Lina Bo Bardi born in Rome in 1914

From June to November 2014, the Johann Jacobs Museum is focusing its attention on Italian/Brazilian designer and architect Lina Bo Bardi.

Opening June 13 , 2014. Doors open 6 pm

Exhibition

7.30 pm Introductory discussion about Lina Bo Bardi's legacy with Silvana Rubino (Professor of Anthropology, University of Campinas), Martin Grossmann (Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo) and Roger M. Buergel (Director of the Johann Jacobs Museum).

A series of exhibitions will recall and examine Bo Bardi's growth and development from the 1950s in Brazil's African-influenced North East, a culture that was initially alien to her. We will document Bo Bardi's voyages of exploration to the edges of perception together with her attempts, using the most rudimentary objects (kitchen implements, tools and cult items) provided by a bitterly poor culture, to extract a picture of the society and the possibilities it opened up for emancipation.

Bo Bardi channelled her commitment to the North East into the Museum of Popular Art in Salvador, which opened in 1963, but which the military dictatorship closed down only six months later. The former collection of the Museu de Arte Popular in Salvador da Bahia will be reassembled in Zurich, but not on a one-to-one basis.
The Johann Jacobs Museum aims to express Bo Bardi’s understanding of the museum as a crucible for modernization from the bottom up in the form of a cabinet of wonders and a learning lab.