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NEW CURATOR FOR RIO DE JANEIRO’S MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

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ROBERT IRWIN (1928–2023)

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February 11, 2016 9:33 am

According to Artnexus, the Museo de Arte moderno in Rio de Janeiro has a new curator of visual arts: Fernando Cocchiarale. A professor of aesthetics in the philosophy department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Cocchiarale had previously taught at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage for over twenty years.

A former curator of the Rumos: Itaú Cultural program, he has served as visual arts coordinator of Funarte, and has authored hundreds of articles and several books, including Abstracionismos Geométrico e Informal, Funarte, Rio de Janeiro_ (1987), with Anna Bella Geiger.

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