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As the celebrations for the centenary of the Modern Art Week approach, new reflections on the events that took place at the Theatro Municipal de S茫o Paulo in February 1922, as well as on their role in the establishment of modernism in Brazil emerge.

More than proposing an assertive appreciation, the exhibition Modern Where? Modern When? revisits the topic, avoiding ready-made answers, crystallized by the mainstream voices.

Could it be that the Modern Art Week was a watershed between the old and the new, between old academic styles and modern practices? If we look carefully into the artistic, musical, architectural, and literary production that precedes the Week 鈥� also in places other than S茫o Paulo 鈥� we find countless hints that the Week is part of a broad, discontinuous process that transcends it, both temporally and territorially.

This exhibition brings together paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographs that express an innovative intention 鈥� in terms of composition, facture, or selected topic 鈥� regardless of the date and place of their production. Modern Where? Modern When? aims to present not only artists and works that took part in the event at the Theatro Municipal 鈥� not just as modern as one would dream of 鈥� but also pieces produced by artists who preceded and/or succeeded them, amid Brazil鈥檚 always-complex political and cultural confluence.