FPM #1 - Works from the collection of the PLMJ Foundation

Synopsis

The FPM #1 exhibition is, by definition, the first in a series of exhibitions and events that will be held from now on at the headquarters of the PLMJ Foundation and its founding organisation, PLMJ - Advogados, SP, RL. The exhibition gallery is located on the 14th floor of Edifício Fontes Pereira de Melo 41 (FPM 41). The gallery is the heir to a line of thinking about exhibition space, as architect Ricardo Bak Gordon says in his book on the FPM 41 building project: “We reserved a 40-metre-long gallery space as an arrival area on the 14th floor, where we offered two very different things as references: the Fortuny Palace in Venice and the MASP gallery (São Paulo Museum of Modern Art) by Lina Bo Bardi.

Our imagination was between these two things, on the one hand a celebration of comfort and elegance, of having arrived in an exceptional place, and at the same time revealing the collection in a surprising way, escaping the painting on the wall and proposing a visit to what could be a museum reserve.” The relationship between spaces where the public and the private meet is proposed in this book about the installation of the collection on the six floors where the offices of PLMJ - Advogados, SP, RL are located, as well as on the ground floor, in the reception area and in the auditorium, where João Pedro Vale's sculpture Blindness is located, which was part of the former reception area of the building on Avenida da Liberdade.

The reception area, which is open to the public, looks out onto Avenida Fontes de Pereira de Melo through large glass walls, allowing people to share and observe the works installed there by artists Ana Vidigal, Adriana Molder, Cristina Ataíde and Miguel Ângelo Rocha. The FPM#1 exhibition is a starting point for thinking about and working with the collection in a new spatial and architectural context: the FPM 41 building.

Curator

João Silvério