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Diogo de Macedo, Director do Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea: Pioneirismo e Herança na redefinição do conceito de Museu de Arte
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Diogo de Macedo (1889-1959) assume a direcção do Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (MNAC) em 1 de Julho de 1944, sendo, nos 33 anos de existência do museu, o primeiro escultor a ocupar este cargo. A sua actividade desenvolve-se entre 1944 e 1959, articulando e contextualizando a intervenção no museu com as suas convicções culturais e estéticas, evidenciadas numa intensa actividade como crítico e historiador da arte.
Pretende-se interpretar o projecto delineado pelo escultor Diogo de Macedo para o MNAC, analisando o seu pioneirismo, destacando os aspectos mais inovadores, as fragilidades e os fracassos da sua acção de valorização do espaço expositivo, de estudo e divulgação das colecções, de reorganização do percurso museográfico e de constituição de um acervo representativo da arte contemporânea. Esta função é compreendida em necessária articulação, e contextualização, com o percurso biográfico de Macedo, com a sua obra escultórica e com a sua actividade de crítico, ensaísta e historiador.
Pretende-se, ainda, demonstrar que Diogo de Macedo cria um programa museológico para o museu, com um projecto específico que relaciona investigação científica sobre a colecção e divulgação da arte, com o desígnio da construção de uma identidade institucional e científica para o MNAC, no panorama da cultura portuguesa da primeira metade do século XX.
Diogo de Macedo (1889-1959) took over as director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) on July 1, 1944. He was first sculptor on this role during the the first museum’s 33-year life. Between 1944 and 1959, he articulated and contextualized his work as director of the museum according to his own cultural and aesthetic convictions, based on his work as critic and art historian. The purpose of this study is to interpret the project designed by the sculptor Diogo de Macedo for MNAC, analysing his pioneering work and highlighting the most innovative aspects of his work, the weaknesses and failures of his action to enhance the exhibition space, study and dissemination of the collections, reorganization the journey in the museum context and the constitution of a collection representative of contemporary art. This analysis is complete alongside articulating and contextualizing his biography, while looking into his sculptural work as well as his activity as a critic, essayist and historian. Moreover, the intent is to demonstrate that Diogo de Macedo created an original museological program for MNAC that combined scientific research about the collection with the creation of strategies that promote and spread art and created a cultural and scientific identity for MNAC within the outlook of the Portuguese culture of the first half of the twentieth century.
Diogo de Macedo (1889-1959) took over as director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) on July 1, 1944. He was first sculptor on this role during the the first museum’s 33-year life. Between 1944 and 1959, he articulated and contextualized his work as director of the museum according to his own cultural and aesthetic convictions, based on his work as critic and art historian. The purpose of this study is to interpret the project designed by the sculptor Diogo de Macedo for MNAC, analysing his pioneering work and highlighting the most innovative aspects of his work, the weaknesses and failures of his action to enhance the exhibition space, study and dissemination of the collections, reorganization the journey in the museum context and the constitution of a collection representative of contemporary art. This analysis is complete alongside articulating and contextualizing his biography, while looking into his sculptural work as well as his activity as a critic, essayist and historian. Moreover, the intent is to demonstrate that Diogo de Macedo created an original museological program for MNAC that combined scientific research about the collection with the creation of strategies that promote and spread art and created a cultural and scientific identity for MNAC within the outlook of the Portuguese culture of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Diogo de Macedo Escultura em Portugal Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea Museus em Portugal Direcção-Geral do Ensino Superior e das Belas-Artes, Ocidente Revista Portuguesa Mensal Museums in Portugal Sculpture in Portugal National Museum of Contemporary Art