Signature · Interiors · São Paulo
Denise Mattar
A leading art curator in Brazil — the signature that turns a lobby into a collection.
Who she is
Denise Mattar (São Paulo, 1948) is one of Brazil’s most respected visual arts curators. She was curator at the Museu da Casa Brasileira (1985–87), MAM-SP (1987–89) and MAM-Rio (1990–97). As an independent curator, she organised landmark retrospectives of Di Cavalcanti, Flávio de Carvalho, Ismael Nery, Anita Malfatti, Pancetti and Frans Krajcberg, among others, earning APCA and ABCA awards. Caveat: she is not, strictly speaking, an interior decorator/designer, but an art curator — filed here under the closest available type (Decorator) for her work curating art/ambience in developments.
Signature
- Language: curation of modern and contemporary Brazilian art with high critical rigour.
- Signature: turning the space into a collection; art as an asset of the development.
Landmark works
- Retrospectives of Di Cavalcanti, Anita Malfatti, Ismael Nery, Flávio de Carvalho
- Art curation for Bueno Brandão 257
Signatures in the portfolio
No development in the collection carries this signature yet — it is here for the weight of the name in São Paulo's high end.
