Roberto Burle Marx

The Fundación Juan March is devoting an exhibition to the Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, featuring landscape projects, paintings, tapestries and pre-Columbian and folk art pieces that showcase his work.

The exhibition brings together a large part of Burle Marx's landscape projects, presented as case studies that allow visitors to follow his working method and the scale of his interventions. The material on display includes sketches, plans, models, still images and audiovisual pieces, alongside a selection of his paintings, sculptures, tiles, tapestries, jewellery and stage designs.

Co-organised with the Zentrum Paul Klee, with the collaboration of the Instituto Burle Marx and the support of the Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, the project places the artist within the panorama of international modernism and highlights his interdisciplinary profile. Burle Marx, born in São Paulo in 1909 and died in Rio de Janeiro in 1994, championed social and ecological causes from an early stage, an interest that runs through his work.

The itinerary is completed by works by international authors who influenced him and whom he admired, as well as pieces of pre-Columbian ceramics, religious imagery and folk art that form part of his own collection. These pieces help to understand the cultural richness present in his gardens and landscapes.