Declarations What was said About Bardi "I remember the day I visited MASP and, with joy, still there, I wrote a message to Lina, full of excitement: 'it's the most beautiful museum I've ever been to'. And, behind all that, encouraging her, was, undoubtedly, Pietro Maria Bardi who contributed so much for the progress of Brazilian painting and sculpture, looking with eyes from the heart their evolution, without playing the "radical" or the "tendency owner", with the conscience that, between a Picasso painting and a Matisse one, there is the common trace of the beauty" Oscar Niemeyer, part of an article published in "Folha de São Paulo", section Tendências/Debates, on Octorber 12nd, 1990 "Bardi opposes to the neoclassic of Muzio, the rationalism of his friends, [...] but also opposes to the politics of the "palazzi" (palaces), the towers, the expenses of representation, a great public expense to the popular houses and their services". From"P.M.Bardi", written by Francesco Tentori, Instituto Lina Bo e P. M. Bardi/Imprensa Oficial do Estado de S.P., 2000. De P. M. Bardi sobre Assis Chateubriand "He used to dress as a cowboy, he used to ride a mule dressed with an academic uniform to enter a masked ball of Jacques Fath, and he dressed with the uniform of colonel of the military police of Minas Gerais and transited by the streets with his posh Rolls Royce. However, at a certain time, in the middle of the night, he retired to his lonely office, not to invent newspaper articles, but well elaborated programs, draw political lines, economical, educational, moral ones [...] We made the museum together; but it was possible only because Chateaubriand invented a technique of "squeezing" the inflation producers, took of them a million cruzeiros and exchanged that amount for a billion in promotions, in help, in political favors [...]. If the "Museu de Arte de São Paulo" exists, that is due to this builder of the future of Brazil..." Interview given to Claudio M. Valentinetti, 1996

P.M. Bardi in New York Personal file