grass, earth, plastic cups (approximately 11.000)


Museum:observatory is a project that brings together three interventions in the architectural space of Museu da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG. This set of works promotes relations between the landscape and the museum spaces, giving the architecture a permeability that transforms it into an observation point.

Nature of Landscape consists of a live grass plan that crosses the base of the building and dissolves in the interior space sprayed in small vases on the ground. In the passage between outer and inner spaces, provided by continuous grass plan, nature invades as a living element, at the same time as spraying the grass borders exposes the landscape itself as a conceptual construction.



“The combination of garden and artwork forcibly brings together different universes of thought. Crisscrossing of various fields of knowledge can take place within the garden-artwork. Nature and culture come closer, as well as indoors and unexpected outdoors, artist and scientist, assembly team, termites, ticks and capybaras. A certain scientism overhangs the exhibit, but in an astonishing way: creating a scientific language that can be freely and directly accessed, rather than a dialect that is merely accessible, allowing an immediate experience of fascination and adherence. Eduardo Coimbra’s work offers an in situ formulation of knowledge concerning the landscape concept. What interests here is not only the artistic and critical formalization of the geographic theory, but also the exchange of such knowledge.” (Renata Marquez)

“Transposed into the museum, the lawn finds itself in a controlled environment, completely scientific, naturally artistic. This place incites the garden contemplation and the artwork contemplation, proving that – yes, just like an empirical study! – this is not a passive act, but rather a result of each one’s individual performance. While the landscape is a creation of beings who can see, it is, however, a meta-optical unfolding of the retina, not only an ability of those who see, but an instrument of those who imagine.” (R. M.)