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This work, one of the largest in Latin America, with the longest time being built, is a sad example of the lack of continuity of public policies in favor of culture. In 1974, the National Council of Culture created the National Art Gallery, which began activities in 1976 in what was the Museum of Fine Arts, by Villanueva. During the Pérez government, the institution commissioned the project for its new premises to the authors of Parque Vargas, and a lot north of Avenida Bolívar, on a large block on Parque Vargas between Bolívar and México avenues, was assigned for it. Designed in 1986, it was paralyzed for almost twenty years. In 2006 the work was begun again and in 2009 it was inaugurated with 11,000 of its 27,000 square meters, with the southern areas still pending. The generous building has three bodies: a base with a portico, a triple-height covered gallery, and a rectangular two-story central volume for exhibition halls. In these exhibition space is generated through planes displaying the works, whose setup is clearly solved by the west façade. The project is designed to exhibit works of any type or scale. The Museum, part of Parque Vargas’ system of urban spaces, evokes the Alte Pinakothek in Munich (Von Klenze, 1926), and includes, in front, a courtyard for sculptures and a pond that are not yet constructed.
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