In 2003, 40 years later, the exhibition once again transformed Praça Paris into an open-air museum, bringing art closer to the public and celebrating the city’s public spaces. The show featured monumental works by renowned Brazilian contemporary artists, showcasing different generations and styles of modern and contemporary sculpture. Visitors could stroll through the classical gardens and discover impressive pieces that created a unique dialogue between art, landscape, and architecture.

The grandeur and delicacy of the works required a logistics operation to match. The responsibility of transporting and handling each sculpture was entrusted to FINK Mobility, Brazil’s benchmark in specialized art-handling services. Many of the pieces, besides being enormous and heavy, featured fragile geometries and surfaces, requiring meticulous technical planning, special equipment, and highly trained teams. The challenge went beyond ensuring the physical integrity of the sculptures during transport; it also required precision, respecting the artistic concept and ensuring public safety. With its century-long expertise and cutting-edge technology, FINK once again demonstrated its ability to transform a complex job into a flawless operation, seamlessly integrating art and city with excellence.

The exhibition was widely praised by the public and critics alike, as an example of how art can revitalize and add meaning to the urban experience, while also paying tribute to the history and cultural heritage of Rio de Janeiro.

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Throughout the last hundred years, the structure of the displacement of people within their towns has changed profoundly, for several reasons. This has led countries to make decisions with regard to the models of urban mobility to be used in their main centers.

Evidently, this has impacted the culture of these places, and it is important for potential expatriates to know the reality that they may be facing in the future. This is a way of avoiding unnecessarily abrupt surprises or adaptations with regard to the country they move to.

In the first half of the 20th century, first world countries were able to urbanize their major centers thinking of the private automobile as the main means of the population’s transport. A great majority of European capitals and all the North American big cities were greatly influenced by cars for a time.

However, due to the inefficiency of that model, not only in terms of mobility, but also of sustainability, there was a readjustment, mainly in European countries, of the transportation structure. Investments in collective transport, such as trains, bus lines, and non-polluting private transports, such as bicycles, have become the main solution since the 70’s.

Private cars have lost space in daily life, suffering, in many cases, loss of incentives for production, and taxation for their contribution to the emission of pollutants into the atmosphere. Thus, Europe as a whole, in its main centers, has adapted to the model of collective transport as the best solution for urban displacements. 

In the USA, however, it was a different story. The urbanization of major cities was also done with great importance attached to private vehicles. However, they opted to maintain that model. Thus, the main North American centers, even the regional ones, are centered on circulation with private cars. This justifies, for instance, the whole structure of suburban life in American towns, where cars are vastly used for any type of mundane tasks.

The economic relationship is also different. The financing of cars, as well as consumption of fuel, is accessible and encouraged by the market. Thus, historically, it is implied in American life that cars are essential displacement tools.

Environmental movements have sought to change this perception in the USA. They propose solutions of collective transport as a way to reduce the massive consumption of fuel by the country’s population. However, these changes are slow, and will take time to be finally achieved.

Having deep knowledge of one’s new country is a very important aspect when planning a move. FINK will help you to structure a plan for what is so important in anyone’s life.

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Culture is a fundamental part in the intellectual formation of any Brazilian citizen. We, at FINK, put great value in the development of a culturally rich and diverse ambiance. This creates a society with a sophisticated and critical debate, while never losing its cultural and social aspects.

To this end, we always try to create this ambiance, whether in school activities that involve children, or by stimulating the market. We worked for the production and publication of the book Entre laços e sapatos (Between Ribbons and Shoes, in a free translation), through an agreement with Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall. The book is about two friends who are separated by different social classes, and later by the passage of time, but who never lose their friendly relationship.

This work is within a context of several other activities performed by FINK, which aim to develop good community work, be it on social or environmental terms. Every passing day makes this concern from private sector institutions more and more urgent. We must concern ourselves with the world we live in.

Activities for education and for the development of the community are priorities for FINK. Learn about these and other guidelines of our policy of social and environmental responsibilities.

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