MAB – Brazilian Art Museum presents, as from November 30th, the 41st Annual of Art FAAP, which includes contemporary artistic proposals developed by students from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado.
With approximately 300 pieces of arts enrolled, the exhibit features installations, prints, paintings, drawings, photographs, collages, videos, among other forms of expression which were selected by a committee of renowned arts professionals, curators and historians.
Every year, an artist is invited to attend the Annual of Art and, this year, will be the turn of Marina Ayra, who is graduated in Architecture and Urbanism at FAAP. The artist will present the works that were made in the period she spent in Cité des Arts, the Art Residency Program that FAAP maintains since 1997, in Paris. Her project in visual-poetic paintings and drawings is based around the issues of landscape and city. It is included in the exhibition procedural documents and material produced over the research developed by the artist, during the six months she was in the residence.
Since 1964, FAAP Annual of Art reveals artists and innovate the concept of contemporary art and creativity throughout its five decades of existence. Its goal is to encourage artistic production of the students, and create a space for reflection of new ideas and perceptions about art, taking education as a tool and interface.

History
 
In 2008, an exhibition was held to commemorate the 40th edition of the Annual of Art and the 10-year program of the FAAP Art Residency with the Cité des Arts, in Paris. The historical section of the 40 editions of the Annual of Art included catalogs, posters, record books, registration forms and information about the exhibition over the past five decades (from 1964 to 2008), which registered the presence of the participated and awarded students, committees of selection and artists and honored guests.
At the exhibition, a space to tell the 10 years of the partnership between the FAAP and the Cité des Arts was created, with the video testimonials of the first twenty artists who, for six months, worked in the studio maintained by the Foundation in the French Capital, at the banks of the Seine River. Dora Longo Bahia, Caetano de Almeida, Cláudio Mubarac, Sandra Cinto, Maria Teresa Louro, Flávio Matangrano, Jairo Ramos, Marcela Tiboni, Lia Chaia, Fabio Faria, Marcius Gallan and Adriana Guiver, among others, were the artists who have shared their experiences .