Between global and regional

circulation of art the Spring Salon in the 1970s

Abstract

The article aims to present and dicuss the Global Spring Salon (GSS) of 1973 that took place at Brasília and Goiânia. Using documental research, interviews, statements and registries we show which agents and contexts constitute the salon and its inner workings. In this regard, we hold that the GSS contributed to the constitution of a system of arts in the region, inserted within a partnership between State and companies from the communication sector at Brazil’s the Center-West. We thus view the Salon as an event synthomatic of an approchement between the time’s cultural policies, the expansion of the Globo television network at Brasília (1971) and the institucionalization of visual arts at the Center-West. We conclude that the event responds to distinct demands at either city, shaping the Brasília and Goiânia scenes differently.