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6th Curitiba Biennial |
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Already two years ago, the exhibition VentoSul - which since its start in 1993 until 2007 had been focused mainly on the art of Latin America - expanded its perspective to include art from all continents. This expansion has determined the renaming of the event into International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Curitiba. Alfons Hug and Ticio Escobar are in charge of this 6th edition as general curators, accompanied by Adriana Almada and Paz Guevara as co-curators, and Alberto Saraiva, Artur Freitas, Eliane Prolik and Simone Landal as guest curators. The team is completed by the curators Denise Bandeira and Sonia Tramujas, who have been specially appointed for the educational project. The general curators develop their curatorial approach under the title "Beyond the Crisis". In their curatorial text the point of departure for their reflections is the analysis of the origin of the word "crisis", which is "omnipresent as a background noise" these days, dominating every discourse. "Art operates both inside and outside the crisis. Inside because it refers to it formally and conceptually, and outside, because it transcends the crisis and offers alternatives to society. ... The word 'crisis' is used here in its most evocative sense, as the crucial moment in which a sudden change of paradigms requires new decisions, positions and new images. The term 'beyond' does not exactly mean 'after'; it points rather to an intermediate area, an unfolding or a third place from where one can see the crisis from the inside/outside. ... Art faces crisis by constantly questioning its own representation systems, discussing once and again the definition of art and its institutional circuits (museums, markets, biennials, theories, etc.). From this standpoint crises are productive, because art necessarily depends on moments of conflict and tension. Precisely, art is one of the main devices with which contemporary culture can count on to put under questioning its own statements, to renew its values and codes and to prevent the collective perception from accepting a fixed concept of the social." (Quotes from the >> curatorial text) Exhibition venues From 18 September until 20 November 72 participants (see the list of artists) will present their works at the following venues in Curitiba:
Museu Oscar Niemeyer
Museu da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba
Museu da Fotografia Cidade de Curitiba
Casa Andrade Muricy (CAM)
Museu Alfredo Andersen
Galeria Júlio Moreira
Cineplex Batel
Galeria APAP Public space Organizer: Instituto Paranaense de Arte
Al. Dr. Carlos de Carvalho, 655 – Centro
Tel.: +55 41 3223-8424
Email: ipar@ipar.org.br
Luciana Casagrande Pereira
Luiz Ernesto Meyer Pereira
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Website of the Curitiba Biennial:
In cooperation with the See also: Brazil - Index of artists Brazil - Curators
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