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we could smoke indoors, the video installation by the duo Barbara that multiply and allow the visualization, through a virtual app, of
Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, Bye Bye Germany, a Melody of Life, other openings on the ceiling. Describing here is no easy task, but
does not look out of place. yet again Huyghe creates an unusual environment, surprising and
At the Elephant Lounge, the film about the Schlager, the German unforgettable, what is not common in big shows.
tacky music genre, totally fits the place: exaggerated, romantic, Münster, however, has other complex projects, such as those by
epic. The work produced by the Skulptur Projekte Münster, the British Jeremy Deller in the small gardens, typical spaces in
exhibition which is held every ten years in the small German town, German and Dutch urban centers, usually near roads. For Brazilian
has two local citizens, Stefani Teumer and Markus Sparfedt, as standards, these small spaces, with around 50 m , are far from
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protagonists who interpret famous songs of the genre. being gardens, but what residents can produce in terms of variety
Just as songs of this type are built with nostalgic narratives, this of flowers in these areas is impressive, and taking visitors to these
is the atmosphere of the city which, destroyed during World War areas is a merit in itself.
II, was reconstructed to become “a scenery of itself,” as stated In one complex, ten year ago, Deller started the project Speak to
by Burka in the show’s catalog. the earth and it will tell you, giving blank albums so the “gardeners”
The Skulptur Projekte Münster was originally conceived as a could fill them over time with images documenting the process of
sculpture show in 1977, after a negative reaction of local residents transformation of these small areas, now accessible in one of the
against a George Rickey public work. Because of that, Klauss lands, each one—there are around 50—has a small house where
Bussmann and Kasper König, who acted in all of the five edition the gardening tools are kept.
of the show, organized an exhibit at the town’s museum about the What about sculptures, after all Münster still produces sculptures in
history of sculpture and invited nine artists—mostly Americans—to the traditional sense? Yes, a lot of them. Among them, the Spanish
create works in the urban area. Lara Favaretto continues her series Monumento Momentâneo,
The name Skulptur remained, but the show, on view through comprised of an empty tridimensional work, on which we can insert
10/1, gathers not only tridimensional works, such as the video coins. At the end of the show, the work will be destroyed and the
installation Bye Bye Germany. In this edition, organized by Britta proceedings will be donated to a local NGO that aids deported
Peters and Marianne Wagner in addition to the founder König, immigrants. With this, the artist inverts the normal order of public
three axes make up the selection: body, time and place. With that, monuments, which first seeks financing and then is built.
the exhibition gather many works related to performance, with Among her preferences are from paintings by the modernist
artists such as the French Xavier Le Roy, the Romanian Alexandra Cézanne to the pop George Segal. At last, even tridimensional works
Pirici or the group Ginterdorfer/Klassen, created by the Peruvian escape tradition and seek a connection with the contemporary.
Monika Ginterdorfer and the German Knut Klassen.
Amidst dozens of biennials that have emerged over the last decades, 1 | ABOVE, BYE BYE GERMANY, A MELODY OF LIFE BY BARBARA WAGNER AND BENJAMIN
the Skulptur Projekte stands out not only by their long hiatuses, DE BURCA. BELOW, SKETCH FOR A FOUNTAIN BY NICOLE EISEMMAN. INSTEAD OF HEROES,
but for generating a legacy for the city: since the last edition, 38 ANONYMOUS CHARACTERS REST IN A CITY PARK
permanent public sculptures are scattered around the parks and
the historical center, including such names as Bruce Nauman, Dan 2 | AFTER ALIVE AHEAD, PIERRE HUYGHE. INSTALLATION OF RARE DIMENSION IN
Graham, Marta Rosler, Richard Serra and Rebecca Horn. CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Thus, in addition to contributing with the local art scene, what
many biennials do—for years, the São Paulo Biennial, for instance, ARTS TRIENNIAL SOROCABA | PAGES 26 TO 30
has been forming artists, producers and curators—the Skulptur
Münster constitutes a public collection accessible to the entire THROUGH THE CRACKS OF
population.
to its neighboring country: large two-floor brownstones, canals SOROCABA ARTS
Near the Dutch border, Münster in fact has a very close environment
and bicycles, thousands of bicycles. This, by the way, is the best
way to visit the exhibition, accessible even to those less familiar TRIENNIAL
with the two-wheeled vehicles, since in half an hour we can cycle
across town. EXHIBITION QUESTIONS THE SUSPICIOUS MEDIATIC TRUTHS THAT
Although most of the new works were created for the show, some IGNITE SOCIAL NETWORKS
of them were meant for different contexts, such as Hito Steyerl’s
HellYeahWeFuckDie, produced for the 32nd São Paulo Biennial BY LEONOR AMARANTE
and installed in Münster in the lobby of a large financial company,
with a vast collection of artworks, now accessible thanks to the FRESTAS – TRIENAL DE ARTES is part of the phenomenon of
exhibition. decentralization of art and reinforces its purpose of open space
Among the 35 selected works, however, the most commented is for free expression. Conceived by Sesc Sorocaba, it comes to its
that of French Pierre Huyghe, a complex installation that connects second edition com activist, collaborative and urban works that
an incubator with cancer cells to an aquarium with strange beings, disturb the established order of the city from the state of São
all of that inside an abandoned skating rink, resembling a post- Paulo, situated 90 kilometers off the capital. The 58 contemporary
apocalyptic environment. Just as Huyghe dominated the debate artists from 13 countries confirm the dialectic relationship between
in (d)OCUMENTA 13 with his pink-legged greyhound, After Alive art and social reality, spark local thought and prove that art can
Ahead, the name of his installation, is the cover image to this also be a space for game. There is successive and systematic
edition of Münster. movement in every great show in search of what is new, and
Averse to interviews, not even in the catalog the artist provides it comes across with antagonistic forces between rupture and
hints on his work, including only schemes of how the elements continuity. The curator Daniela Labra gets the theme Entre Pós-
interact in the installation: parts of the ceiling that open with Verdades e Acontecimento [Between Post-Truths and Event] right
sunlight that shines and makes the aquarium transparent, allowing by questioning the suspicious mediatic truths that ignite social
the observation of corals and beings existing there, to cancer cells networks.

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