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window with several pieces of pottery sicilian lemons at one of the nurseries. CONTEMPORARY ART has always established links with other areas, just
However, is that friction between the city, their locations and the interventions of remembering Beuys and the ecological issue in the 1970s, for example, or even the
the artists that Manifesta in fact takes place and one of the best examples of this therapeutic practices developed by Lygia Clark, in the same period.
were the processions that ocurred in the opening week. They took place inspired In recent years, however, such an approach has indeed created very close
by dozens of religious festivities that occur throughout the year in Palermo,
including the patron saint of the city, Santa Rosalia, one of the landmarks of the relationships, such as the research agency Forensic Architecture, based at the
Sicilian culture explored by Coppola in the movies “The Godfather”, a reference University of London, which is one of the candidates for the Turner Prize organized
impossible to avoid. by Tate this year.
Nigerian Jelili Atiku, Italian Matilde Cassani and Italian duo Masbedo used the streets The group has developed pioneering methods of spatial investigations of public
of Palermo, each one to your way, creating situations that simulated processions and corporate violations around the world. In Brazil, the artist and curator Paulo
and festivities. In the case of Atiku, Festino della Terra mixed the celebrations of Tavares was part of the English agency, but since last year he created the agency
Santa Rosalia with old archetypes of Iorubá culture of green men. Cassani occupied Autônoma, a platform dedicated to research and spatial intervention.
the more sumptuous crossroads of the town, Quattro Canti, with an action called The V ARTE!Brasileiros International Seminar will be holding as theme “ART beyond
Tutto, throwing thousands of colorful papers in the place, a reference to the Baroque
tradition of the city. These works are part of the City on Stage. ART” to chart works, projects, institutions and even exhibitions that work in a
COUP border field between art and non-art. Tavares will be one of the participants in the
The most forceful art works in Manifesta are part of section named Uncontroled second panel in the afternoon, taking on the dimension of architecture / visual
Room, an explicit irony to the term Control Room, and artists such as Cuban Tania cultures advocacy in the Latin American context. He is currently the co-curator of
Bruguera, the French Kater Attia, the Turkish Erkan Özgen, the Dutch Patricia the Chicago Architecture Biennial, which takes place in 2019.
Kaersenhout and the Italian Filippo Minelli, among others, give a political tone to At the same table, will be present the curator of the 33rd São Paulo Biennial,
the show, to portray contemporary dramas. Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, showing his proposal; the director of the Museum of
These artists are divided into two palaces: Ajutamicristo and Forcella de Setta, both
examples of a sumptuous Palermo from 18th and 19th centuries but decaying after Antioquia, Nydia Gutierrez, who developed a fierce defense of the programming
the period that the mafia dominated the city throughout the 20th century. This of the Museum during years of struggle between FARC and the government, and
state of almost ruin was the scene for the play “Palermo, Palermo”, the German Anneliek Sijbrandij, founder of The Verbier Art Summit, in Switzerland, created
choreographer Pina Bausch has created in the city, in 1989. to bring together artists and academics annually and make critical reflections on
In the Palazzo Ajutamicristo, Bruguera makes an installation in collaboration with the political and social responsibility of the art universe.
No Muos, a movement contrary to the system called Mobile User Objective System AGAIN
(MUOS), used by an American base that controls drones to military uses and The seminar will open at 9h30 am with the exhibition of “Again / Noch einmal”
whose satellite dishes are harmful to the inhabitants of Niscemi, the Sicilian town
where they are installed. The installation is a kind of compilation of the materials (De Novo), by the German artist Mario Pfeiffer, commissioned by the 10th Berlin
produced by the Italian militants against the MUOS. The American artist Laura Biennale, currently taking place in Germany. The video uses strategies close to
Poitras also deals with the same theme, showing in a projection the region where those developed by the Forensic Architecture in reenacting a case of extreme
satellite dishes are installed violence and prejudice against immigrants in Germany two years ago, recreating
Özgen displays “Purple Muslim”, an installation created in collaboration with refugees a popular jury that analyzes the case. Pfeiffer comes to São Paulo to speack about
on the impact of war on women fleeing from conflict zones, a documentary that his work at the beginning of the seminar.
portrays the traumas of violence from sensitive accounts. In the first panel of the morning, guests will debate Geopolitics and Art: the
Finally Minelli hung at the Palazzo Ajutamicristo dozens of flags of protest from
various sources, among them a green and yellow with the word coup highlighted. sociologist and director of the National University of Tres de Frebrero, in Buenos
Contemporary and aware of local issues that deserve global attention, the Aires, and director of BIENALSUR, Aníbal Jozami; the adjunct diretor of Museo
Manifesta12 is a vibrant issue, which explores Palermo in a respectful way at the Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, João Fernandes; the Chilean artist Voluspa
same time that reveals not visitable spaces until then, filled with urgent content Jarpa and the art historian, artistic director of BIENALSUR and director of the
and impact. cultural área of UNTREF, Diana Weschler.
The journalist Fabio Cypriano stayed in Palermo at the Manifesta invitation. The 12th edition of Manifesta, the European itinerant biennial is taking place in
Palermo, Italy, at the invitation of the mayor of the city, Leoluca Orlando, who
SEMINAR V INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ART! BRAZILIANS ART
BEYOND ART | PAGES 30 AND 31 has been marking his current management for supporting art as form of social
V ARTE!BRASILEIROS transformation. Palermo is now in 2018 the cultural capital of Italy. “A decade ago,
I’m sure it would not be possible to organize a cultural event the size of Manifesta
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR here in Palermo. Violence and the mafia would not tolerate it”, said Orlando at
DEBATES THE LIMITS OF ART the opening of the show two months ago. In his fifth non-consecutive term in the
city, he is one of the responsible for the transformation of the capital of Sicily.
Unable to attend the seminar in person, he sends an exclusive testimony that will
ON SEPTEMBER 6, IN THE OPENING WEEK OF THE BIENNIAL, IN THE AUDITORIUM OF
IBIRAPUERA, IT WILL BE HAPPENING THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL ARTE!BRASILEIROS be displayed during the Geopolitical and Art panel.
MEETING, THAT IS USUALLY HELD EVERY TWO YEARS, UPDATING TRENDS AND To conclude the Seminar, curators and Chairmen of the Montblanc Cultural
PRESENTING THE BEST IN INTERNATIONAL ARTISTIC PRODUCTION. Foundation offer the Montblanc of Culture Arts Patronage Award to JAMAC
(Jardim Miriam Art Club) and the artist responsible for its creation and management
BY FABIO CYPRIANO Monica Nador.

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