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BIENNIALS BIENALSUR | PAGES 14 TO 17 and lectures: Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Timoteo Navarro, MUNT - Museum of
BIENALSUR SETS OUT the National University of Tucumán "Juan B. Terán" and Juan B. Terán Cultural Center.
The highlight is for the exhibition Entre sentidos, in MUNT, which has work by Brazilian
URGENT QUESTIONS IN artist Chiara Banfi. In June, the first city to receive exhibitions linked to the biennial was

ITS SECOND EDITION Rosario. One of the highlights is the exhibition Dos museos y un río, held on the first
day at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rosario (Macro). Composed of collections
from the Castagnino and Macro museums, it promotes dialogue between the works
INAUGURATED IN THE MOST SOUTHERN PROVINCE OF THE WORLD, THIS of an institution of modern art and a contemporary art institution. The objective is
BIENNIAL GROWS AND RISES VOICES AROUND THE WORLD to produce short circuits and synergies capable of intensifying the meaning of the
works exposed and provoking new lines of meaning. BIENALSUR will officially open
BY JAMYLE RKAIN AND PATRICIA ROUSSEAUX in the city of Buenos Aires on Saturday, June 22, with a marathon of presentations
throughout the week, occupying the main museums and institutions. In MUNTREF,
BIENALSUR'S SECOND EDITION, which has as its proposal to expand to several cities in Art and Nature Center - Scope Ecoparque, it will be possible to visit Salt Flower, an
the world, was inaugurated in Argentina on May 19 and 20, specifically in two cities exhibition by Japanese artist Makoto Azuma, the first artist to propose to send a
of Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia and Rio Grande. In addition to exhibitions and other bonsai to space. Curated by Marcello Dantas, Brazilian cultural producer and curator,
activities in the host cities, the biennial will also have more than 100 exhibitions linked the exhibition brings together works that investigate the life cycle of flowers when
to the event in 20 countries, which will include 400 artists from all over the world placed in places that are foreign to their nature. In the words of Dantas, collaborator
until November. The project considers culture as a vehicle for integration between of this initiative: "The opportunity presented in these expositions is to question the
countries. To connect all its spaces it proposes an unpublished cartography, that circumstances of the times we live in and our ability to respond with new ideas to the
eliminates borders and coexists with artists, between the local and the global. It foundations of our civilization. Faith in creativity, responsibility in the hands of citizens,
symbolically places the MUNTREF Hotel de Imigrantes in the port of Buenos Aires as respect for diversity and harmonization with our relationship with the environment”.
kilometre zero and from there every other participating seat is categorized with a On June 23, the Pistoletto Circuit will begin, in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in
number of kilometers that establishes the bases of this unique geography and that this Buenos Aires, within the framework of the Italian Ingenio cycle. A well-known creator
year arrives in the city of Tokyo, in Japan, baptized as KM 18,370. Thus, the biennial of Arte Póvera, who won a very important presentation at the Venice Biennale in 2017,
is organized and implemented in the territory through exhibitions that fall into six in the Basilica di San Giorgio, Michelangelo Pistoletto will have activities dedicated to
major curatorial axes and estabilishes coherence and meaning to all of its mapping: him, starting at the National Museum of Decorative Art, then going to the National
Sex, Transits and Migration, Art and the Public Space, Ways of Seeing, Memories and Museum of Fine Arts and to the former Immigrant Hotel of MUNTREF - and ends in
oblivion, art and science / art and nature, which will help the viewer to design their the traditional neighborhood of La Boca, at the Benito Quinquela Martín Museum,
own circuit based on their interests. with the Segno Arte and Terzo Paradiso facilities. Works and artists from several
For Aníbal Jozami, general director of BIENALSUR and dean of the National University of countries will be pressnted until November 2019.
Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), in this edition the province's choice to host the inauguration
was important because it was "in the South of the South". With this, Jozami wants to PROJECT NUM
emphasize something more than just a geographical reality. The project advocates This edition emphasizes Project NUM, a group of feminist artists, managers and writers
looking at the world from a new global perspective, which is opposed to traditional who compiled a documentary book about the creative impulses generated around
Eurocentric - or "North". Diana Wechsler, curator and artistic-academic director of the national mobilizations originally led by the #NiUnaMenos movement. The project
BIENALSUR, explains that Tierra del Fuego's choice is deeply symbolic, "because it occupies the Center for Contemporary Expressions in Rosario. The exhibition, titled,
allows us to advance in the design of possible new artistic routes, to reconfigure the Recuperemos la imaginación para cambiar la historia (Let us recover the imagination
existing cartography and to point to new, unprecedented, simultaneous forms, frontiers to change history), proposes to be "a living archive, in constant movement, that
capable of expanding its own limits”. The opening ceremony in Ushuaia was attended relates very contemporary works, created in the heat of feminist action, which not
by artists Voluspa Jarpa (Chile), Magdalena Jitrik (Argentina), Christian Boltanski only denounce cis-straightnorma (part of our system), but they enable alternatives
(France) and Mariana Telleria (Argentina). The installation, entitled Banderas del fin and re-readings”. Another proposal that also highlights women's empowerment was
del mundo, is an allusion to the nickname given to the city, "the city of the end of the inaugurated in Tucumán the last weekend of May, the Heroínas show, with works that
world", because it is located at the southern end of the globe. At this gathering, the include historical photographs of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
artists developed banners that accompany Boltanski's Draw me the flag project for Check out an interview with Mai Lumi, member of the collective that realizes Project
the Cartier Foundation in Paris. Accompanies the installation of a musical project of NUM:
OIANT (Orchestra of native instruments and new technologies of UNTREF). At the ARTE!Brasileiros: When did the project start? How is it organized?
time, Jozami stated that BIENALSUR "was born to change the central currents of Mai Lumi: Project NUM is a collective and documentary archive that captures the
culture, to influence them with the thinking of the South”. creative impulses generated and continues to generate the first #NiUnaMenos, on
Also among the initial activities in the Fueguino Museum of Art - Yaganes Cultural June 3, 2015. We are Nina Kunan, Lucia Reissig, Laura Harness, Eugenia Salama and
Center - in the city of Rio Grande, three exhibitions took place: two individual ones - Mai Lumi, and we work on the project since the middle of 2015. We are selfconvocated
Gustavo Groh's El agua que apagó el fuego, and Esteban Álvarez’s Dos, tres, muchas, with the specific idea of capturing this content in a book, to give space to the creations

both Argentines - and a group show – Paisages entre paisages. In the group one, made born of our subjectivities in this context.
up exclusively of works by female artists, three Brazilian women participated: Berna How did you decide to work artistically the issues of NiUnaMenos movement?
Reale, Lia Chaia and Dora Longo Bahia, as well as Carla Zaccagnini, an Argentine We realized that the context of socio-political urgency challenged us individually
based in Brazil. Paisages entre paisajes shows "how the landscape is a topic that and collectively and that demonstrations emerged beyond militancy itself. It was
stimulated travel and fantasies; as it has caught the attention of scientists, writers and inevitable not to see how the streets and social networks were full of content. Our
visual artists throughout history and how this gives the possibility of capturing the mission was to condense and archive these works without hierarchies. The Ni Una
immensity of nature”. In Tucumán, northwestern Argentina, between Chile, Bolivia and Menos movement constitutes a politically bigger experience than we did in Project
Paraguay, three institutions of the province hosted exhibitions, actions, interventions NUM. The idea of working with the feminist problem arises, in the beginning, from

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