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ENGLISH VERSION BACK TO THE NATURE

EDITORIAL [pAgE 08]
We also portray innovation in movement, tadeu chIarellI is a curator and art critic. He
ART AS ESSENCE in color, the search for new supports, is a full professor in the Visual Arts course at
experimentation, research of materials and USp. He was director of the Pinacoteca de São
stories. Paulo and the Museum of Contemporary Art
I am wrItIng thIs text In the mIdst of To this end, we invested in a contemporary at USp (MAC-USp). He has also worked as chief
the IsolatIon we have been subjected to digital art and culture platform, capable of curator of the Museum of Modern Art of São
in the past few days by the pandemic that has speaking both to academia and the market. Paulo (MAM-Sp). Chiarelli is also a columnist on
plagued our planet, to a greater or lesser extent, We created a huge network of national and ARTE!BRASILEIROS website.
in most countries. international collaborators and our seminars
In Italy, where until now we rarely commented brought together interlocutors from several BIENNIALS: SãO pAULO [pAgES 10 TO 14]
on the exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, countries.
approximately 12 thousand citizens died in We got here with a positive balance. More A VERY INTIMATE
the last 30 days. We all watched in horror the than a thousand subscribers to the printed
international scenes, typical of science fiction magazine, close to 50 thousand organic and EXERCISE
films. We read and heard daily a plethora of data loyal followers on Instagram, in addition to
and information about an unknown scourge, a network of relationships and readers that The curators of the 34th Biennial explain
the COVID-19, which only comes close to the surrounds around 80 thousand on the www. the project of the event, which unfolds in
Black Death, in the Middle Ages, or the Flu artebrasileiros.com.br portal time and space
Spanish, before World War I. Today and here, This year, if we manage to win COVID-19 and
we are trying to minimize the numbers of human its aftermath, we will hold our VI International By MARIA HIRSzMAN
losses in Brazil, collaborating with a quarantine Seminar, scheduled for early October. under the tItle Faz escuro mas eu canto
that allows the least amount of infected people. This edition, which brings a new graphic (it’s dark but I sing), the 34th São Paulo Biennial
We are perplexed in our fragility to the project, specially commis sioned to the team kicked off on February 8, with the opening of
cracks in an economic and political system of designers at Alles Blau Studio, had the ability the exhibition by Ximena Garrido-Lecca and the
that cannot be sustained when it comes to to adapt to the difficulties of the moment. The performance by Neo Muyanga and attended
serving human beings equally. Who until a work with the teams in the home-office, their by an audience of almost 1, 8 thousand people.
few days ago defended the minimum state, interviews and reports, showed a very high This anticipation of the agenda not only puts
today recognizes in the Unified Public Health degree of collaboration and competence on the into practice the desire - often stated in past
System (SUS) the only way out of crises of this part of everyone involved. Most of the texts were editions, but rarely conquered - to extend the
magnitude. Scientists who at the beginning produced before the several postponements temporal reach of one of the main cultural events
of the year were forced to stop their research of exhibitions and biennials, but we chose to in the city, but it also serves to give the tone of
thanks to the cut in grants and investments are keep them, believing that better days will come. what can be expected from the great collective
now being requested at all times. We hope to find everyone healthy, and can exhibition this year.
The coronavirus came against our daily virus. imagine another moment, which will certainly Using as a guideline the idea of rehearsal,
In culture, where we already discussed cuts require us to be born again. of something that is built over time based on
to incentive laws and watched the dismantling an intense dialogue between the members of
of various institutions, the pandemic poses a collaborators [pAgE 06] the curatorial team, the current edition of the
new challenge. issue 50 march april may 2020 Biennial aims at decentralization, spreading its
To date, March 31, 2020, all meetings and artebrasileiros.com.br actions throughout the city - through a broad
cultural activities have been canceled or partnership with 25 different cultural institutions
postponed. The editions of the Art Basel fairs alles blau is the name given to the partnership -, opening multiple possibilities for reading the
in Hong Kong and Basel closed; ARCO Lisbon; between Elisa von Randow and Julia Masagão. selected works and artists. Other important
SP-Arte, in São Paulo; and arteBA, in Buenos The duo of graphic designers, since 2015, aspects of this edition are a greater opening for
Aires. The São Paulo and Mercosur Biennials develops illustrations, visual identities, the insertion of works of a historical character, a
were postponed, as well as the Manifesta13, editorial and expographic projects. They are clear balance between the genres and an interest
in Marseille. The Berlin Biennial still has to the creators of the new graphic project of the in promoting meetings, dialogues between
announce whether it will be maintained in June. ARTE!BRASILEIROS platform, designed to different poetics and works. In a recent interview
The IFEMA Exhibition Center, where the celebrate our 10 years of existence and our Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, curator of the show,
th
traditional ARCO Madrid fair was held just a 50 edition. and Paulo Miyada, assistant curator, explained
month ago, has just been transformed into a the main features of his project. Also part of the
“hospital” with over a thousand beds for infected mIguel groIsman is a journalist graduated team are Brazilian artist Carla Zaccagnini and
patients. at Cásper Líbero University and graduating curators Francesco Stocchi (Netherlands) and
“The outlook is bleak for the country’s in Cinema at FAAp. He has already written Ruth Estévez (Mexico).
cultural sector,” said Manuel Fernandez-Braso, about cinema and photography for Revista
president of the Asociación de Galerías de Arte Esquinas and was a student researcher under – Let’s start with the question Faz
de Madrid. the guidance of Dr. Simonetta Persichetti, escuro mas eu canto (it’s dark but I sing),
Despite the anguish we experience, having developing research on the representation of How was it to get to that theme?
to take care of ourselves and our peers, we had people living with HIV / AIDS in photojournalism. jacopo crIvellI vIscontI - There is no
to find, in our daily lives, moments of reflection He produces content for our digital platforms theme, but a methodology that has a lot to
and work solutions so as not to fade. since February. do with this idea of expanding the biennial

For our team, this would be a moment of great in time and space, with the exercise of
celebration. In this edition # 50, the first of the benjamIn seroussI is a curator, editor and proposing that the person can see the works
year, ARTE!BRASILEIROS celebrates its 10th cultural manager, with a master’s degree in more often. In the three exhibitions that
anniversary. Ten years where we defend the anthropology and sociology from Ecole Normale take place throughout the year, dedicated
idea that art synthesizes transversal narratives Supérieure and in cultural management from to the work of Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Clara
and that, specifically in the work of art, the artist Sciences-Po (France). He was an associate Ianni and Deana Lawson, you clearly see
expresses his ability to move away from the curator at the 31 Bienal de São Paulo. He is the interests and concerns of these artists.
st
world and perceive him as a subject. It contains currently director of Casa do Povo. He writes After a relatively short time you will find
your ideas and, certainly, your anxieties and for this edition about the Vila Itororó Canteiro those works juxtaposed with works by other
those of your time. Aberto project, where he served as curator. artists again.
In these years we have tried to portray In addition, the exhibition spreads across
the strength and diversity of contemporary jamyle rkaIn is a journalist, gra duated from the city with 25 partnerships with different
Brazilian art, for Brazilians and for the world, Mackenzie Presbyterian University. She is a institutions. Will you do these curatorships?
in some of the themes that stood out in this researcher in the areas of Media, Literature, paulo mIyada - Each institution ends
period in a remarkable way: the defense of Art and Gender. In 2016 and 2017, she dedicated up being part of a kind of expanded
freedom and gender issues; the fight against herself to the magazine CULTURA!Brasileiros curatorial committee. Not only because
racial discrimination, women’s segregation, and since the beginning of 2018 she worked each exhibition has its curator, but because
economic, social and political oppression; as a reporter at ARTE!BRASILEIROS. She also each exhibition has its audience and context.
migratory movements, freedoms, denouncing works as an editorial producer. For this edition, Not only do they result from the interest for
aggressions to the environment and the planet. she interviewed the artist Denilson Baniwa. the Biennial, but also from the possibility of
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