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ENGLISH VERSION EVERYTHING IN CHECK

eDitorial [paGE 8]
and a mixture between advertising and cultural but in its thirD eDition, bienalsur (International
EVERYTHING IN CHECK still, it was a law that had broad participation of Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South) further
entrepreneurs, artists, cultural promoters, creators expands its range, extending its actions to different
patricia roussEaux and managers, with a representative commission of parts of the globe trying to consolidate itself as
society. When you cut it and make it decided solely by an alternative event to traditional biennials of
as if it were not enough to know about our one person, whoever it is, you’re walking backwards.” art. The figures indicate that the idea of holding
fragilitY, it is a fact that are coming to the surface, It is necessary to speak, even if some feel a decentralized, dynamic and collaborative event
as never before, the clashes that sooner or later uncomfortable, that art, as part of the culture has been coming to fruition. In its debut, in 2017,
would appear because of the brutal inequality that and general education of a society, needs to it involved 16 countries, 34 cities and more than
was built over the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The jump outside the walls of ideological and financial 80 headquarters (as the institutions that host
brutal colonizing process remains exclusionary in groups in order to be large. the shows are called). Four years later, these
new clothing and, worse, pushes back many hard- numbers had a significant increase: now there
won achievements after the 1988 Constitution. Collaborators [paGE 06] are 23 countries, 47 cities and 120 headquarters
In art, this appeared in the cry of indigenous issue 57 december january february 2020/21 around the world. With great concentration in
and black artists who, growing in their artebrasileiros.com.br Latin America (especially in Argentina, which is
representativeness, find themselves with pressures covEr imaGE: No Martins, Detail of “Regras do home of the project) and Europe, the event also
inherent to the cultural barriers inherent to the jogo”, 2021. From the Encontros Políticos series. has developments in less likely places such as
dichotomy that exists when it comes to making art, 80 x 80 x 10 cm Saudi Arabia and Japan.
sharing art and commercializing art. The perverse Conceived by Aníbal Jozami and Diana Wechsler,
voracity of the circuit puts everything in question: it patriCia rousseaux is a pedagogue and has a from the Universidad Nacional de Três de Fevereiro
is not enough to write, it has to sell; it’s not enough degree in psychology. She has been working on (Untref), Buenos Aires, the project sought from
to paint, it has to sell; and to sell, not always the the development of editorial projects related to the beginning to subvert some premises of the
best work is the one you can hang on the wall. education, art and culture for 35 years. She is the arts circuit, decentralizing decisions, opening
Just look at works taken by galleries to Art founder and editorial director of arte!brasileiros. open calls to artists, establishing partnerships
Basel Miami, boasting the color to ensure a kind In this issue, she writes about fiac Paris, the with researchers and international institutions
of condominium of alienation. Arthur Piza Fund, the reopening of the Paris Stock and seeking to establish a platform that extends
However, as we live in very difficult times, all Exchange and the artist Julio Villani. through time and space. The first exhibition was
this is in question and even the great collectors inaugurated in July in Salta (Argentina) and has
surrender to idea that you cannot disguise. With hélio Campos mello is a photojournalist. He was already given the tonic that marks this edition of
this, the presence of women, indigenous and photography editor and editorial secretary for the the event, with a strong presence of issues related
African descendents in the collections grows. magazine Senhor, editor of the magazine Istoé and to the environment and land rights. A escuta e os
These are achievements that have come to stay, the magazine Brasileiros, director of photography ventos. Relatos e inscrições do Grande Chaco
despite the complaints of the privileged patriarchy. at Agência Estado. As a photographer, he covered brought works by artisans, activists from the
In the midst of the truce that the virus and its wars, he covered peace. Today he takes art photos original peoples and invited artists, such as the
variants give us, along with a greater vaccination, and street photos. He likes them both. Argentine Andrea Fernández (who is also the
there was an opportunity to leave again, get in curator of the exhibition) and the German Inka
touch with works, visit new scenography and even tereZa De arruDa is an art historian and Gressel, speaking of tradition and resistance.
travel and take a look at the international scene. independent curator. She has lived between São “Since the first edition the issue of migrations,
Thus, we accompany Brazilian artists who Paulo and Berlin since 1989, where she studied at borders, transits and identities has been a
move on the new international scene, who are the Freie Universität Berlin. She has been a curator leitmotiv and continues to appear very strongly,
experiencing new projects in the interior of Brazil of exhibitions in institutions such as ccBB, Museu in the number of proposals that appear”, explains
and who are part of the reason why it has always da República (df), me Collectors Room Berlin and Diana Wechsler, artistic director of the event.
been valid to invest in Brazilian culture, singular Kunsthalle Rostock, where she has been adjunct This idea of predominant themes stems from
and prolific. curator since 2015. the very structural logic of the event, which
Even the collection of François Pinault, is guided by open inscriptions (in this edition
ubiquitous in Venice and one of the largest in the fabio CYpriano, art critic and journalist, is more than 5,500 projects were submitted) to
world, gained space in Paris with the exhibition deputy director of the Faculty of Philosophy, identify the main mobilizing issues in the art plan.
Overture, at the reformed Bourse de Commerce Communication, Languages and Arts at puc-sp Another strong theme now, which is driving the
including works by Brazilian Antonio Obá - born and is on the editorial board of arte!brasileiros. In exhibitions organized in Saudi Arabia, are the
in Ceilândia, satellite city of Brasilia. Julio Villani, this edition, he signs an essay on the scenography ways of inhabiting. The collective exhibition Ecos.
with his enormous trajectory, exhibits in Paris of exhibitions and articles about the artist Jaider Um mundo entre o analógico e virtual ( Echoes.A
and New York; No Martins is in Chicago’s largest Esbell and the new book by Jacques Rancière. world between analog and virtual), opened in
gallery, Mariane Ibrahim, now also based in Paris; October in Riyadh, brings together 24 artists of
Maxwell Alexandre, at the Palais de Tokyo and the miguel groisman is a journalist graduated from different nationalities – 70% of them women –
engraver Santidio Pereira exhibits in Shanghai. Faculdade Cásper Líbero. He researches cinema, who deal with this issue of housing space and
In this sense, it is dramatic to see the contradiction visual representation and photojournalism, having existence, an everyday experience that flows
that exists between the reality and the ideological already collaborated with publications specialized between the analogic and the digital, the real and
misery of the politicians who govern us today, in the image, such as Aperture. He is currently a the virtual. Are works in which, according to Diana,
who have begun a crusade of precariousness of reporter for arte!brasileiros. “space and time appear once aligned and once
institutions and companies dedicated to culture dissociated “. This discussion gains greater breath
and the diffusion of culture. We have heard the biennials BiEnalsur [paGEs 10 to 15] when thought in the context of the pandemic,
secretary of culture Mario Frias – currently linked to in which these two aspects appeared strongly
the Ministry of Tourism, which is “responsible” for ENVIRONMENT, dissociated and were the object of many poetic
culture, its strategies and its budget in Brazil – say reflections, besides having a deep connection with
that it will fight with all its forces so that the newly MIGRATIONS AND the somewhat timeless and nomadic character
approved Law Paulo Gustavo, which provides for a IDENTITIES GIVE THE of the BiEnnialsur project itself.
budget of almost R$ 4 billion for the cultural sector In fact, BiEnalsur is one of the few international
in states and municipalities, does not advance. KEYNOTE IN BIENALSUR events that has not changed its calendar according
In a long interview in this edition, Danilo Santos to the Covid-19, as did the biennials of Venice and
de Miranda, who has been president of Sesc- Organized from Buenos Aires, but hosted São Paulo. Its natural geographical dispersion
sp since 1984 and is responsible for numerous this year in 23 countries - and in the virtual and the increasingly intense presence of internet
permanent activities of the highest quality in more environment - the third edition of the event networks in its structural logic – with a very
than 40 units in the State, comments: deals with contemporary themes and tries to important highlight given to virtual communication,
“It’s a sequence of progressive worsening, consolidate itself as an alternative model to through above all the site (bienalsur.org) are among
unfortunately. The Rouanet law is a law envied traditional biennials the reasons for maintaining the calendar. “It
by other countries of the world (...) There were seemed to us that the network logic, the logic of
problems mainly regarding the geographical issue By maria Hirszman working simultaneously, polyphonic, decentralized
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