BiennialNovember 11, 2019
34th Sao Paulo Biennial launches with performances on February 2020
Under the general curatorship of Jacopo Crivelli Visconti and a curatorial team consisting of Paulo Miyada (adjunct curator), Carla Zaccagnini, Francesco Stocchi and Ruth Estévez (guest curators), the 34th Bienal de São Paulo titled Faz escuro mas eu canto [Though it’s dark, still I sing], a line from a poem by Amazonian writer Thiago de Mello (Barreirinha, 1926), has recently announced its solo shows and performances.
This edition of the Sao Paulo Biennial is based on three different axes: space, time and depth. Beginning in February 2020 with three solo shows and three short-duration performative actions that will occupy certain areas of the Bienal Pavilion at different moments and introduce some of the themes that will be developed in the main exhibition – which will begin in September 2020, and will include the works featured in the solo shows. The artworks of the solo shows will thus reappear in the large group show, in new contexts but also bearing the meanings acquired in their previous showings.
The three solo shows were created by artists from different lines of research and backgrounds: the Peruvian Ximena Garrido-Lecca (Lima), the Brazilian Clara Ianni (São Paulo, SP) and North American artist Deana Lawson (Rochester, NY). Each of these shows will be accompanied by the presentation of one performance: the South African Neo Muyanga (n. 1974, Soweto), the Argentine León Ferrari (1920–2013, Buenos Aires) and Brazilian Helio Oiticica (1937–1980, Rio de Janeiro).
"The Bienal is beginning with a series of shows and events that introduce part of the themes that will be considered in depth in the main show, starting in September,” explains Crivelli Visconti. “Brazil and Latin America are very well represented, both in terms of the artists’ nationalities as well as the subjects they deal with, which range from social and political issues to the recovery of ancestral knowledge. At the same time, special attention is given to the power and urgency of the production within the expanded field of the African diaspora. Generally speaking, the 34th Bienal wishes to shed light on productions that deserve more attention, such as contemporary indigenous art (Brazilian and from other parts of the world) or that produced in the Caribbean.”
For more information visit: http://bienal.org.br/home
This edition of the Sao Paulo Biennial is based on three different axes: space, time and depth. Beginning in February 2020 with three solo shows and three short-duration performative actions that will occupy certain areas of the Bienal Pavilion at different moments and introduce some of the themes that will be developed in the main exhibition – which will begin in September 2020, and will include the works featured in the solo shows. The artworks of the solo shows will thus reappear in the large group show, in new contexts but also bearing the meanings acquired in their previous showings.
The three solo shows were created by artists from different lines of research and backgrounds: the Peruvian Ximena Garrido-Lecca (Lima), the Brazilian Clara Ianni (São Paulo, SP) and North American artist Deana Lawson (Rochester, NY). Each of these shows will be accompanied by the presentation of one performance: the South African Neo Muyanga (n. 1974, Soweto), the Argentine León Ferrari (1920–2013, Buenos Aires) and Brazilian Helio Oiticica (1937–1980, Rio de Janeiro).
"The Bienal is beginning with a series of shows and events that introduce part of the themes that will be considered in depth in the main show, starting in September,” explains Crivelli Visconti. “Brazil and Latin America are very well represented, both in terms of the artists’ nationalities as well as the subjects they deal with, which range from social and political issues to the recovery of ancestral knowledge. At the same time, special attention is given to the power and urgency of the production within the expanded field of the African diaspora. Generally speaking, the 34th Bienal wishes to shed light on productions that deserve more attention, such as contemporary indigenous art (Brazilian and from other parts of the world) or that produced in the Caribbean.”
For more information visit: http://bienal.org.br/home
