14th CURITIBA INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART

DURATION: 2019-09-21 ~ 2020-02-23
OPENING: 2019-09-21
VENUE: Instituto Paranaense de Arte, Curitiba – PR, – Brasil
ADDRESS: Al. Dr. Carlos de Carvalho, 655 – 19º andar – Centro BR- 80430-180, Curitiba – PR, – Brasil
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14th CURITIBA INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART 2019 On September 21st, the 14th edition of the International Biennial in Curitiba (Brazil) will be opened, until March 1st, around the topic “Fronteiras em Aberto (Open Borders)”, covering over 100 venues in the city of Curitiba, including the prestigious Oscar Niemeyer Museum and the historic Paranaense Museum. The Biennial is renowned as one of the greatest events of contemporary art in South America and a major event in the artistic circuit worldwide. In this edition, more than 300 artists from 35 countries are expected to participate. Under the broader subject, an international videoart cycle called “Território visual (Visual territory)” will take place curated by Massimo Scaringella: Jane Katharina di Renzo/Ineke Reinders (Germany/Turkey); Elena Dahn (Argentina); Cesar Meneghetti and SergioAdriano H (Brasil); Patricia Claro (Chile); Dai Hua, Yan Longjiao and Wang Jingwei (China); Yohan Han (South Corea), Valerie Oka (Ivory Coast); Igor Grubic (Croatia); Annu Palakunnathu Matthew (India); Shay Frisch (Israel); Alex Caminiti, Adriana Omodei, Agnese Purgatorio, Sergio Racanati and Antonio Trimani (Italy); Munkhjargal Jargalsaikhan (Mongolia), Hassan Al Meer y Muzna Al Musafir (Omãn) Su Hui-Yu and Yao Jui-chung (Taiwan) When we watch a video we do not wonder how it will end or about the storytelling that puts together the narration portrayed. We observe, rather, with a willingness to be carried away by specific energies and emotions, that is, with the desire to live that given experience to the full. The artist aims in these cases not only to search for the meaning of the coded representation of the territory, but also to show its complex, unexpressed issues, eventually describing, on this occasion, the ultimate condition of the lost relationship with the place, sometimes becoming totally detached from that which is told. The work of art suggests the various conditions characterizing contemporaneity, that is, the loss of an actual relationship with the place that surrounds us. Video art seeks with its languages a relationship between vision and words, between the passage of time and the cessation of our unconscious, where it is still possible to make a “poetic” revelation and to bring out effective surprise mechanisms. The linguistic mode is a mental suggestion or a process of images and themes, revealing or suggesting the movement in the flight from the real, where the management of narrative time is, therefore, a key element for understanding the distinction between these methodologies, in which the work is now the place of conflict between reality and appearance, between truth and beauty, where the horizon is exalted. Reflections on these videos, on art as a whole, and on the mechanisms connecting the historical and social reality with the private reality are the focus of these works. OSCAR NIEMEYER MUSEUM (Curitiba) Rooms 11 (video space) From September 21st, 2019 to March 1st, 2020 www.bienaldecuritiba.org.br - www.museuoscarniemeyer.org.br