The Museum of the Central Bank will be the stage for the presentation of The Forms of the Economy, or The Economy of the Forms; at the Paco Urondo University Cultural Center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, The Eye of the Hurricane; and in the Manzana de las Luces Historical Cultural Complex, The Piety of Statues, Episode 1 of the UNOFFICIAL PROJECT Mounted Stories, Dissident Accounts. Exhibitions composed with works by artists from Argentina, Cuba and Spain that question the economic symbols, individualism and colonial narratives inscribed in the monuments of the city, highlighting the tradition of collective struggles in Argentina and its spaces of dissidence. BIENALSUR 2021, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South organized by the National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), inaugurates on Tuesday, October 5, a new circuit for contemporary art in the Historic Center of the City of Buenos Aires with three exhibitions crossed by the curatorial axis Politics of Art. The exhibitions include works that question the economic symbols, individualism and colonial narratives that are inscribed in the monuments of the city, highlighting the tradition of collective struggles in Argentina and its spaces of dissidence. The Héctor Carlos Janson Historical and Numismatic Museum of the Central Bank, KM 1.6 of BIENALSUR, will be the presentation spot for The forms of the economy, or The Economy of the Forms, with productions by the Cuban Dagoberto Rodríguez and the Argentines Santiago Porter and Alicia Herrero. Curated by Florencia Battiti, this essay reflects on the aesthetic possibilities of economic formulas. The exhibition can be visited for free from October 6 to November 12, on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 12 a.m. to 5 p.m., with prior registration. On Tuesday 5, at 4:30 p.m., at the Paco Urondo University Cultural Center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, KM 1.5 of BIENALSUR, will inaugurate The Eye of the Hurricane, an exhibition that lies within the framework of the 200 years of the UBA. Curated by Florencia Qualina and Leandro Martínez Depietri, it discusses about the strategies of empathy and the collective dimensions of occupation of the public sphere in Argentina. It is open for visitations, free of charge, until December 11, from Monday to Friday between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., without prior reservation. The last inauguration of the 5 th , at 6 p.m. at the Manzana de las Luces Historical Cultural Complex, KM 2 of BIENALSUR, will be the UNOFFICIAL PROJECT. Mounted Stories, Dissident Accounts. In this case it will be the turn for the presentation of Episode 1: The Piety of Statues ;, by the Argentine artist Alexis Minkiewicz and curated by Diana Wechsler and Leandro Martínez Depietri. This first installation is focused on dismantling the colonial legacy with counter-allegories that are born from altering the narrative of the official monuments. The exhibition can be visited until February 28 from Wednesday to Sunday, between 12 p.m. and 7 p.m., without prior reservation. Framed in the same project, from Friday, October 15, and every Friday afternoon/night until November 26, the public will be invited to assist to the performances; Furious Baroque; by the company Ópera Periférica, and Cabaret Neo Bar Otra, curated by Loréne Belloni. Both proposals work from a gender perspective, diversity and social transformation.
