BIENALSUR 2019, the second edition of the cultural event of contemporary art from Argentina to the world opens new exhibitions on Chilean soil on August 8 and 9. Organized by the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), the biennial unfolds across the globe, simultaneously, until November, with exhibitions by 400 artists in more than 100 venues - with which it works jointly and collaboratively - from 43 cities in 20 countries.
The International Biennial of Contemporary Art of South America is presented again in the Chilean capital and in the city of Valparaiso. From August 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago, Chile, there will be an “interference” by Argentine Italian artist Elda Cerrato (1930), entitled "Remember a sign. Elda Cerrato [1972-1973]" curated by Gloria Cortés Aliaga. Through the reproduction of her installations censored in 1972 in Argentina, the artist takes part in the exhibition "De aquí a la modernidad" (From here to modernity), which belongs to the Museum's collection. This intervention brings back to memory the vestige and the use of the word as a subversive resource, with which an exercise of protest is reinstalled over the disputed goods of culture and its conflicting demands for visibility.
That same day, at 6 pm, Argentine artists Andrea Ostera, Eugenia Calvo and Nancy Rojas will give the lecture "No Class: Pedagogy as an Artistic Practice" at the Municipal School of Art of Valparaíso within the framework of the project "Travesía 0 y otros sueños" (Passage 0 and other dreams). Then, on August 9 at 4 pm, at the Centex - Extension Center of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage in Valparaíso, and in the same context, artists, managers and curators from the cities of Rosario, Córdoba, Mendoza and Valparaíso will meet to share experiences and imagine future exchanges. Participants: Andrea Ostera (ARG), Eugenia Calvo (ARG), Nancy Rojas (ARG), Romina Castiñeira (ARG), Inti Pujol (ARG), Soledad Aguirre (SGO), Ángela Cura (CHL), Henry Serrano (CHL), Mauricio Toro Goya (CHL), Susana Riveros (CHL), Varinia Brodsky (CHL), Pedro Donoso (CHL), Fernando Farina (ARG).
The inauguration of the exhibition "Passage 0 and other dreams" at the same venue will take place at 6pm. In the manner of a work in progress, it is an exchange between artists from the Manuel Musto Municipal School of Art in Rosario (Argentina) and the Municipal School of Fine Arts in Valparaiso. This exhibition has its correlate in an action in Cerro La Loma, where the School of Art and Club Estrella Roja are located, as a continuation of the first meeting of artists and neighbors held for the first edition of BIENALSUR. There, at 8.30pm there will be a visit to the interventions made by artists from the Municipal School of Fine Arts coordinated by the artist Henry Serrano (CHL) to end at 9.30pm with a banquet in the street.
With its unprecedented cartography, BIENALSUR erases borders, thinks along with artists between the local and the global, works in collaboration and in permanent dialogue with the demands and interests of each venue in which the most diverse contemporary artistic proposals are displayed.
Bolivia is BIENALSUR
In August, BIENALSUR 2019, the second edition of the cultural event of contemporary art from Argentina to the world extends its cartography to La Paz and Potosí, Bolivia, with new artistic proposals. Organized by the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), the biennial unfolds across the globe, simultaneously, until November, with exhibitions of 400 artists in more than 100 venues - with which it works jointly and collaboratively - 43 cities in 20 countries.
In August, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of South America continues to add artistic proposal, open to the public, in different venues of its unique cartography as is the case of the Bolivian cities of La Paz and Potosí.
On August 8th at 7pm in the Bolivian capital, "Fricciones" (Frictions) can be seen at the Cultural Center of Spain in La Paz with works by artists such as Mariela Scafati (ARG), Yolanda Mamani (BOL), Alejandra Alarcón (BOL/MEX), Katia Sepúlveda (CHL) and BIENALSUR curatorship by Fernando Farina (ARG) and Juan Fabbri (BOL).
Meanwhile, on August 16th at 7pm, the exhibition of the same name will be inaugurated at the Casa Nacional de la Moneda in Potosí with works by Claudia Coca (PER), Santiago Contreras (BOL), Airson Eraclito (BRA), Marcelo Masa͂gao (BRA), Coco Lasso (ECU), Enrique Ježik (ARG/MEX), Serena Vargas (BOL), among others.
This exhibition is presented as an essay taking Bolivia as its starting point, which is crossed by a colonial past that deeply marked the bodies and memories and reflects on the mechanisms of domination and marginalization that subsist due to racial, ethnic or national reasons in different sectors of the population of other countries of the region.
Later, on September 6, it will also be displayed at the National Museum of Art in La Paz, with works by artists José Ballivián (BOL), Iván Cáceres (BOL), Pamela Cevallos (ECU), Claudia Coca (PER), Airson Eraclito (BRA), Enrique Ježik (ARG/MEX), Vera Martins (BRA), Marcelo Masa͂gao (BRA), Beatriz Millón Sánchez (MEX), José Carlos Romero (ARG), Katia Sepúlveda (CHL), Antonio Turok (MEX/USA).
With its unprecedented cartography, BIENALSUR erases borders, thinks along with artists between the local and the global, works in collaboration and in permanent dialogue with the demands and interests of each venue in which the most diverse contemporary artistic proposals are displayed.
