From Argentina to the world: the essential samples of Bienalsur

With the opening of six exhibitions in Ushuaia, the southernmost point of the planet, the second edition of Bienalsur, the mega-event of art, began its journey, which includes 400 artists, in 110 exhibits in over 100 locations in 43 cities, in approximately 20 countries.

Here is a small sample of the big meetings of your calendar in the coming months:

Michelangelo Pistoletto Circuit

The Italian artist, one of the big names that embellish this edition, will have a very active participation, through different works in different spaces. The creator, exhibitor of Arte Povera (mediocre art), will begin their presentations on June 22 in the gardens of the Italian Embbady in Argentina.

"In the Arte Povera the word "poor" does not mean without money, but means "essential", means in direct relationship with the earth, with the phenomenology of existence ", explained the Italian during his visit to Argentina in 2018.

After attending the National Museum of Decorative Arts and the National Museum of Fine Arts, you will arrive at Km0-Untref, the immigrant museum, where your interventions site-specific they will be linked to one of the six conservation axes of the event: Transits and migrations.

The Pistol circuit It will be closed in the neighborhood of La Boca, in collaboration with the museum Benito Quinquela Martín, where he will present activities related to the project. Terzo Paradiso, a concept that has enrolled it worldwide.

The Third paradise It is a concept that combines a first paradise linked to the natural, and a second, more anchored in the construction of the culture in the broadest sense by the human being, which includes the technological and scientific development. In this sense, the step proposed by Pistoletto seeks to raise awareness of the need for coexistence between the first and the second, warning of the need to become personally aware when generating a more global vision.

The American, considered one of the most influential personalities of contemporary video art, will be presented on June 21 at the Franklin Rawson Province Museum of Fine Arts in San Juan (KM 1,333) with Works, healed by the Brazilian Marcello Dantas.

The exhibition will be an excellent opportunity to discover some of the obsessions that have made him a character: the human condition, birth and death.

The amazing floral art of the Japanese Azuma Makoto It can be seen at the MUNTREF Center for Art and Nature – Eco Parque headquarters (KM 5.5) in Buenos Aires, where the exhibition will be presented. In flower.

Makoto, born of his experience in the traditional floral market of Ota, has become an excellent botanical sculptor who fills with life, color and interrogates all the spaces that intervene.

Makoto, who takes up the tradition of Ikebana, will present the disc of his botanical sculptures, a series of creations made with flowers and plants of breathtaking beauty on the island of Okinawa. .

On May 25th, Hibino, Dean of the Tokyo Faculty of Arts, will present a new phase of the project to his work with the community of Quilmes. Tour / BIENALSUR, in Amaicha del Valle, Tucumán.

This collaboration proposal aims to promote the exchange of knowledge and the enrichment of the points of view of very different communities through an artistic activity of social inclusion, which aims at the exchange between people of different histories.

"Hibino is working on dialogue through crafts, creating a work from this interaction, he mixes elements of Japanese crafts with those of the place," he explained. . Culture Infobae Anibal Jozami, Director of Bienalsur and Rector of the National University of Tres de Febrero.

Martha Rosler, Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile

The project Library From the well known American artist, militant and feminist, she proposes something new in an exhibition: borrow some time his personal library to open to the public in the form of a room reading.

This montage allows to approach from a new angle an artist who based his work on the critical exploration of the problems of women at the Contemporary Town Hall Antiguo Sede of Inmigrantes. Simultaneously, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of Chile, Rosler will present a retrospective exhibition traversed by questions of political aesthetics and especially for his work in Chile under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet .

Samples with various artists

From June 22, Rubén Darío Square in the comfortable Recoleta district of Buenos Aires will host Draw me a flag, a project in the public space imagined by the French Christian Boltanski, which includes 80 visually stunning banners designed by artists from different latitudes such as Guillermo Kuitca (Argentina), David Lynch (USA), Beatriz Milhazes (Brazil), Agnes Varda (France), among others.

Bienalsur will arrive in Peru thanks to the work of French Sophie Calle and German Harum Farocki, who will present Control! (variations on biopolitics) at the ICPN headquarters in Lima, an experiment that will be repeated at the University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico, with a date to be confirmed.

On August 15, the MMAM – Municipal Museum of Modern Art of Cuenca – Ecuador presents the exhibition Machinations, contemporary dialogues with works by artists Teresa Margolles (Mexico), Alexander the apostle (Venezuela), Waltércio Caldas (Brazil), José Alejandro Restrepo (Colombia) and Marcelo Brodsky, Julio Park, Liliana Porter and Leon Ferrari (Argentina).

Since June 8, the district of Crans Montana, in Valais, Swiss, will be crossed by a large installation in public space with works of Argentines Marie Orensanz, Pablo Reinoso and Leandro Erlich. In addition, the Lens Opal Foundation will present Kulata Tjuta from the collective of Australian artists invited to carry out this project.

la France will host a series of outstanding projects such as program integration Grated person MACVAL (Val de Marne, Paris), the residence of Hugo Aveta and a series of projects in the FRACS of Toulouse, Marseille, among others.

In the House of Latin America you will see the project On the other side of Pablo Reinoso. On the other hand, the chapel of the Fernández Blanco Museum of Buenos Aires and the chapel of La Rochelle will simultaneously present the sound installation. Here and now.

Spain will include one of the highlights of the Biennale's cartography as it includes sites in different cities: the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum in Madrid, which will exhibit Go, read, give place, from the Spanish artist Rogelio López Cuenca; On the island of Palma de Mallorca, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Es Baluard will present a group exhibition featuring the works of several local artists, as well as the Marist Art Center of Sant Cugat and the Center of Virreina in Barcelona.

At the MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti of XXI Secolo – Rome, Italy will be presented Odyssey A graphic fantasy from Argentina Eduardo Stupía, a review of the path of Ulysses which, through the text, the image and the sound, triggers badogies, metaphors and critical resonances on current issues such as contemporary subjectivity, l & # 39; immigration and exile.