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September 25 to December 12, 2010
Opening September 21, 2010
The 29th edition of the São Paulo Biennial is rooted in the idea that it is impossible to separate art from politics. By procedures and means that are distinctive to it, art constantly questions and interrupts the sensorial coordinates by which one perceives and inhabits the world, thus inserting themes, subjects and attitudes that did not fit there before.
This curatorial platform takes into account two related facts. Firstly, the evidence that, as traditional paradigms of sociability (at both local and global level) have been called into question in the last few decades, art has affirmed itself as a privileged medium for both apprehending and reinventing reality. Secondly, the recognition that this process has brought art and politics together to the point of almost non- distinction, thus underscoring the urgent need to emphasize the difference between art and other realms of knowledge.
The exhibition’s title, There is always a cup of sea to sail in – a line taken from Brazilian poet Jorge de Lima’s major work Invenção de Orfeu [The invention of Orpheus] (1952) –, sums up the primary objective pursued by the 29th São Paulo Biennial: to assert that the utopian dimension of art is to be found in art itself, rather than in what lies outside or beyond it. This “cup of sea,” this infinity close at hand which artists relentlessly produce, is what provides the power to move forward in spite of all adversity.
Venue: Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo
Chief-curators: Moacir dos Anjos and Agnaldo Farias
Co-curators: Chus Martinez, Fernando Alvim, Rina Carvajal, Sarat Maharaj and Yuko Hasegawa.
List of Artists
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