Latin American artists in this Venice Art Biennale

Latin American and Argentine artists, never more present than in this Venice Art Biennale

     A third of the 331 artists that make up the Official Selection are Latin American, an unprecedented proportion in the history of the great universal expo.
     From Argentina, 16 artists have been selected, many of them linked to historical modernism. Four of them have an active presence on the local scene.
     The general curator Adriano Pedrosa, a star among Brazilian curators, will also show aboriginal art in a preferential space.
As Neil Armstrong said when he stepped on the Moon, the 60th Venice Art Biennale, which will open on April 20 and will run until November, will mean a step for Argentine art and a great leap for Latin American art. Of a total of 331 artists chosen to be part of this incredible global showcase, 114 belong to Latin America and the Caribbean. Of that group, 16 are Argentine – between living and deceased, residing in the country or abroad.

From Argentines, both established and emerging and little-known, the general curator Adriano Pedrosa has selected the works for his enormous exhibition entitled "Foreigners everywhere" (Stranieri ovunque, in Italian). Born in 1965 and native of Rio de Janeiro, he directs the renowned MASP (Sao Paulo Museum of Art) and is the first Latin American invited to the Biennale. In a couple of fleeting trips to Buenos Aires, in an agenda shrouded in secrecy, he visited a handful of galleries with which he already had contact and that carry artists whose production he is especially interested in, for dialogue with this year's motto. In particular, he met his friend Orly Benzacar (Galería Ruth Benzacar) and he already signed the Rosarina Mariana Tellería, who represented Argentina two editions ago.
The Argentines who will form the dream team at the Biennial are, in addition to Tellería, Claudia Alarcón & Silät from Salta (La Puntana Community, Salta), Mauricio La Chola Poblete, Juana Elena Diz and Korean Kim Yun Shin, almost 90 years old. Kim was born in what is now North Korea but her family emigrated to Seoul, where she received her education. She lives between South Korea and Argentina; She has her museum in Buenos Aires. But there will also be artistic works by established artists such as Libero Badii, Elda Cerrato, Víctor Juan Cúnsolo, Juan del Prete, Clorindo Testa, Raquel Forner, María Martorell, Emilio Pettoruti, Lidy Prati, Kazuya Sakai and Bibi Zogbé. Several of the deceased artists whose work Pedrosa selected are of Italian origin.

Among all of them, we have to imagine the centrality of Mauricio La Chola Poblete, to whom the curator has entrusted a 24-meter wall in the Arsenale, on which he can hang 7 large watercolors from his Chola Virgins series, and a photoperformance (the images of the works cannot be shown until the inauguration).
Added to these names is Luciana Lamothe, representative of Argentina among the submissions from countries to the Biennial, whose competitive work – Hopefully the doors will collapse – will occupy the Argentine Pavilion in the Arsenales sector. After a few weeks of uncertainty, due to the crisis, the new government has reconfirmed that the artist will have the amount assigned by the previous management for the production, which will be done in Italy due to transportation costs.

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