Regional Meeting of Art
Region: Frictions and Fictions
Art in Transit — A dialogue with history
Montevideo 2007, Uruguay (Mvd-Era07)
August 9 to September 30
Blanes Museum
National Museum of Visual Arts
Spanish Cultural Centre of Montevideo
Concept and production:
Blanes Museum and Friends of Blanes Musem
Millán 4015-11700 Montevideo
598 2 3362248
www.encuentroregionaldearte.org.uy
The Friends of the Blanes Museum are pleased to announce the Official Launch of the international project Regional Meeting of Art. Region: Frictions and Fictions. Art in transit- A dialogue with history (Mdv-Era07), which will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay. The idea is to create a continuous event from August 9 through to September 30, 2007, marked by an essentially binding and polemical character. The project will be held in differents venues as the Blanes Museum, the National Museum of Visual Arts, the Spanish Cultural Centre of Montevideo, but also in urban spaces as a site for the interventions of contemporary artists.
It is the first more important international exhibition in Montevideo.Conceived to promote the dialogue between an ERA world-region project (which includes a historical exhibtion and a contemporary international art exhibition) and an ERA city-region project (with the participation of artists from the local art scene), it will include different formats of contemporary artistic practices, together with the organisation of conference cycles and theoretical debates, with the publications of the records and dissemination of the event.
The project organized in is structured on the idea of contributing to generate active links between people who work in the areas of artistic creativity and thinking, and those who develop knowledge on the basis of research in social sciences, anthropology and political sciences.The selected central theme for all interventions by artists and analysts will revolve around the contemporary crisis of the concept of ‘region’. The border policies, the multicultural dynamism created by migration and the stigma — oftentimes — of risk, of clandestinity, and the rupture and pervading effect of urban life on the public and private spheres, the subtle forms of cultural colonialism in the framework of an economically globalised world and, finally, the crisis of place suffered by subjects in this context, are some of the factors that will be approached through the view of contemporary art, in a dialogue with the view of XIXth Century “regionalist art” (Argentine, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) images gathered for the first time in an ehibition.
Era region-world project: Regional Art of the 19th Century. History of art was put together from a European perspective and centred on the succession of stylistic changes, and later on the succession of the avant-gardes. This accounts for the need of the art from the Rio de la Plata to find a perspective to “deconstruct” the heavy burden of European historiographical tradition. With this exhibition project we advocate that the visual culture of liberalism has subjected the regional visual tradition, and the existing silence on this issue has persisted in the construction of the histories of art.
La Cuadratura del Cono / Border Jam attempts to respond to current issues on the concept of region, establishing a dialogue with the historical art exhibition of the 19th Century. It seeks to suggest, in an impressive and metaphorical manner, the existing tensions in the physical, social, cultural and intellectual borders of our times. The curatorial approach of La Cuadratura del Cono shall not be specific. It will not provide direct comments on the historical processes of the 19th Century, but rather introduce works of art that refer, in a complex, critical and provocative manner, to the outcomes of these processes — borders, states, nationalism, power structures — as we experience them today. It will gather 19 artists from 11 countries: Monica Bonvicini; Luis Camnitzer; Claudia Casarino; Claudio Correa; Jose Damasceno; Lucia Egaña; Shilpa Gupta; Mona Hatoum; Ricardo Lanzarini; Cristina Lucas; Teresa Margolles; Amalia Pica; Miguel Angel Rios; Osvaldo Salerno; Fernando Sanchez Castillo; Santiago Sierra; Vibeke Tandbergy Pablo Uribe.
Era region-city project: Public and private universities, groups of emerging artists and distinguished curators from the local art scene have been invited to work on projects which at the same time involve other foreign also emergent artists from the region: Frontera Incierta Enrique Aguerre; Fundacion Arte Contemporaneo Angela Lopez y Juliana Rosales; Harto Espacio Adela Casacuberta y Antar Kuri; Intervalo de Confianza Jacqueline Lacasa; Mariana Ures ; Marte Upmarket Mercedes Bustelo y Gustavo Tabares
The conference cycle and round tables will be held with the participation of distinguished specialists in various areas from differents countries as Estrella de Diego; Marcia Sprandel, Paulo Herkenhoff; Tumelo Mosaka; José Luis Brea; Laura Malosetti, Mario Consens; Ticio Escobar; Ana Tiscornia; Gustavo Buntinx; Constanza Moreira; Rafael Cippolini ; Cuauhtémoc Medina; Carlos Capelán; Virginia Pérez Ratton; Andrea Giunta; Hugo Achugar; Gerardo Caetano; Pablo Thiago Rocca; Jacqueline Lacasa; Nelly Richard among others.
Credits: Organized by the Friends of the Blanes Museum and the Municipality of Montevideo and coproduced by SEACEX(State Society for the Foreign Cultural Action) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation of Spain; the Regional Meeting of Art Montevideo 2007, was made possible by the support of Prince Claus Fund; Hivos-DoenStitchen; Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; British Council; UNESCO and BID, the Secretary of Foreing Affairs of México and the Brazilian Embassies in Uruguay among others institutions.
For further information visit our Web site:
www.encuentroregionaldearte.org.uy
Press Contact
María del Pilar Pérez Piñeyro
General Producer ERA07
produdccion@era.org.uy / mapilar@chasque.net
