Brazilian Pavilion, Brazil at Venice Biennale of Art - Brazilian Pavilion, Giardini, Castello - City of Venice
(Photo: courtesy of Jonathas de Andrade)
Exhibition in progress from April 23rd to November 27th 2022
The 59th Biennale Arte will open to the public on 23 April. But on the 20th, 21st and 22nd there will be the various openings and collateral events that always suddenly animate the Venetian artistic life. The awards ceremony will take place on the day of the opening to the public.
The title of the 59th edition of the Biennale d'Arte is Il Latte dei Sogni that means The Milk of Dreams.
The invited artists are 213 from 58 countries. There are 26 Italian artists, 180 the first participations in the International Exhibition, 1433 the works and objects on display, 80 new productions.
In all, 80 nations will participate in the Venice Biennale in the pavilions at the Giardini, the Arsenale and in the historic center of Venice.
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Brazilian Pavilion, Brazil at 59th Biennale Arte of Venice
The title of the exhibition at the Brazilian Pavilion is Com o cora��o saindo pela boca.
Artists: Jonathas de Andrade.
Curators: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti .
Commissioner: José Olympio da Veiga Pereira, president of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.
Seat: Brazilian Pavilion, Giardini - Venice
Press Release of Brazilian Pavilion, Brazil Pavilion
The Funda��o Bienal de S�o Paulo is announcing the appointment of Jacopo
Crivelli Visconti as curator of Brazil�s national representation at the 59th International Art
Exhibition � La Biennale di Venezia. Crivelli Visconti was the general curator of the 34th Bienal de
S�o Paulo � Faz escuro mas eu canto [Though it�s dark, still I sing], which ended on December 5
at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion.
Jos� Olympio da Veiga Pereira, president of the Funda��o Bienal, explains that �although it is
traditional to appoint the curator of the Bienal de S�o Paulo to the curatorship of the Brazilian
representation at the Venice Biennale, the choice of Jacopo Crivelli Visconti is owing to the broad
knowledge that the curator demonstrates about Brazilian contemporary art, to his previous
experience as the curator of a national representation in Venice, to his good integration with the
Funda��o�s team, and to the affinity between the concepts he has mobilized at the 34th Bienal de
S�o and those proposed for the 59th Venice Biennale.�
To represent Brazil at the oldest biennial in the world, Crivelli Visconti, for his part, selected artist
Jonathas de Andrade (1982, Macei�, Alagoas, Brazil), one of the most representative Brazilian
artists of his generation, and who also participated in the 32nd Bienal de S�o Paulo (2016) with
the video installation O Peixe [The Fish], subsequently shown, in the following year, in a solo
show at New Museum (New York, USA), and in the 29th Bienal de S�o Paulo (2010). �In his
works, the artist seeks the idea of an authentically popular culture, in all the possible senses and
intrinsic complexity of this term. He takes the body � mainly the male body � as his guiding axis
for dealing with themes such as the world of work and of the worker, along with the identity of the
individual in contemporaneity, through metaphors that fluctuate between nostalgia, eroticism and
political and historic criticism,� says the Brazilian Pavilion�s curator.
For this edition, Andrade is working on a brand-new installation, commissioned for this occasion,
in dialogue with the theme of this year�s Venice Biennale. �This invitation is a surprise and an
honor. Nevertheless, the idea of representing Brazil today, wherever, is a great challenge primarily
for the responsibility in the context of the crucial complexities the country is currently facing.
Hopefully, art will manage to translate the tangled knot it is to live in our times and will manage to
inspire dreams that allow us to untie those knots,� the artist states.
Curated by Cecilia Alemani, the Biennale Arte 2022 takes its title from the book The Milk of
Dreams by surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917, United Kingdom � 2011, Mexico). In
Alemani�s words, �the artist describes a magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned
through the prism of the imagination, and where everyone can change, be transformed, become
something and someone else. The exhibition takes us on an imaginary journey through
metamorphoses of the body and definitions of humanity."
The Brazilian participation at the 59th International Art Exhibition � La Biennale di Venezia
The Funda��o Bienal de S�o Paulo's prerogative to realize Brazil's official representation at the
17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia is the fruit of a partnership
with the Special Secretariat for Culture, which is responsible for developing the country's cultural
exchange policies. The Brazilian participations at the Architecture and Art exhibitions organized
by La Biennale di Venezia take place in the Brazilian Pavilion, which was built in 1964, designed
by Henrique Mindlin, and is maintained by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Jonathas de Andrade
Jonathas de Andrade (1982, Macei�, AL) lives and works in Recife (PE). He develops videos, photographs
and installations based on the production of images, using strategies that blend fiction, reality, tradition and
negotiation. One of de Andrade�s most emblematic projects is the set of works he has brought together at
the Museu do Homem do Nordeste [Museum of the Man from the Northeast], conceived as a possible
counterpoint to the anthropological museum created in 1979 by Gilberto Freyre, which still exists in the city
of Recife. While the original museum reviews the region�s identity and colonial history based on a gathering
of artifacts and historic objects, de Andrade shifts its gaze to the people, revealing the way that relations of
power and class bear the traces and consequences of history. Other recent works, such as Jogos dirigidos
(2019) and Infind�vel mapa da fome (2019-2020) spring from a process of shared experience and
exchange with communities from different places around Brazil that carry the marks of very specific
historical processes, resulting in authentically collaborative works, where the notion of authorship is
dissolved and becomes more complex. His solo exhibitions have included Jonathas de Andrade: Um pra
Um, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, (2019); O Peixe, New Museum, New York, USA (2017); On
Fishes, Horses and Man, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (2017); Vis�es do Nordeste, Museo Jumex,
Mexico City (2017); and Museu do Homem do Nordeste, MAR � Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
(2014�2015). Group shows he has participated in include most notably the 16th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2019); Artapes, MAXXI: National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy (2018); the 32nd Bienal de S�o
Paulo, SP (2016) and the 29th Bienal de S�o Paulo (2010); Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the
Collection, MoMA � Museum of Modern Art, USA (2015); and Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America
Today, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (2014).
Jacopo Crivelli Visconti (1973, Naples, Italy) is a curator and art critic based in S�o Paulo. He
holds a PhD in architecture from the Universidade de S�o Paulo (USP), and was a member of the
team of the Funda��o Bienal de S�o Paulo from 2001 to 2009, when he curated the official
Brazilian participation at the 52nd International Art Exhibition � La Biennale di Venezia (2007). His
recent works include: Untimely, Again, Pavilion of the Republic of Chipre at the 58th Biennale di
Venezia, Italy (2019); Brasile � Il coltello nella carne, PAC � Padiglione d�arte contemporanea,
Milan, Italy (2018); Matriz do tempo real, Museu de Arte Contempor�nea of the Universidade de
S�o Paulo, Brazil (2018); Memories of Underdevelopment, Museum of Contemporary Art of San
Diego, USA (2017); H�ctor Zamora � Din�mica n�o linear, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, S�o
Paulo, Brazil (2016); Sean Scully, Pinacoteca do Estado de S�o Paulo, Brazil (2015); and Ir para
volver, 12th Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador (2014). He is the author of the book Novas derivas (WMF
Martins Fontes, S�o Paulo, Brazil, 2014; Ediciones Metales Pesados, Santiago, Chile, 2016). He
regularly collaborates with publications on contemporary art, architecture and design, contributes
to exhibition catalogs, and writes monographs on artists.
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