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
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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 Urug uay) 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
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