A themed exhibition that underlines the direction taken by contemporary art and society
The exhibition “Siamo foresta” at the Triennale is a real statement, a declaration of intent to indicate the urgency and the direction taken by contemporary art and society.
Agents provocateurs indigenous artists belonging to the so-called primitive arts, a polyphonic expressive chorus of creatives living in the South American rainforest.
The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Fondation Cartier in Paris and curated by the anthropologist Bruce Albert and Hervé Chandés, director of the French foundation. It presents the artworks of a group of artists among which stand out those Nivaklè bichrome from the Paraguayan Chaco, Esteban Klassen and Floriberta Fermin, with animals and plants, similar to the artwork of Solange Pessoa, protagonist in the main exhibition of the 2022 Venice Biennale, curated by Cecilia Alemani.
ALEX CERVENY PROPOSES A MAN INTEGRATED WITH BIOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL NATURE
Alex Cerveny figuratively translates the crisis of the “capitalocene”, reverses the Vitruvian canons of humanist and Renaissance ancestry and proposes a new myth in which man is integrated with the biological and botanical nature.
In the works of Bruno Novelli we find a chromatic carousel with a formal dimension that breaks away from the classical structures of figurative painting to align with the visual richness of the Amazon rainforest.
The parterre is enriched with the collaborations of Cai Guo-Qiang, Adriana Varejão and Fabrice Hyber, who are confronted with the creation of the yanomami artists, Ehuana Yaira, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe and Joseca Mokahesi, respecting a vocation to integration and the intersectional need for representativeness.
BRUNO NOVELLI ALIGNS WITH THE VISUAL RICHNESS OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST
An exposition to theses, then. It intersects harmoniously the rhizomatic botanical concept of Guattari and Deleuze that already in 1980 provided for “a non-hierarchical acentric system” with the ideals of Thoreau, which invited not to dream of a wild world far from us, but to look inside of us to discover the primordial vigor of nature.
Confirming the correspondence of the theme treated with respect to the Zeitgeist, Adriano Pedrosa - the artistic director of the next Biennale di Venezia in 2024 - announcing the title of the event, “Foreigners everywhere” has suggested that outsiders will be widely represented in the lagoon.
