Italian art critic Eugenio Viola, curator of the Italian representation at the 2022 Venice Biennale and chief curator of the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art (MAMBO), visited Argentina to offer a talk on his experience in the matter.
summoned by the Andreani Foundationwith the cooperation of the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Institute of Culture and the support of the Foundation ArtebaViola led a presentation accompanied by images about the 59th Venice International Art Exhibition.
The curator highlighted that “for the first time in 127 years this Biennial was curated by a woman, Cecilia Alemani, and for the first time presents in a collection of 260 artists a great majority of female artists. She also explained that the name of the Milk of Dreams Biennial was taken from a posthumous book by Leonora Carrington, in which the surrealist artist describes a magical world in which life constantly reinvents itself.
In that sense, Viola pointed out that “surreality dominates this entire edition of the Biennial.” When presenting her tour of the Exhibition, Viola reviewed the works of Giulia Cenci, Simone Leigh, Delcy Morelos, Niki de Saint Phalle, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Barbara Kruger, Wu Tsang, Alexandra Pirici, Carla Accardi, Cecilia Vicuña , Claude Cahun and Lise Deharme, Katharina Fritsch, Louise Lawler, Nan Goldin, Rosemarie Trockel, Sonia Delaunay and Vera Molnár.
Minutes before the meeting, the curator witnessed the action Neither I, nor body, nor instrument, associated with the exhibition of The Reverse of the Armor, by Silvia Rivas. The activation had the collaboration of Belén Parra and Amalia Tercelán and the participation of Lara Stilstein.
The Back of the Armor, by Silvia Rivas
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Viola specializes in experiences and theories related to performance and body poetics and has been working together with the artist Silvia Rivas on various projects. During her talk, Viola, she also referred to the work of Silvia Rivas: “I always saw Silvia’s work as something very performative in the expanded conception of her video. And today I was particularly happy to see her performance, a sort of phenomenological echo of her work. What interests me in her work is the challenge to the two coordinates, time and space”.
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