The Cuenca Biennial has been one of the most important contemporary arts events in Ecuador for 31 years. The curatorship this year has been commissioned to Jesús Fuenmayor, one of the most important curators in Latin America, who has asked the artists to work from their own experiences and submit work showing situations where this prevails, based on prior research and exploration processes in the city of Cuenca.
The exhibition “Legible - Visible” to be presented at the Biennial aims to explore relationships of continuity, complementarity and dialectics established between artists’ publications and audiovisual work, two media which have both undergone considerable development within the context of creative work in the last century. It is an invitation to reflect on questions such as sequentiality, narration, filming, the passing of time, montage, representation of movement, and in general the relationship between audiovisual publications and documents, two of the most relevant media depicting the cultural and social landscapes of our day.
Participant artists:
John Baldessari (1931, USA), Julián Barón (1978, Spain), Christian Boltanski (1944, France), Lizzie Borden (1958, USA), Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017, Holland), Ulises Carrión (1941-1989, Mexico), Guy Debord (1931-1994, France), Fortunato Depero (1892-1960, Italy), Peter Downsbrough (1940, USA), Felipe Ehrenberg (1943-2017, Mexico), Dan Graham (1943, USA), Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948, Chile), Dominique Hurth (1985, France), Isidoro Valcárcel Medina (1937, Spain), László Moholy-Nagy (1985-1946, Hungary - EEUU), Raymond Pettibon (1957, USA), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008, France), Martha Rosler (1945, USA), Gloria Vilches (1978, Spain), Heiko Volkmer (1984, Germany) y William Kentridge (1955, Southafrica).
The exhibition “Legible - Visible” to be presented at the Biennial aims to explore relationships of continuity, complementarity and dialectics established between artists’ publications and audiovisual work, two media which have both undergone considerable development within the context of creative work in the last century. It is an invitation to reflect on questions such as sequentiality, narration, filming, the passing of time, montage, representation of movement, and in general the relationship between audiovisual publications and documents, two of the most relevant media depicting the cultural and social landscapes of our day.
Participant artists:
John Baldessari (1931, USA), Julián Barón (1978, Spain), Christian Boltanski (1944, France), Lizzie Borden (1958, USA), Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017, Holland), Ulises Carrión (1941-1989, Mexico), Guy Debord (1931-1994, France), Fortunato Depero (1892-1960, Italy), Peter Downsbrough (1940, USA), Felipe Ehrenberg (1943-2017, Mexico), Dan Graham (1943, USA), Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948, Chile), Dominique Hurth (1985, France), Isidoro Valcárcel Medina (1937, Spain), László Moholy-Nagy (1985-1946, Hungary - EEUU), Raymond Pettibon (1957, USA), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008, France), Martha Rosler (1945, USA), Gloria Vilches (1978, Spain), Heiko Volkmer (1984, Germany) y William Kentridge (1955, Southafrica).