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Indepth Arts News:
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Third International Biennial: Looking for a Place"
1999-07-10 until 1999-12-31
Site Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM,
USA United States of America
The exhibition, whose working title is LOOKING FOR A
PLACE, sets out to translate the emotion of time and place
and to assert that in each corner of the planet there is a
universe. The project seeks to reinforce the confluence
between nature, science and cultural cross-fertilization.
Martínez states, While the past was considered to be the
source of all knowledge and Western reason regarded as the
sole truth, today art feels the need to break out of its
straitjacket, explore uncharted lands and fashion new
possibilities of thought based on the synchronicity of the
present.
The biennial features works by over 20 artists whom
Martínez views as being interpreters of a rapidly changing
world. They represent many countries and thematic as well
as stylistic approaches, including installation, video,
interactive works, performance, scientific explorations,
aesthetics/politics, travel studies, feminist art, and ecological
art. In addition, SITE Santa Fe offers intensive educational
and parallel programs designed around the biennial for a
variety of participants.
Ms. Martínez's project is an auspicious follow-up to SITE
Santa Fe's first two biennials: LONGING AND BELONGING:
From the Faraway Nearby in the summer of 1995, and
TRUCE: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions in
the summer of 1997, remarked director Louis Grachos. It
continues our commitment to bring leading-edge
contemporary art to the local community and, at the same
time, to serve as a link in the global art/museum world.
Rosa Martínez is an independent art critic and curator from
Barcelona. This year, she curated the Project Rooms at
ARCO 98. Martínez is also the curator of the site-specific
project Mar de fondo that will be celebrated in Valencia,
Spain, in July 1998, and one of the curators of
CREAM--Contemporary Art in Culture--an exhibition about
emerging international artists in the form of a book that will be
published in September 1998 by Phaidon Press in London.
In 1997, she served as artistic director of the 5th International
Istanbul Biennial and from 1996- 1997 was director of the
curatorial training program, Passion and Ennui in
Contemporary Art, organized by Fundacio La Caixa in
Barcelona. Martínez was curator of Sala Montcada, the
experimental space for young artists at La Caixa, during two
seasons (1997 and 1992-1993). She was a member of the
curatorial team responsible for Manifesta 1, a new European
biennial, held in Rotterdam in June 1996. Martínez is also an
editor of art books and an art critic collaborating with such
publications as La Guía del Ocio, Lápiz and Flash Art
International.
From 1988 until 1992, Martínez was chief curator of La Bienal
de Barcelona, and coordinator for Barcelona's submissions
to the Mediterranean biennials in Bologna, Thessaloniki,
Marseille and Tipassa. From 1978 through 1988, she was
responsible for the Art and History activities of Fundacio La
Caixa.
I strongly believe that Santa Fe is the perfect environment to
present an exhibition aimed at establishing a fruitful dialogue
with contemporary international art currents, reflects
Martínez. SITE Santa Fe has stepped into the international
arena and become a magnet drawing the attention of both the
public and critics, and Santa Fe's geographical, sociological
and cultural hallmarks make it a privileged place for tackling
some of the issues facing the world today.
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