We are pleased to announce Juan Manuel Echavarria's participation in:
DECLINING DEMOCRACY : Rethinking democracy between utopia and participation Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina Palazzo Strozzi Firenze September 23 - January 22, 2012
Contemporary
art as a platform to explore contemporary social and political issues:
the new exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, in
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, entitledDeclining Democracy. Rethinking democracy between utopia and participation(23
September 2011—22 January 2012) presents the diverse artworks of twelve
international contemporary artists. Their works put together through
this exhibition create a reflection on the values, contradictions and
paradoxes that typify today’s society. The show further addresses the
possible declinations of the principles of democracy, which recently is
being challenged more and more.
Declining Democracyis
a project devised by CCC Strozzina with the scholarly contribution of
Piroschka Dossi (curator and author), Gerald Nestler (researcher and
artist), Christiane Feser (curator and artist) and Franziska Nori
(director of the CCCS).
Le Mois de La Photo A Montreal - Lucidité Vues de L'interieur, Curated by Anne-Marie Ninacs
September 8 - October 9, 2011
Juan
Manuel Echavarría, 2007-2011, Requiem
NN (#1a, #1b), Lenticular
prints, 20 x 20
inches
In the past ten years, numerous artists have used photography to look
complex geopolitical situations and painful human realities square in
the face. It nevertheless seems more urgent than ever that, as a
society, we examine the causes and forces at the root of these external
miseries in the hope of attaining a measure of inner clarity, of
“transparency of mind,” which is the psychological meaning given to the
term lucidity in modern times.
Thus, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2011 features artists who, in a
certain way, turn their cameras towards themselves and conceive of
photography as an introspective process, an opportunity for meditation, a
mode of consciousness, even a means of revealing the unconscious. In
doing so, they draw our attention to forces that we find it difficult to
recognize but that nevertheless govern our actions – the illusion of
identity, fear, death, anger, not knowing – and provide us with
opportunities to reflect on acceptance, compassion, creativity, and the
freedom to act.
8th Bienal do Mercosul, Ensaios de Geopoética, Curated by Jose Roca, Porto Alegre, Brazil
September 15 - November 15, 2011
The theme of the 8th edition of the Mercosul Biennial – Essays in Geopoetics is territory and its critical redefinition from an artistic viewpoint. It will assemble around 100 artists from several countries dealing with topics related to this discussion: mapping, colonization, frontier, customs, transnational alliances, geopolitical constructs, locality, scientific travels, nation and politics. According to José Roca, the chief curator for this edition, “The 8th Biennial wants to show alternatives to the conventional idea of nation and discuss new cartographies, the relationships between political and geographical conditions, a positioning between the regional and the global, the routes of circulation and exchange of symbolic capital, citizenship in non-urban areas, the political status of fictional nations and the relationship between science, travel and colonization.”
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