THE BIENNIAL OF THE SOUTH IN PANAMA "Summoning Worlds"
An
international project that intends to link up with the cultural agenda
of this country, with the intention of stimulating cultural development
and promoting new trends of the visual arts. This first edition of the Biennial aims to bring
together different points of view regarding artistic production: of its
authors, of the institutions and of different audiences.
The Biennial will be a vital action field of for
the recognition, fostering and encouragement of artistic creativity and
for the promotion new trends of the visual arts in the cultural and
urban environment of this Central American region, transforming in a
certain manner the city's landscape and its scenarios, actually
involving the spectators in a constant dialogue and interaction with
these structural practices.
Paintings,
drawings, performances, sculptures and installations are some of the art
manifestations that may be viewed during the First Biennial of the
South in Panama, 2013, "Summoning Worlds".
This
artistic event will be held from April 15th to May 30th in several
areas of the city: the Casco Antiguo (Old City), at the Ciudad del Saber
(City of Knowledge), on the coastal strip, among others, mentions the
gallery owner Luz Botero, of Luz Botero Fine Art, organizer of the event
in conjunction with the Mayor of Panama, and with the support of the
National Institute of Culture.
She points out that the activity linked to the celebration of the Fifth
Centennial of the Discovery of the Mar del Sur (South Sea), will have
over 250 local and foreign participating artists.
Jose
Manuel Noceda, Clara Astiasarán, Llilian Llanes Godoy and Nelson
Herrera Ysla were the curators of the Havana Biennial, Cuba, and they
will also be the curators of this event. We
are considering staging in Panama all the different art disciplines,
all the trends, from the most traditional to the most innovative, quoted
Noceda.
This
will be done in order to make it a diverse and plural Biennial, both in
regards to the participating generations, as well as the art
manifestations and disciplines that will be involved, explains the
curator.
Meanwhile, Herrera Ysla noted that Biennials always have an
extraordinary social component, as there are many people who remain
indifferent to art, "that never cross the door of a museum out of fear
or prejudice", and thanks to this type of activities, outdoors, they
manage to lose that fear.
