Biennial of the End of the World
12.12/2014 – 22/02/2014
Hall Central del Palacio Municipal, Mar del Plata
Founded in 2007 in Ushuaia, Argentina
Organizer: Fundación Patagonia Arte y Desafío
Created by the Fundación Patagonia Arte y Desafío in the context of Polo Austral de las Artes de las Ciencias y la Ecología Project, with the sponsorship of the Fundación Memorial del Parlamento de San Pablo, Argentina Biennial, under the name of Biennial of the End of the World.
VI Edition:
With more than 150 artists from 35 countries on 5 continents and a new Contemporary Popular Music Festival , the Biennale Argentina , opens on Friday December 12 fourth edition which will run until the end of February.
Its headquarters will be in Mar del Plata and will in February and March special interventions in Valparaiso and Punta Arenas , transforming its proposal to incorporate binational Chile as part of this regional world order , which covers the Southern Cone of America .
With an exhibition of contemporary art in various formats and different locations in the city of Mar del Plata will open on Friday 12 December 4th . Editing the BIENNIAL OF THE END OF THE WORLD: ” Contrasts and Utopias ” and will run until February 22, 2015 .
The Artistic Director is Scaringella Massimo (Italy ) , also in charge of the direction of the committee of ten curators / international selectors. It also has the special collaboration of renowned Chilean intellectual Justo Pastor Mellado .
The End of the World Biennial opens a new award , having been elected in July in Berlin as a full member of the International Biennial Association ( IBA ), a prestigious institution based in South Korea that brings major biennial world .
This 4th edition will have to Italy as the guest country of honor. The proposal brings together more than 150 artists , national and international , including: Joan Jonas ( USA ) , Tracy Moffat ( Australia ) , Karen Cytter (Israel ) , Regina Galindo ( Guatemala ) , Matteo Basile (Italy ) , Fabio Mauri ( Italy) , Marinella Senatore (Italy ) , Toshihiko Kato (Japan ) , Marinella Senatore (Italy ) and Liliana Porter, and Juan Andrés Denegri Doffo , among Argentines
Last editions of the biennial:
3rd Biennial of the End of the World. From 13 Octobre to 30 September 2011.
2nd Biennial of the End of the World. From 24 April to 25 May 2009.
1st Biennial of the End of the World. From 29 March to 29 April, 2007.
Source: Biennial of the End of the World official Website
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