BEYOND THE VOID: ARTISTIC AND THEORETICAL EXCHANGE FRANCE AND BRAZIL IN THE REALM OF THE BIENNIALS (1959-1985)

• Autor(a) principal: Spricigo, Vinicius [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/51151
• topic: Bienal de Sao Paulo; Paris Biennale; Vilem Flusser; Pierre Restany

This investigation focuses on Contemporary Art Biennials and Vile'm Flusser's claim about the critical need to rethink the concept of the periodical large-scale exhibitions. The central axis of this study is a research in the archives of Flusser at the Universitat der Kunste, Berlin, the Bienal de Sao Paulo and the Biennale de Paris. Taking as a starting point Flusser's proposal to the Sao Paulo and Paris Biennials (1972), this research analyze the passage from the artistic internationalism to the current perspectives of cultural globalization. The analyses of the archives resonate with the exchanges between Sao Paulo and Paris, within the framework of these Biennials between 1959 and 1985, and inform the debates on the biennialization of contemporary art. This exchange was established by the art critics Mario Pedrosa and Pierre Restany.