PASSION FOR PERFECTION
2ND ANREN BIENNIALE SZECHUAN PRC
THE 2ND ANREN BIENNALE: A CONFRONTATION OF IDEALS WAS PRESENTED IN THE CITY OF ANREN IN SZECHUAN PROVINCE, PEOPLE REPUBLIC OF CHINA FROM OCTOBER 2019 THROUGH FEBRUARY 2020.
Coco Fusco
Tin Man of the
Twenty-First Century,
2018
Aluminum & steel
304.8 x 119.4 x 99 cm
Coco Fusco Tin Man of the Twenty-First Century, 2018 Aluminum & steel 304.8 x 119.4 x 99 cm
UNDER THE TITLE A CONFRONTATION OF IDEALS THIS BIENNALE EXAMINED THE DIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES ARTISTS EMPLOY WORLDWIDE IN REFLECTING ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTI-POLAR WORLD ORDER.
CELEBRATED ART HISTORIAN AND CRITIC LÜ PENG INVITED ART HISTORIAN SIEBE TETTERO AND PROFESSOR HÉ GUIYAN OF THE SZECHUAN FINE ART INSTITUTE TO CO-CURATE A COMPREHENSIVE ARTIST SURVEY IN THIS TIME OF RAPID GEOPOLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE.
ALTHOUGH THERE IS AN INCLINATION TO LOOK AT THE CONFRONTATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT RISE FROM AN EAST-WEST PERSPECTIVE, SIEBE TETTERO PROPOSED IN HIS ACCEPTANCE OF THE INVITATION TO INCLUDE ISSUES THAT HAVE ALREADY OUTGROWN NATIONAL OR REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES, ISSUES THAT, IN THEIR URGENCY AND UNIVERSALITY, PLAY OUT ON A GLOBAL SCALE. SIEBE THEREIN SPECIFICALLY FOREGROUNDED ETHNICITY, GENDER AND ECOLOGY AS SUPRA-NATIONAL THEMES IN HIS CHOICE OF ARTIST COLLABORATIONS.
Erkan Ozgen,
Diren Mila,
Siebe Tettero &
assistant
Georgia Mowry
Erkan Ozgen, Diren Mila, Siebe Tettero & assistant Georgia Mowry
2ND ANREN BIENNALE WAS A PROJECT OF THE OVERSEES CHINESE TOWN ENTERPRICES OCT, SHENZEN, GUANGDONGH PROVINCE, PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
INITIATIVE MR. LÜ PENG,
CURATORS SIEBE TETTERO AND HÉ GUIYAN
TEAM GEORGIA MOWRY, ZHANG XU
MANAGEMENT SARL POÉ CONSULTING (FRANCE)