Dear Srs,
The following message appeared on DESIGN-L and because of a
petition of Howard Lawrence, I translated it from the spanish
version to the English version. The text does no reflect my own
point of view, its just a traslation.
Best wishes,
Gustavo Morejon
gmorejon@xxxxxxxxxxx
*****************************************************************
* ASSOCIACAO CULTURAL "JOSE' MARTI'" DE SAO PAULO *
* *
* <<Servico Informativo Eletronico>> *
* *
* email: irabello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx *
* rcue@xxxxxxxxxxx *
* fones: 282-0182 ou 662913 *
* Responsavel: Reynaldo Cue' *
*****************************************************************
(Transcricao do folheto promocional do Centro Wilfredo Lam)
Edicao eletronica: Reynaldo Cue'
7 MAYO ------------------------------------------------->30 JUNIO
.................................................................
: : : :
: : B I E N A L : :
:.....:...................................................:.....:
: : : :
: Q : BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB : D :
: : BBBHHHHHHHHHBBBBBBBBBBBB : :
: : BBBBBHHHHHHHHHBBBBBBBBBB : E :
: : HHHHHHHHH : :
: U : HHHHHHHHH : :
: : HHHHHHHHH : L :
: : 555555555555HHHHHHHHH : :
: : 5555555555555555HHHHHHHHH55 : A :
: I : 555555555555555555HHHHHHHHH5555 : :
: : 55555555555555555555HHHHHHHHH555555 : :
: : 555555555555555555555HHHHHHHHH5555555 : H :
: : 5555555555555555555555HHHHHHHHH55555555 : :
: N : 5555555555555555555555HHHHHHHHH55555555 : A :
: : 555555555555555555555555555555555555555 : :
: : 5555555555555555555555555555555555555 : B :
: : 55555555555555555555555555555555555 : :
: T : 5555555555555555555555555555555 : A :
: : 55555555555555555555555555 : :
: : 5555555555555555555 : N :
: : : :
: A : : A :
:.....:...................................................:.....:
: : : :
: : 1 9 9 4 : :
:.....:...................................................:.....:
CENTRO WILFREDO LAM
------------------------------------------------------------------
The WILFREDO LAM CENTER is cultural institution dedicated to
the study, research and promotion of contemporary visual arts
on developing nations on Africa, Latin America, Asia, The
Carbean zone and Middle East, also called The thirth world.
It was created on 1983 like a way to render Wilfredo Lam, one
of the greatest artists of the century whose work resume, as an
exemplary synthesis, the thrith world vocation on universality,
starting on a deep recreation of its roots and traditions.
The Wilfredo Lam Center has its headquarters on the building
that once were, on the XVIII century, the mansion of the Condes
de Penalver, on Empedrado street and San Ignacio, located on
the Plaza de la Catedral, on the old Habana, Humanity Heritage.
The building have plenty of exhibition rooms, library area and
locals for workshop and other activities.
The Center counts with some 1250 works on different
contemporary visual art manifestations of countries located on
Africa, America, Asia, The Caribean zone and Middle East. Its
very valuable and rich collection let exhibit periodically the
works of authors from the most diverse regions.
The BIENAL DE LA HABANA is the main work of the Wilfredo Lam
Center and warrant a space for the knowledge of the thirth
world artists as well as for its current problems and
perspective reflection and exchange.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------
\ F I F T H B I E N A L D E L A H A B A N A /
----------------------------------------------
/ A R T, S O C I E T Y & R E F L E C T I O N \
----------------------------------------------
The BIENAL DE LA HABANA is an international event of visual
arts that has its first edition on May of 1984 and meet artists
from Africa, Asia, Latin America, The caribean zone and Middle
East. In this event has been exposed numerous and significant
works of artists from that regions and it was a place to meet
together groups of important critics, museum directors,
researchers and artists from all around the world.
From its four past editions it turned on a priviliged place to
meet anyone interested on the knowledge of the best of the fine
arts of the thirth world, unknown on more of the international
events of current art.
The QUINTA BIENAL DE LA HABANA will meet on may 1994 and will,
as its a habit, ocupy the main spaces on the Capital, plus many
spaces on other provinces this time.
Around the QUINTA BIENAL, as it happened on past ocasions, is
the _thirth world art_. Even as the main emphasis will be on
the current artistic creation of the thirth world countries and
its relation with the rest of the world, the reflections will
lead to the current society universal problems, which
expression, on the metioned regions, aquire special
dimensions.
By selecting the reflection themes, we take into account the
existence of specific problems inside each thirth world
country, and the fact that artists from this countries, by
moving to highly developed countries expres on its works some
of that new problems and some even new starting on the
relationship with other contexts.
The QUINTA BIENAL DE LA HABANA wish to facilitate a wide debate
on the role of art on today's world and the factors that favor
or stop its authentic development. On that sense, it has been
structured on a way that permit the exchange between critics,
contemporary art museum directors, international exposition
curators, art journal directors, art gallery personal,
collectionists and the general public and has been conceived as
an interrelation process between the expositions and critic
workshops.
The BIENAL will be made by expositions and workshops where, by
the point of view of the thirth world countries, will be
discussed part of the problems afecting or stopping a better
understanding of its artistic creation.
:::: EXPOSITION CHARACTERIZATION
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There will be a participation of around 150 artists whose
works, on an artistic language and a reflection level, will
contribute to the expression of the complex reality of the
world of today, according with the context particularities
satisfying the expectatives of its own contemporarity on that
kind of events. Will be exposed works ready, on process and
creative projects, without atention to any manifestation
barrier on visual arts.
Expositions must be monographic, individual or colective, and
must be oriented to the following themes:
1- THE PHYSICAL AND HUMAN ENVIRONMENT OF THE THIRTH WORLD
The growing deterioration of the environment and historic
growing harms of its countries and the way that it is reflected
on the current art; the particularities of this reality, from
and inside point of view of the countries; the cities
environment, the growing poverty, violence, the harmful
consecuences of ecological transformations, among other themes
will be discussed as phenomenons that happens and has an
historical explanation.
2- MIGRATIONS AND ART
The progresive augment of migration phenomenons between poor
and rich nations loooking for the promised land, is causing
severe social and individual traumas for both sides. The
migration phenomena, by the internal point of view of the
thirth world countries and inside the countries with a big
number of migrants, offer a wide variety of analysis
posibilities. This theme will emphasize on intercultural shock
produced inside the countries where migrations are directed to
and the transformations that it cause by assimilation, reject,
direct or indirect contamination on this artists work; the
contradictions between the integration disposition to the media
and the difference feelings.
3- MARGINATE
The marginate expression operated on the current society are
visible both out and inside the thirth world. Contemporary art
get each time more and more the voices of the people wishing to
be heared, and the artists are fighting to obtain the space and
the recognition denied to them. The theme will emphasize on the
marginate expressions as a consecuence of racism, social
differences, woman conditions, among other thems.
4- COMUNICATION WAYS, CONSUMISM AND ART
The information systems internationalization made by
transformations of development homogenize each time more and
more the planet citizen preferences. Distribution of consume
products, present even on the most hidden places on earth
contribute to the unification of some preferences within
population. The thirth world artists has assumed this facts in
some ways, giving diverse answers on the most wide forms of
expression that will be showed.
5- UTOPY AND ART
The dreams and utopies that generates daily fightings
forsurvival and spiritual and material improvement of man,
always has been themes that got the artists interest. This time
will be discussed the artistic creations related to the social
and individual aspirations in the thirth world. A human
dimension reflected as a part of the reality that, even with
its dramatism, haven't killed its spirituality.
6- POPULAR SOUL IN ART
Life acquire some pecularities that, in many cases, are
asociated with festivities, celebrations and rituals deeply
rooten on people's conscience. Many of them, on thirth world
countries, are acompanied by a very peculiar artistic
production linked to traditions, preferences and daily life
aspects. On that context we will work with productions of a
wide range of characters, on its direct expressions as well as
in those that translates to the symbolic languages, popular art
elements.
All of this subjects, dealed on a global or particular way,
will be represented by one or more artists on spaces previously
defined for exhibition and may be modified, after the visit of
the Centro Wilfredo Lam specialists visit to each of the
countries.:::
....
:::: CRITICISM WORKSHOP CHARACTERISTICS
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
With the purpose of count with the wider diversity of points of
view on the analysis and in order to favor a constructive an
rich dialog on the different thems, the workshops will be
combined with the participation of the artists and contemporary
art experts from all around the world. The common denominator
is basically the interest of a better understanding of
universal contemporary art.
That workshops will be developed in the form of a round table,
disertations and conferences.
1- LIFE WORKSHOP ON THE BIENAL DE LA HABANA
(Text...)
2- IDENTITY DEFINITIONS
(Text...)
3- UNIVERSALITY AND ITS REDEFINITION
(Text...)
4- ON THE WAY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
(Text...)
....
:::: ARTISTS WORKSHOPS AND MEETING CHARACTERIZATION
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wishing to create the space or mutual richness for the artists,
it has been organized, coordinating with many institutions all
around the country, activities directed to promote the exchange
of experiences between the creators of different manifestations
and visual expressions.
This workshops has been conceived combined the work of
creation, with sessions of discussions on themes of interst for
the participants.
I International meeting of students of fine arts
-------------------------------------------------
Del 15 al 25 de junio
The Superior Institute of Art and the schools National of Art
and San Alejandro will open its classrooms to different
workshops of creativity for cuban students and foreign students
wishing to participate. There must be five workshops with
artists whose work is a challenge for its imagination,
development of diverse materials and artistic sense.
Students from all around the world can assist, previous the
tuition payment. It will take place on the Faculty of Fine Arts
of the Superior Institute of Art, at La Habana.
I International meeting of ceramics of small format
----------------------------------------------------
from april 26 to May 5
(Text...)
III International Simposium on Sculpture "Form, Sun and Sand" '94
-----------------------------------------------------------------
From March 5 to may 5
II international workshop on photographic image
------------------------------------------------
From May 14 to May 24
V Meeting and International Workshop on Serigraphy
--------------------------------------------------
From May 14 to June 30
International Workshop on engraving
------------------------------------
From May 14 to June 30
....
:::: PARTICIPANT COUNTRIES
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Argelia, Argentina, Alemania, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados,
Belgica, Benin, Bolivia, Brasil, Camerun, Canada', Chile,
Republica Popular China, Colombia, Congo, Costa de Marfil, Costa
Rica, Cuba, Curazao, Republica Dominicana, Ecuador, Egipto,
Estados Unidos de America, Filipina, Ghana, Guadalupe, Guatemala,
Guinea, Honduras, Holanda, India, Indonesia, Inglaterra, Jamaica,
Kenya, Libanao, Martinica, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Sierra Leona, Isla de la Reunion,
Senegal, Sudafrica, Tailandia, Togo, Trinidad Tobago, Tunez,
Uruguay, Venezuela, Zaire, Zimbabwe.
....
:::: SOCIAL AND RECREATIVE ACTIVITIES
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Beach, historical, recreational and patrimonial places. There
must be organized options of diverse kinds, for your better
ejoy of the cuban capital.
....
:::: HOMAGE
^^^^^^^^^
For the TEN years since the BIENAL was inagurated there must be
some homages to personalities and institutions, national and
internationaly that has contributed sistematically to the event
development.
Then you have a calendar, information on the requirements to get a
visa, air lines and information for Brazilian citizens.
The following message appeared on DESIGN-L and because of a
petition of Howard Lawrence, I translated it from the spanish
version to the English version. The text does no reflect my own
point of view, its just a traslation.
Best wishes,
Gustavo Morejon
gmorejon@xxxxxxxxxxx
*****************************************************************
* ASSOCIACAO CULTURAL "JOSE' MARTI'" DE SAO PAULO *
* *
* <<Servico Informativo Eletronico>> *
* *
* email: irabello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx *
* rcue@xxxxxxxxxxx *
* fones: 282-0182 ou 662913 *
* Responsavel: Reynaldo Cue' *
*****************************************************************
(Transcricao do folheto promocional do Centro Wilfredo Lam)
Edicao eletronica: Reynaldo Cue'
7 MAYO ------------------------------------------------->30 JUNIO
.................................................................
: : : :
: : B I E N A L : :
:.....:...................................................:.....:
: : : :
: Q : BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB : D :
: : BBBHHHHHHHHHBBBBBBBBBBBB : :
: : BBBBBHHHHHHHHHBBBBBBBBBB : E :
: : HHHHHHHHH : :
: U : HHHHHHHHH : :
: : HHHHHHHHH : L :
: : 555555555555HHHHHHHHH : :
: : 5555555555555555HHHHHHHHH55 : A :
: I : 555555555555555555HHHHHHHHH5555 : :
: : 55555555555555555555HHHHHHHHH555555 : :
: : 555555555555555555555HHHHHHHHH5555555 : H :
: : 5555555555555555555555HHHHHHHHH55555555 : :
: N : 5555555555555555555555HHHHHHHHH55555555 : A :
: : 555555555555555555555555555555555555555 : :
: : 5555555555555555555555555555555555555 : B :
: : 55555555555555555555555555555555555 : :
: T : 5555555555555555555555555555555 : A :
: : 55555555555555555555555555 : :
: : 5555555555555555555 : N :
: : : :
: A : : A :
:.....:...................................................:.....:
: : : :
: : 1 9 9 4 : :
:.....:...................................................:.....:
CENTRO WILFREDO LAM
------------------------------------------------------------------
The WILFREDO LAM CENTER is cultural institution dedicated to
the study, research and promotion of contemporary visual arts
on developing nations on Africa, Latin America, Asia, The
Carbean zone and Middle East, also called The thirth world.
It was created on 1983 like a way to render Wilfredo Lam, one
of the greatest artists of the century whose work resume, as an
exemplary synthesis, the thrith world vocation on universality,
starting on a deep recreation of its roots and traditions.
The Wilfredo Lam Center has its headquarters on the building
that once were, on the XVIII century, the mansion of the Condes
de Penalver, on Empedrado street and San Ignacio, located on
the Plaza de la Catedral, on the old Habana, Humanity Heritage.
The building have plenty of exhibition rooms, library area and
locals for workshop and other activities.
The Center counts with some 1250 works on different
contemporary visual art manifestations of countries located on
Africa, America, Asia, The Caribean zone and Middle East. Its
very valuable and rich collection let exhibit periodically the
works of authors from the most diverse regions.
The BIENAL DE LA HABANA is the main work of the Wilfredo Lam
Center and warrant a space for the knowledge of the thirth
world artists as well as for its current problems and
perspective reflection and exchange.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------
\ F I F T H B I E N A L D E L A H A B A N A /
----------------------------------------------
/ A R T, S O C I E T Y & R E F L E C T I O N \
----------------------------------------------
The BIENAL DE LA HABANA is an international event of visual
arts that has its first edition on May of 1984 and meet artists
from Africa, Asia, Latin America, The caribean zone and Middle
East. In this event has been exposed numerous and significant
works of artists from that regions and it was a place to meet
together groups of important critics, museum directors,
researchers and artists from all around the world.
From its four past editions it turned on a priviliged place to
meet anyone interested on the knowledge of the best of the fine
arts of the thirth world, unknown on more of the international
events of current art.
The QUINTA BIENAL DE LA HABANA will meet on may 1994 and will,
as its a habit, ocupy the main spaces on the Capital, plus many
spaces on other provinces this time.
Around the QUINTA BIENAL, as it happened on past ocasions, is
the _thirth world art_. Even as the main emphasis will be on
the current artistic creation of the thirth world countries and
its relation with the rest of the world, the reflections will
lead to the current society universal problems, which
expression, on the metioned regions, aquire special
dimensions.
By selecting the reflection themes, we take into account the
existence of specific problems inside each thirth world
country, and the fact that artists from this countries, by
moving to highly developed countries expres on its works some
of that new problems and some even new starting on the
relationship with other contexts.
The QUINTA BIENAL DE LA HABANA wish to facilitate a wide debate
on the role of art on today's world and the factors that favor
or stop its authentic development. On that sense, it has been
structured on a way that permit the exchange between critics,
contemporary art museum directors, international exposition
curators, art journal directors, art gallery personal,
collectionists and the general public and has been conceived as
an interrelation process between the expositions and critic
workshops.
The BIENAL will be made by expositions and workshops where, by
the point of view of the thirth world countries, will be
discussed part of the problems afecting or stopping a better
understanding of its artistic creation.
:::: EXPOSITION CHARACTERIZATION
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There will be a participation of around 150 artists whose
works, on an artistic language and a reflection level, will
contribute to the expression of the complex reality of the
world of today, according with the context particularities
satisfying the expectatives of its own contemporarity on that
kind of events. Will be exposed works ready, on process and
creative projects, without atention to any manifestation
barrier on visual arts.
Expositions must be monographic, individual or colective, and
must be oriented to the following themes:
1- THE PHYSICAL AND HUMAN ENVIRONMENT OF THE THIRTH WORLD
The growing deterioration of the environment and historic
growing harms of its countries and the way that it is reflected
on the current art; the particularities of this reality, from
and inside point of view of the countries; the cities
environment, the growing poverty, violence, the harmful
consecuences of ecological transformations, among other themes
will be discussed as phenomenons that happens and has an
historical explanation.
2- MIGRATIONS AND ART
The progresive augment of migration phenomenons between poor
and rich nations loooking for the promised land, is causing
severe social and individual traumas for both sides. The
migration phenomena, by the internal point of view of the
thirth world countries and inside the countries with a big
number of migrants, offer a wide variety of analysis
posibilities. This theme will emphasize on intercultural shock
produced inside the countries where migrations are directed to
and the transformations that it cause by assimilation, reject,
direct or indirect contamination on this artists work; the
contradictions between the integration disposition to the media
and the difference feelings.
3- MARGINATE
The marginate expression operated on the current society are
visible both out and inside the thirth world. Contemporary art
get each time more and more the voices of the people wishing to
be heared, and the artists are fighting to obtain the space and
the recognition denied to them. The theme will emphasize on the
marginate expressions as a consecuence of racism, social
differences, woman conditions, among other thems.
4- COMUNICATION WAYS, CONSUMISM AND ART
The information systems internationalization made by
transformations of development homogenize each time more and
more the planet citizen preferences. Distribution of consume
products, present even on the most hidden places on earth
contribute to the unification of some preferences within
population. The thirth world artists has assumed this facts in
some ways, giving diverse answers on the most wide forms of
expression that will be showed.
5- UTOPY AND ART
The dreams and utopies that generates daily fightings
forsurvival and spiritual and material improvement of man,
always has been themes that got the artists interest. This time
will be discussed the artistic creations related to the social
and individual aspirations in the thirth world. A human
dimension reflected as a part of the reality that, even with
its dramatism, haven't killed its spirituality.
6- POPULAR SOUL IN ART
Life acquire some pecularities that, in many cases, are
asociated with festivities, celebrations and rituals deeply
rooten on people's conscience. Many of them, on thirth world
countries, are acompanied by a very peculiar artistic
production linked to traditions, preferences and daily life
aspects. On that context we will work with productions of a
wide range of characters, on its direct expressions as well as
in those that translates to the symbolic languages, popular art
elements.
All of this subjects, dealed on a global or particular way,
will be represented by one or more artists on spaces previously
defined for exhibition and may be modified, after the visit of
the Centro Wilfredo Lam specialists visit to each of the
countries.:::
....
:::: CRITICISM WORKSHOP CHARACTERISTICS
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
With the purpose of count with the wider diversity of points of
view on the analysis and in order to favor a constructive an
rich dialog on the different thems, the workshops will be
combined with the participation of the artists and contemporary
art experts from all around the world. The common denominator
is basically the interest of a better understanding of
universal contemporary art.
That workshops will be developed in the form of a round table,
disertations and conferences.
1- LIFE WORKSHOP ON THE BIENAL DE LA HABANA
(Text...)
2- IDENTITY DEFINITIONS
(Text...)
3- UNIVERSALITY AND ITS REDEFINITION
(Text...)
4- ON THE WAY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
(Text...)
....
:::: ARTISTS WORKSHOPS AND MEETING CHARACTERIZATION
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wishing to create the space or mutual richness for the artists,
it has been organized, coordinating with many institutions all
around the country, activities directed to promote the exchange
of experiences between the creators of different manifestations
and visual expressions.
This workshops has been conceived combined the work of
creation, with sessions of discussions on themes of interst for
the participants.
I International meeting of students of fine arts
-------------------------------------------------
Del 15 al 25 de junio
The Superior Institute of Art and the schools National of Art
and San Alejandro will open its classrooms to different
workshops of creativity for cuban students and foreign students
wishing to participate. There must be five workshops with
artists whose work is a challenge for its imagination,
development of diverse materials and artistic sense.
Students from all around the world can assist, previous the
tuition payment. It will take place on the Faculty of Fine Arts
of the Superior Institute of Art, at La Habana.
I International meeting of ceramics of small format
----------------------------------------------------
from april 26 to May 5
(Text...)
III International Simposium on Sculpture "Form, Sun and Sand" '94
-----------------------------------------------------------------
From March 5 to may 5
II international workshop on photographic image
------------------------------------------------
From May 14 to May 24
V Meeting and International Workshop on Serigraphy
--------------------------------------------------
From May 14 to June 30
International Workshop on engraving
------------------------------------
From May 14 to June 30
....
:::: PARTICIPANT COUNTRIES
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Argelia, Argentina, Alemania, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados,
Belgica, Benin, Bolivia, Brasil, Camerun, Canada', Chile,
Republica Popular China, Colombia, Congo, Costa de Marfil, Costa
Rica, Cuba, Curazao, Republica Dominicana, Ecuador, Egipto,
Estados Unidos de America, Filipina, Ghana, Guadalupe, Guatemala,
Guinea, Honduras, Holanda, India, Indonesia, Inglaterra, Jamaica,
Kenya, Libanao, Martinica, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Sierra Leona, Isla de la Reunion,
Senegal, Sudafrica, Tailandia, Togo, Trinidad Tobago, Tunez,
Uruguay, Venezuela, Zaire, Zimbabwe.
....
:::: SOCIAL AND RECREATIVE ACTIVITIES
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Beach, historical, recreational and patrimonial places. There
must be organized options of diverse kinds, for your better
ejoy of the cuban capital.
....
:::: HOMAGE
^^^^^^^^^
For the TEN years since the BIENAL was inagurated there must be
some homages to personalities and institutions, national and
internationaly that has contributed sistematically to the event
development.
Then you have a calendar, information on the requirements to get a
visa, air lines and information for Brazilian citizens.