The Meetings on Art return to the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale to explore some of the key themes of Adriano Pedrosa’s Exhibition.

The outsider artist, the self-taught artist and the figure of the so-called artista popular in Latin America, are among those artistic subjectivities that have been excluded or marginalised from the grand narratives of Modernism and Contemporary Art. Speakers in this panel present curatorial and scholarly perspectives that have blurred the boundaries between fine and applied arts or craft, making way for the vernacular and the popular.

Introduction by Sofia Gotti, artistic organiser, 60th International Art Exhibition.

Speakers:

Lynne Cooke, Senior Curator in the Department of Modern at Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. “Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction”, her most recent exhibition, will travel to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, in November 2024, and MoMA, New York in April 2025.

Ticio Escobar, Paraguayan curator, professor, art critic, and essayist, has written over fifteen books and received numerous international honours, including five honorary doctorates and the Bartolomé de las Casas Award for his defence of Indigenous causes. He has served as Director of Culture of Asunción and Minister of Culture of Paraguay.

Miguel A. López, writer and currently co-curator of the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. He is also Chief Curator of Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City.

Rodrigo Moura, curator, editor and writer. He is Chief Curator at El Museo del Barrio, New York.

Photo: Yinka Shonibare, ph: Marco Zorzanello, La Biennale di Venezia