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Utopia vs. Reality: The Sao Paulo Biennial |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Michael Gibson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 1,661 Words, 10,178 Characters |
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Every two years the soaring, sprawling city of Sao Paulo, the wealthiest, most populous, most highly industrialized urban area in Brazil, opens the enormous Baroque concrete palace originally designed by Oscar Niemeyer as an exhibition hall for industrial machines and, for ten weeks, unfurls a survey of contemporary art from around the world unequaled in Latin America.
Two years ago the show had been organized around Expressionism and had offered an interesting survey of the Expressionist tradition both within Brazil and elsewhere. The exhibition revealed various little-known treasures of Brazilian popular art, and presented the current stars of neo-Expressionism from Germany, the United States, and other countries. It also confronted the public with a suffocating barrage of willfull...
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...perceive, often with mediumistic acuity, currently accepted premises along with their deeper implications. Lyotard's program of action, while acutely distressing, gives expression to assumptions taken for granted by many avant-garde artists. The alternative, which has not yet been clearly articulated, is a concept of cultural values justified by a utopian perspective. But that is another story.
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