From September 7 to December 9, 2008, the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo ? Affective Affinities will focus on the individual experience of the spectator. The title chosen by chief-curator Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro ? appointed by the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo to conceive the show ? refers to the novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Elective Affinities (1809) and the thesis ?On the Affective Nature of Form in the Work of Art? (1949), by Mário Pedrosa.
For this edition, alongside twelve solo projects chosen by Pérez-Barreiro, the curator invited seven artist-curators to conceive group shows with total freedom in the choice of the artists and the selection of artworks ? the only requirement was that they also include artworks of their own authorship.
Mark Dion is part of the curatorial proposal of artist Antonio Ballester Moreno, sentido / comum [common / sense]. This artist approaches his curatorship at the 33rd Bienal as a way to contextualize a universe based on the close relationship between biology and culture, with references to the history of abstraction and its interaction with nature, pedagogy and spirituality.
BIENAL PAVILION
Av. Pedro Álvares Cabral
Ibirapuera Park, Gate 3
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