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TRIO Biennial is an international exhibition of contemporary art around the three-dimensional in his classic scope – sculpture, installations and objects – as well as in all its expanded fields – painting, photography, drawing, video and others medias as three-dimensional research.

By News Editor     21 Aug 2015    

1st TRIO Biennial

Who said that tomorrow doesn’t exist ?

September 4 – December 8, 2015

Curator: Marcus de Lontra Costa
Director: Alexandre Murucci

AGENDA

Opening Ceremony: September 5, 15:00h
Oscar Niemeyer Cultural Center – FGV

Formal sitting with the show of works by Franz Weissmann celebrating the artist, the historic inauguration of a biennial arts in Rio de Janeiro and the first culture event of the new Oscar Niemeyer Cultural Centre, one of the last legacies of the master architect for the Rio de Janeiro.

September 6, 13:00h
Vargas Memorial

Utopia – Preterites of Contemporarity

Show with three-dimensional works of political or social focus, divided into two cores – Clashes and Conflicts. On the Clashes – featuring universal and atavistic issues of social and historical frictions, both philosophical as the permanents ones. In Conflict core – a focus on the moment of crisis in Brazil and the world, confronting territory issues, diasporas, exodus, identity and hope. Within the theme of the TRIO Biennial “Who said tomorrow doesn’t exist ?”, this module is placed as its main reflection.

Artists:

  1. Afonso Tostes – Rio de Janeiro
  2. Alex Flemming – São Paulo
  3. Alexandre Colchete – Rio de Janeiro
  4. Alia Al Farsi – Oman
  5. Ana Miguel – Rio de Janeiro
  6. Anna Bella Geiger – Rio de Janeiro
  7. Armando Queiroz – Pará
  8. Betelhem Makonenn – Ethiopia
  9. Carlos Melo – Pernambuco
  10. Cat Auburn – New Zealand
  11. Cildo Meirelles – Rio de Janeiro
  12. Claudia Hersz – Rio de Janeiro
  13. Deyson Gilbert – Pernanbuco
  14. Fábio Carvalho – Rio de Janeiro
  15. Faig Ahmed – Azerbaijan
  16. Felipe Barbosa – Rio de Janeiro
  17. Gonçalo Mabunda – Mozambique
  18. Haytham Nawar – Egypt
  19. Isaque Pinheiro – Portugal
  20. José Rufino – Paraíba
  21. Khaled Hafez – Egypt
  22. Los Carpinteros – Cuba
  23. Lourival Cuquinha – Pernambuco
  24. Mahmoud Obaidi – Iraq
  25. Marcelo Silveira – Pernambuco
  26. Matheus Rocha Pitta – Rio de Janeiro
  27. Matter Bin Laheg – UAE
  28. Mauricio Ruiz – Rio de Janeiro
  29. Michal Martychowiec – Poland
  30. Mounir Fatmi – Morocco
  31. Nelson Félix – Rio de Janeiro
  32. Paul Ramirez Jonas – Honduras
  33. Paul Rosso – France
  34. Rashid Al Khalifa – Bahrain
  35. Regina de Paula – Rio de Janeiro
  36. Reginaldo Pereira – São Paulo
  37. Rok Bogataj – Slovenia
  38. Sadik AlFraji – Iraq
  39. Shilpa Gupta – India
  40. Sholpan Sharbakova –Kazakhstan
  41. Susan Mains – Granada
  42. Tom Dale – Great Britain
  43. Vik Muniz – Rio de Janeiro
  44. Vincent JF Huang – Vanuatu
  45. Vitor Cesar – Ceará
  46. Washington Silvera – Paraná

September 6, 17:00h
IED Urca

Reverberations – Crossed Borders of Three-dimensionality

An overview of the three-dimensional research, regarding its relationship with everyday life, their connections and intersections with other creative areas that meet real life – design, architecture, science, fashion, literature, memory. A cut in the triumph of Duchampian precepts that today are opposed to our increasingly virtual life, giving the physical order of the world, a more broad and necessary function.

Artists:

  1. Alexandre Mazza – Rio de Janeiro
  2. Allen Glatter – USA
  3. Ana Linnemann – Rio de Janeiro
  4. C.L. Salvaro – Rio de Janeiro
  5. Cristián Silva-Avaria – Chile
  6. Daniel Acosta – Rio Grande do Sul
  7. Doma – Argentina
  8. Evandro Soares – Goiás
  9. Felippe Moraes – Rio de Janeiro
  10. Gabriela Noujaim – Rio de Janeiro
  11. Ge Orthof – Rio de Janeiro
  12. Gisela Milman – Rio de Janeiro
  13. Hoss Haley – USA
  14. Leo Videla – Rio de Janeiro
  15. Luciano Zanette – Rio Grande do Sul
  16. Luiz Monken – Rio de Janeiro
  17. Monica Penazzi – Italy
  18. Osvaldo Carvalho – Rio de Janeiro
  19. Paulo Nazareth – Minas Gerais
  20. Paulo Pereira – Bahia
  21. Peter Robinson – New Zealand
  22. Rashid Al Khalifa – Bahrain
  23. Rodrigo Matheus – São Paulo
  24. Rodrigo Sassi – São Paulo
  25. Rommulo Vieira Conceição – Bahia
  26. Tom Dale – Great Britain
  27. Toz – Bahia

September 7, 18:00h
Bank of Brazil Cultural Centre

Form and Matter – Three-dimensional Boundaries in Expanded Field

A look on the materic concepts in three-dimensional production, works that explore the limits of the form research, presenting works perishable, organic, edible, invisible, atomic, sound, waste, robotic, mechanical and technological, and an overview on the three-dimensional creation presents in its expanded fields – painting, photography, drawing, video and performance.

Artists:

  1. Beth Jobim – Rio de Janeiro
  2. Celina Portella – Rio de Janeiro
  3. Dane Mitchell – New Zealand
  4. Débora Engel – Rio de Janeiro
  5. Diango Hernández – Cuba
  6. Eliane Prolik – Paraná
  7. Floriano Romano – Rio de Janeiro
  8. Gisele Camargo – Rio de Janeiro
  9. Han Ho – Coréia do Sul
  10. Joseph Kosuth – USA
  11. Marcos Chaves – Rio de Janeiro
  12. Marina Abramović – Serbia
  13. Pedro Motta – Minas Gerais
  14. Ricardo Alcaide – Venezuela
  15. Rodolpho Parigi – São Paulo
  16. Tiago Tebet – São Paulo
  17. Tom Dale – Great Britain
  18. Valerie Hegarty – USA
  19. Vanderley Lopes – Rio de Janeiro
  20. Zavén Paré – France

September 8, 18:00h (time to be confirmed)
Fine Arts National Museum

Reflections on the Reflection – Dynamics of Cinetisme in Three-dimensional

An exhibition that explores mirrorings and opacities issues in the three-dimensional construction, from works whose dynamic proposed a reading about the reflex, as a kinetic possibility of the sculptural object, a tradition that began in Brancusi and goes till Anish Kapoor.

Artists:

  1. Anish Kapoor – Great Britain
  2. Arthur Lescher – São Paulo
  3. Ayrson Heráclito – Bahia
  4. Bruno Borne – Rio Grande do Sul
  5. Cildo Meireles – Rio de Janeiro
  6. Cláudio Alvarez – Argentina
  7. Cleber Machado – São Paulo
  8. Constantin Brancusi – Romania
  9. Elian Stolarsky – Uruguay
  10. Eliane Prolik – Paraná
  11. Eyal Gever – Israel
  12. Heleno Benardi – Rio de Janeiro
  13. Hilal Sami Hilal – Espirito Santo
  14. Hugo Mendes – Paraná
  15. Ivan Navarro – Argentina
  16. Marcia Xavier – Minas Gerais
  17. Marta Jourdan – Rio de Janeiro
  18. Mônica Piloni – São Paulo
  19. Valeska Soares – Minas Gerais
  20. Vauluizo Bezerra – Sergipe

September 10, 11:00h
Castro Maya Museum

Gravity – Tension and Elasticity

Works in which the three-dimensional research focus are tensions equations and elasticity coefficients used as construction parameter of a formal idea and using as tools, the gravitational force as an external vector, in the final composition of the artistic object.

Artists:

  1. Ana Holck – Rio de Janeiro
  2. Lara Felipe – Espirito Santo
  3. Marc Schmitz – Mongolia
  4. Maxim Malhado – Bahia
  5. Osvaldo Gaia – Pará
  6. Tobias Putrih – Slovenia
  7. Xavier Veilhan – France

September 10, 11:00h
Parque das Ruinas Cultural Center

Gravity – Equilibrium and Balance

Artworks in which the gravitational force is the main vector of the artist’s research, be like as real parameter, quantum, either as aesthetic/poetic simulacrum of the three-dimensional creation, where the final shape of the work always presents the question of equilibrium and the dynamics of balance as an aesthetic reason.

Artists:

  1. Ana Dantas – Rio de Janeiro
  2. Asher Mains – Granada
  3. Dane Mitchel – New Zealand
  4. Flávio Cerqueira – Rio de Janeiro
  5. Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich – Russia
  6. Joseph Klibansky – Netherlands
  7. Manfred Kielnhofer – Austria
  8. Nazareth Pacheco – Rio de Janeiro
  9. Raul Mourão – Rio de Janeiro
  10. Tulio Pinto – Rio Grande do Sul

September 10, 19:00h
National Historic Museum

Transversalities of Tropical Identities

A view of the three-dimensional production whose research finds as formal results, color overflows and materials that bind its identities to some tropical latitude, found in artists from around the world and that reverberate aesthetic ideals close to the major movements in the production of Brazilian art, such as Tropicália, the Pops Vanguards, the culture of Carnivalization, The Baroque, the popular culture and other emotional-aesthetic ballast connections.

Artists:

  1. Almandrade – Bahia
  2. Andrea Brown – Rio de Janeiro
  3. Bruno Miguel – Rio de Janeiro
  4. Camille Kachani – São Paulo
  5. Carina Bokel Becker – Rio de Janeiro
  6. Carlos Krauz – Rio Grande do Sul
  7. Daniel Buren – France
  8. Deneir Martins – Rio de Janeiro
  9. Denise Milan – São Paulo
  10. Estela Sokol – São Paulo
  11. Giuseppe Linardi – Italy
  12. Henrique Oliveira – São Paulo
  13. Joana Vasconcelos – Portugal
  14. Laerte Ramos – São Paulo
  15. Laurence Jenkell – USA
  16. Leandro Gabriel – Minas Gerias
  17. Luiz Hermano – Ceará
  18. Marcelo Jácome – Rio de Janeiro
  19. Marepe – Bahia
  20. Maria Nepomuceno – Rio de Janeiro
  21. Marie Helene Mercier – Rio de Janeiro
  22. Nelson Leirner – São Paulo
  23. Pedro Paulo Domingues – Rio de Janeiro
  24. Raphaël Zarka – France
  25. Raquel Nava – Rio de Janeiro
  26. Sanagê Cardoso – Distrito Federal
  27. Vivian Caccuri – São Paulo

Image: City of Arts, Rio de Janeiro. Photo Courtesy TRIO Biennale.