X Bienal de Nicaragua: Palacio Nacional de Cultura

Artists: Abraham Cruzvillegas, Claudia Gordillo, Jacopo Miliani, Judy Radul, Matti Braun, Patricia Belli, Raúl Quintanilla, Puppies Puppies, Sam Lipp, Will Benedict, Luis Miguel Bendaña, ÅYR, Mindy Rose Schwartz, Lin May Saeed, Lucie Stahl, Carlos Reyes, Donna Huanca, Kaoru Arima

Curated by: Oliver Martinez Kandt and Queer Thoughts

Venue: X Bienal de Nicaragua, Palacio Nacional de Cultura, Managua, Nicaragua

Date: February 11 – May 14, 2016

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and X Bienal de Nicaragua

The X Nicaragua Biennial Fundación Ortiz Gurdian was inaugurated in the cities of Managua, Leon and Bluefields commemorating its 10^th edition with the homage to the Caribbean painter June Beer (1935-1986).

The X Nicaragua Biennial is dedicated to June Beer and emphasizes artistic practices as symbolic parables of the relationship of individuals with their environment. Influenced by contemporary production in Nicaragua the exhibition´s central subject is the background, to comment on the global, natural, social and cultural schemes of today.

In June Beer work a body expresses its spatial relationship with the natural environment and culture, her verses, landscapes, portraits and representations of collective moments from the Nicaraguan Caribbean, unfold states, conditions and situations of perceptual dérives of a subjective connection with the environment and the world.

Transposing Beer´s artistic practice to address moments of our contemporaneity, the X Nicaragua Biennial invites us to look at fragments of individuality that inspire our organic / philosophical reasoning, from which collective activities emerge and the possibilities of new concurrences between the individuals and their material and sensitive environment exist.

Abraham Cruzvillegas, Autorretrato pendiente -como cadena que cimbra- satinado, sudado y circular escuchando cumbias cristianas, comenzando a leer “Después del invierno” de Guadalupe Nettel, recordando la pizca de chilacayotas, cilantro y flor de calabaza en los Maizeles coyoteros, orgulloso y feliz de transitar el sendero glorioso de Los Muchachos, que florece y retoña en los linderos de sus escombros, buscando en los registros del ruso y del canadiense signos para la redacción de un lábaro renovado y confiárselo al poblano que quiso apagar el sol de un sombrerazo. (Para Dora María Téllez), 2016