Foreign artists, including refugees, émigrés, and diaspora members, will be the focus of the show. Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the Venice Biennale in 2024, has laid out his plans for the 60th International Art Exhibition next year (April 20-24, 2024). His Venice show, which is entitled Outsiders All over, will zero in on “specialists who are themselves outsiders, workers, ostracizes, diasporic, émigrés, banished, and exiles”, he says in an explanation.
The term “queer artist,” which refers to “the queer artist, who has moved within different sexualities and genders, often being persecuted or outlawed,” is central to his curatorial concept. the outsider artist, like the autodidact and the so-called folk artist, who exists on the fringes of the art world; as well as the native craftsman, regularly treated as an outsider in their own territory”.
Pedrosa, who took over as curator at the end of last year, says that his show will cover economic and political issues in the future. The work is set against the backdrop of a world that is plagued by numerous crises pertaining to the movement and existence of people across countries, territories, and borders. These crises reflect the dangers and dangers of language, translation, and ethnicity, expressing differences and disparities conditioned by identity, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, wealth, and freedom,” he continues.
In a livestreamed briefing earlier today, Pedrosa said that the Biennale will have a “Nucleo Storico,” a section with works by 20th-century artists from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Africa. The international Italian artistic diaspora in the 20th century will be the subject of a separate section in the “Nucleo Storico.”
He stated, “[These are] Italian artists who travelled and moved abroad to develop their careers in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the rest of Europe. They became ingrained in local cultures and frequently played significant roles in the development of the narratives of modernism beyond Italy.”
“There has never been a curator from a Latin American country,” said Venice Biennale president Roberto Cicutto (Pedrosa is the director of MASP, the So Paulo Museum of Art).
South American artists have always had a significant presence at the Biennale. However, when they are invited by a curator who has roots in the same culture and has developed a global perspective over time, it is quite different,” Cicutto stated. This isn’t simply a stylish perspective, yet a topographical one too, very much like in film when you shoot an opposite shot of a similar scene.”
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