57th ART IILA-LATIN MAY-NOVEMBER 2017 IILA-THE ITALO-LATIN AMERICAN INSTITUTE

IILA is an international intergovernmental body established in Rome in 1966. Its members are and the 20 Latin American countries (, Bolivia, , , Colombia, , , Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, , Honduras, , Nicaragua, Panama, , Peru, the Dominican Republic, and ).

In accordance to its institutional purposes IILA operates to foster collaboration between Italy and Latin America by means of a wide range of activities and initiatives. Among these are the development and coordination of research, and documentation, as well as programming with Member States in the cultural, scientific, technical, social and development aid sectors , and dissemination of related outcomes and outputs. Furthermore, it promotes international thematic and multidisciplinary events, such as the National Biannual Italy-Latin America Conferences. IILA IN THE CULTURAL SECTOR

The mission of IILA Cultural Secretariat is to support cultural initiatives and generation of information and knowledge for the establishment and strengthening of free and harmonious societies.

IILA promotes and supports Latin American and Caribbean culture, and fosters the exposure of Latin America toward Italy and Europe through its main points of strength, notably its diversity, its dynamic present, its magnificent history, its artists, its glance towards the future.

We aim at being a bridge that favors the encounter and exchange of knowledge and experiences as well as a privileged showcase of cultural excellence in Latin America. IILA-ITALO-LATIN AMERICAN INSTITUTE AT THE

IILA has been participating with its own exhibition space in the official section of the International Exhibition of Art of the Venice Biennale since 1972.

The IILA-Latin American Pavilion is the convergence center by excellence for the best artistic production in Latin America, and offers an opportunity for those countries, that cannot afford a own pavilion o exhibition venue, to give visibility to their artistic production.

After 45 years of presence in the Biennale, the IILA-Latin American Pavilion is now acknowledged as an international and permanent landmark for the diffusion of contemporary artistic production in Latin America. IILA COUNTRIES

ARGENTINA GUATEMALA URUGUAY BOLIVIA HAITI VENEZUELA BRAZIL HONDURAS ITALY CHILE MEXICO COLOMBIA NICARAGUA COSTA RICA PANAMA CUBA PARAGUAY ECUADOR PERU EL SALVADOR DOMINICAN REPUBLIC THE VENICE BIENNALE

The Venice Biennale is the world’s most prestigious and cutting edge Foundation for the promotion of contemporary arts .

The International Art Exhibition was launched in 1895. The most outstanding artists from all over the world have taken part in its 54 editions, that generated new artistic movements as well as key debates on contemporary arts . With its 501.502 visitors, the 2015 edition was very successful.

Media interest was also outstanding, with 8.000 accredited journalists, 5.450 of whom from foreign press and 2,650 from Italian media.

The 2017 Edition will be directed by , former chief curator of Musée national d’art Moderne – Centre Pompidou in Paris.

The International Art Exhibition, that will take place from May 13 to November 26, 2017 will be opened to the public on Saturday May 13th. http://www.labiennale.org/ THE 57th VENICE BIENNALE

The opening is preceded by a 3-day vernissage (May 10, 11, 12, 2017) during which period a series of press conferences, openings of pavilions and talks and debates will be organized to engage artists, intellectuals, arts critics and opinion leaders. The vernissage provides a meeting opportunity for people from politics, economy and culture at national, European and global levels.

The Art Biennale is composed of:

The Main Exhibition, which will be Directed by appointed curator, where a selected group of artists present works related to the exhibition’s theme. About a hundred artists take part in the exhibition, which is distributed in two main venues: The Biennale Pavilion at Giardini and the historical 16th century buildings of the Arsenal.

National participations of many countries from all parts of the world take place in their own pavilions, which are distributed in Giardini and Arsenale, as well as in other parts of the city of Venice. This is where the IILA Pavilion comes in, giving the opportunity for more than 15 countries from Latin America and the Caribbean to have a representation at the Biennale.

Collateral Events are organized by institutions and international partners which are related to the Biennale and approved by the artistic director. This events take place in many venues around the city, namely foundations, museums, galleries. CURATORIAL STATEMENT THE GREAT UNRAVELLING

The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman published his book “The Great Unraveling, Losing Our Way in the New Century”, in 2003 to mark the beginning of the new century, that - as it happens with every turn - brings about challenges and hopes. At that time the XXI Century had just began under the George W. Bush presidency, amid a traumatic set of events that would have changed the course of history forever. From the Twin Towers, to the wars in and Afghanistan, the beginning of the new century was not necessarily a promising one. In Latin America, on the contrary, new political experiences and regional integration processes were unfurling, with the promise of a change in the development paradigm, poverty reduction, and universal access to all those fundamental rights until then denied to the majority of the world’s population, the so-called Majority World, Somehow, Latin America was making its way out of the “lost decade”, an age of financial crises, underdevelopment, indebtedness, massive resource extraction, but also a time of consolidation of civil society and social and political actors.

These very same challenges that cross borders and sketch a global map of crisis that opens the door to opportunities and alternatives that now more than ever should transcend national borders to become global.

The lightness of a paper structure reconstructing the skeleton of a whale, the biggest of all mammals, proposes the fragility of ecosystems threatened with extinction in a future when climate change will become a constant factor of economic, political and social life of humanity.

Indigenous women reclaim their right to ancestral identity facing the progressive cultural homologation of media and globalization

A woman dressed in white evokes a cycle of violence in a country that is now entering a possible future of peace.

The transcription on a pentagram of stories of soldiers in a period of dictatorship in a Central American country, or a football match relay a past with a different code to be memorized as a song, or a game in the minds of new generations, so that it will not repeat itself. CURATORIAL STATEMENT THE GREAT UNRAVELLING 2

A school cartography to portray past cycles of resource exploitation in Latin America offers a possible hint of the contradictions and opportunities underlying current models of development and integration.

This exhibition aims at portraying the evanescence and intangibility of the passing from an age to another, with its baggage of crises and opportunities. Beyond reflecting on the passage into the new century and rather than elaborating on how history brought us from one century into another, the exhibition intends to propose a light touch journey, in contrast with the violence of the act that marked the turn into the new millennium, September 11, 2001.

Hence the proposal of a review of the key issues that have characterized the XX century and that we bring forward into the new one, in what Zygmunt Bauman and before him Antonio Gramsci defined as an interregnum, that time when you know what you leave behind but not what comes ahead of you. For this reason, the pavilion will offer a light touch journey that cannot elaborate certitudes, but rather offer an inquiry into space and time, through the works of various generations of Latin American artists that provide the opportunity to unpack - from one end and the other, the common thread of the last decades’ events.

Latin American artists that have produced their work before and during the turn of the millennium have dealt with issues that are permanent and pressing in Latin America. They belong to a generation that was characterized by a weak academic and public institutional framework of cultural management, scarce support to arts, apart from some exceptions. National identity, the construction of an historical narrative, the environment, internal displacement and massive migrations, the conflicting relationship with nature, violence and the recognition of individual and collective histories are put forward as a call to reconstruct a space of reflection on the artist’s role in the building of today’s society.

ROSA JIJON CURATOR VENUE – MUSEO NAVALE

IILA responds to it’s mission of promoting by locating the Latin-American Pavilion in one of the most interesting spaces in Venice, the Naval Museum at the entrance of the Biennale Venues.

The location therefore offers a unique and privileged context for high- level and maximum visibility exhibitions. Partnership The following is a partnership proposal with the Italo-Latin American Institute (IILA-Istituto Italo-Latino Americano) for the participation to the 2017 Venice Biennale of Arts, directed by Christine Macel and that will open on May 13, 2017.

Such partnership proposal consists of a collaboration in the organization and management of the IILA-Latin American Pavilion that will offer - as the case has been in the last decades - a selection of the most outstanding contemporary arts production in Latin America. The Pavilion will reach a highly qualified international level audience in a location of globally acknowledged prestige.

IILA proposes this opportunity to potential sponsors and/or partners (such as foundations, companies, public and private entities) interested in the co-promotion of their activities and initiatives in the artistic-cultural sector, with particular emphasis on Latin America. Their participation to the common project for a IILA-Latin American Pavilion will develop along the lines proposed herein. SPONSORSHIP MODALITIES FOR IILA-LATIN AMERICAN PAVILION

IILA Cultural Secretariat will offer specialized and high quality support in terms of communication, promotion, and coordination in the organization and management of the Pavilion. IILA also commits to foster dialogue between the sponsor (company, foundation or public or private entity) and its Latin American counterparts, to explore new projects and consolidation of current ones in all sectors of IILA’s activities. IILA will also offer the possibility of presenting the sponsor’s activities to the authorities of its 20 member states, by organizing special events and meetings in its offices.

5 modalities of sponsorship are offered:

Partner Main Sponsor Sponsor Funders Friends

Each level of sponsorship corresponds – in proportion – to a series of services aimed at enhancing sponsor’s visibility. On the basis of sponsor’s needs – IILA will develop a personalized project for collaboration. WHAT WE OFFER

By collaborating with IILA-Latin American Pavilion’s project at the upcoming Venice Art Biennale sponsors (such as companies, public and private entities, foundations) will:

•Access a privileged communication channel with private and public cultural entities in 20 Latin American countries;

•Propose their corporate image to a wide and qualified global public, composed of gallery owners, curators, collectors, museum and foundation directors, journalists, sponsors, artists and arts critics (more than 500k visitors in 2015) as well as international press and media;

•Link their brand to the Venice Biennale, the most important international event on the global arts scene.

•Share the scene - for the 6 months’ duration of the Biennale – with many of the key world re- known enterprises supporting and promoting creativity and innovation.

•Promote Latin American arts and culture, as an exclusive and high quality entry point to the economic and commercial sectors and international cultural industry.

•Ensure a positive and concrete long term and durable feedback in terms of image, communication and networking, a good value for the investment. TESE DELL’ISOLOTTO, VERNISSAGE 2015 ARSENALE, VISIBILITY

• Be part of the most cutting edge international event of contemporary arts. The Sponsor will enjoy the extraordinary opportunity of entering a creative and challenging environment, that offers an economic, political and cultural entry point, to connect its image to the embodied values of the Biennale, such as the promotion of artistic freedom, of new trends in artistic production and intercultural relations, and Latin American contemporary arts.

• Get in touch with a wide audience, attentive to new trends. The wide audience of visitors of the Biennale includes creative elites from all over the world, arts’ supporters and collectors, designers, gallery directors, experts professionals and industries in the sectors of arts, design and communication, students, families, tourists.

• Benefit from a multiplier of media interest. The Art Exhibition attracts the substantial interest of Italian, European, Latin American, and worldwide media, with a growing number of accredited journalists and media (press, web and social networks, TV). LEVELS OF SPONSORSHIP Partner

100.000 to 150.000 euro Main Sponsor

30.000 to 50.000

• Logo on all comunication material and exhibition colophon. • Sponsor’s exclusive page on IILA-Latin American Pavilion’s catalogue, texts, images included. • Citation on all comunication material, press releases, and special quotation during press conference. • Promotion material, comunication material, media products inside exhibition venue. Press room and Promotion Corner. • Special Invites for IILA-Latin American Pavilion Opening and Biennale Vernissage. • A number of Catalogues (to be stablished by the parts). Sponsor

15.000 to 20.000

• Logo on all comunication material and exhibition colophon. • Citation on all comunication material, press releases, and special quotation during press conference. • Special Invites for IILA-Latin American Pavilion Opening and Biennale Vernissage. • A number of Catalogues (to be stablished by the parts). Funders

6.000 to 10.000

• Logo on all comunication material and exhibition colophon. • Special Invites for IILA-Latin American Pavilion Opening and Biennale Vernissage. •A number of Catalogues (to be stablished by the parts). Friends

500 to 5.000

• Acknowledgement of the person, business or organization on the exhibition colophon and catalogue. REGINA JOSÉ GALINDO,GUATEMALA, , IILA-LATIN AMERICAN PAVILION, 2011. HARUN FAROCKI, , 2013, IILA-LATIN AMERICAN PAVILION. THANK YOU

Contact: Rosa Jijón [email protected] [email protected] Phone. + 39 06 684 92203