VENICE BIENNALE TIMELINE

1948

The institution restarts its activity after the culmination of fascism.

New Statute, President Directors of the sectors: Cinema, Music, and stories,6 but questioned by Miguel Fascioli in his work on research “The national pavilion at the Venice Biennale,” based on documentation that describes the use of that space during previous years as an exhibition space, used by Turkey, Tunisia and the island of Malta. Likewise, Fascioli affirms that because it is a space built inside the hill, it seems complicated to access to fulfill storage functions. 7

In 1968, student protests hindered the inauguration of the Biennial. However, they produced institutional changes that culminated in a new Statute (1973), a structure around a board that had to elect the President and nominate the Directors of the different sectors: Visual Arts, Cinema, Music, and Theater. In 1975, under the presidency of Car-

1- “On December 23, the Italian Government approved the reform of the Biennale, presented by the Minister of Culture, which transformed the Biennale into a Foundation open to contributions from the private sector.” See more: Venice Biennale official page, History: www.biennale.org/en/history

2- See more: Official page of the Venice Biennale, History: https://www.labiennale. org/en/history

3- Miguel Fascioli, 2012, Research project: The national pavilion at the Venice Biennale, p. 9.

4- A concession that today is renewed every 19 years, with the next renewal in 2027. See more: Uruguay. Ministry of Exterior Relations (2015): http://www.mrree.gub.uy/

Economic crisis 1982

Temporary Framework (00-17)

Economic crisis 2002

Dictatorship (1973/85)

2020

1973 President and the different Visual Arts, Music, Theater

1975

First Architecture exhibition called “About Mulino Stucky”.

1980

First international architecture exhibition “La presenza del passato” P. Portoghesi lo Ripa di Meana, the first Architecture exhibition called “A proposo del Mulino Stucky” emerged —as an extension of the Visual Arts Sector— under the direction of Vittorio Gregotti, followed by “Werkbund 1907 Alle origini del design”, “Il razionalismo e l’architettura in Italia durante il fascismo” and “Europa-America, centro storico, suburbo” in 1976; and “Utopia e crisi dell’antitinatura. Architectural Intentions in Italy” in 1978.

It was not until 1980, under the presidency of Giuseppe Galasso, that Paolo Portoghesi was given the direction of the Architecture sector and directed the first international architecture exhibition called “La presenza del passato,” 8 which, together with the “Teatro del Mondo” in Bacino San Marco carried out by Aldo Rossi in 1979, position frontend/page?1,inicio,bienal-de-venecia,O,es,0,

5- “Erected in 1958 due to the need to serve the XXIX Biennale, the Uruguayan government requested the building the following year...” Marco Mulazzani in “Guide to the Padiglioni of the Biennale of Venice of 1887” page 120. (Milano, 1988)

6- See publication on the FADU website: http://www.fadu.edu.uy/patio/?p=40721 and http://www.fadu.edu.uy/sac/exposiciones/venecia-uy/

7- “In particular, the Uruguayan pavilion is located on a small hill, called San Antonio, on the top of which there was previously a small square surrounded by a mountain of chestnut trees and acacias, many of which are still maintained today surrounding the modest perimeter of the pavilion, framing his façade.” Miguel Fascioli, 2012,

2020 Interruption due to Pandemic

2021 Restart

Venice and the Biennale in the great discussions on postmodern architecture on the international scene. Unfortunately, during this period, Uruguay did not participate in the Venice Biennale due to its political situation until the return to democracy.

Research project: The national pavilion at the Venice Biennale, p. 13.

8- “... is the riflessione sul cosiddetto Postmodern movement. Such a movement became in discussion the Modern, with its many legati al nuovo, alla tecnologia e alla purezza delle forme geometrice. Poiché il presente sembra non offerrire ormai nulla di new rispetto al pastato, ecco che il Postmoderno suggestisce una nuova visione sincronica della Historia, che venta serbatoio infinite di immagini e suggestivi, da cui gli architetti possono recuperare liberamente forme, stilemi ed elementi decorativi.”

See more on Official website of the Venice Biennale: https://www.labiennale.org/it/ storia-della-biennale-architettura

Call, Jury and Advisors

Sponsored by the Ministry of External relationships, the Municipality of Montevideo with Mariano Arana as mayor, and the embassies of Spain, France and Italy.

Dean

Ruben Otero

Ministry of Education and Culture

Ministry of External relationships

Minister: Antonio Mercader

Ruben Otero

Minister: Leandro Guzmán

Minister: Didier Opertti

Direct designation of the Dean. Closed call to professors (grades 3 and 4)

Dean: Salvador Scheloto According to file 031130-001416-08 The dean selects the proposal

Form: by File

Minister: Jorge Brovetto

Minister: Reinaldo Apolo

Minister: Ing. Maria Simón

Director of Culture: Luis Mardones

Minister: Dr. Gonzalo Fernández

Director of Culture: Carlos Flanagan

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Montevideo: a city for a theater, a theater for a city.

Proposals Team

Curators: Carlos Pascula and Alvaro Fariña

Advisor curator: Ricardo Pascale

Uruguay does not make proposals for the 2002 and 2004 Architecture Biennials.

In an attempt to participate under the deanship of Ruben Otero, the School sends the Architect Gustavo Vera Ocampo to monitor the state of the pavilion. He discovered a compromised situation where homeless people had occupied that space. This intention was frustrated by the economic crisis our country was experiencing at that time and the diffuse responsibility that the Ministries of Education and Culture and Foreign Relations with the cause. The reason why in 2004, the use of the pavilion was ceded to Argentina.

Therefore, Uruguay lost the opportunity to participate in the eighth exhibition, under the theme “Next,” proposed by the writer Deyan Sudjic, and in the ninth exhibition, “Metamorph,” directed by the architectural historian Kurt W. Forster. As a result, we a result, we lost the opportunity to participate in the discussion on the scope of new technologies in the production of architecture that had been a constant in these two editions. Moreover, this interval delayed working on the logic that would allow the structure to be given to architecture submissions.

Venice Biennale

Theme: Less Aesthetics, More Ethics.

Curator: Massimiliano Fuksas

Theme: Next Curator: Deyan Sudjic

Theme: Metamorph

Curator: Kurt W. Forster

“MONTEVIDEO SEMINARS, Spaces For Collective Reflection And Proposals On Urban Themes”

Curator: Cristina Bausero

Advisor curator: - - -