CURATOR’S

Curator’s Perspective

The Curator’s Perspective is a free, itinerant public talk series featuring established U.S. and international curators, who present on their work and research. It was developed to offer audiences ways to connect with timely information and a wide variety of international perspectives on contemporary art and curating today. The series sheds light on movements and models that are shaping the curatorial field today, addressing questions about art, culture, and the artists and exhibitions that curators look to. UPCOMING PROGRAM

Saturday, March 7, 4–5:30pm Jacopo Crivelli Visconti Americas Society, New York

© Pedro Ivo Trasferetti / Courtesy Fundaçao Bienal de São Paulo.

Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, the curator of the greatly-anticipated 34th Bienal de São Paulo, opening in September, will present on his vision and curatorial concepts behind the Bienal. Based in São Paulo, Visconti curated the Pavilion of the Republic of Cyprus at last year’s Venice Biennale, as well as the Brazilian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. In 2014, he was the curator of the 12th Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador. Other recent curatorial projects include: Memories of Underdevelopment, Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego (2017); Héctor Zamora – Dinâmica não linear, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo (2016); Sean Scully, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2015). This program is organized with Americas Society and ICI Trustee Sarina Tang, a member of the International Advisory Board of the Bienal de São Paulo.

The Curator’s Perspective series is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council, by a grant from the James Howell Foundation, and by generous contributions from the ICI Board of Trustees and ICI Access Fund. This program is also made possible by ICI Trustee Sarina Tang.

Curator’s Perspective: Ralph Rugoff, November 2, 2019, The Morgan Library & Museum.

On November 2, 2019, Ralph Rugoff, the Director of London’s Hayward Gallery, presented on May You Live in Interesting Times, the 2019 Venice Biennale for which he served as Curator and Artistic Director. Rugoff used this presentation, held just three weeks before the end of the international exhibition, to reflect on the biennial, the steps involved in conceiving a project of this scale, the concepts he chose to focus on, as well as the critical reception of the exhibition. The 2019 Venice Biennale had been characterized by a list of artists more concise than in recent years, and Rugoff discussed the work of a handful of artists who were central to his thinking. He addressed the responses to several art works in the exhibition, including the controversial project by Christoph Büchel, which evoked the death of hundreds of people attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Italy in 2015. Rugoff contrasted the reception of the work with his own reading of it and the artist’s intensions behind it. Rugoff also spoke about the architectural intervention in the Arsenale, creating a new path through the space by dividing it with plywood partitions. Conceptually, he structured and articulated the exhibition in two distinct curatorial propositions, in the Arsenale and in the Giardini. Each presented works by the same artists within a different narrative, suggesting multiple readings of the art of our times, rather than a definitive statement on it.

The Curator’s Perspective with Ralph Rugoff was presented at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York.