New optimism, old normal? Biennials in Brazil and Iceland announce curators
ArtReview While biennials and festivals are once again being pushed back as successive waves of COVID-19 cases catalyse more lockdowns globally, announcements on curators and themes of future events continue unabated. In Brazil, organisers of the Mercosul Biennial announced Marcello Dantas as taking the reins of the 2022 edition. Dantas’s last biennial experience was in Vancouver, in 2014, but since the curator has become known for a series of immensely popular solo touring shows for artists in Latin America, including ambitious surveys for Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor and Michelangelo Pistolett...
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