57th VENICEARTBIENNALEIILA-LATINAMERICANPAVILIONMAY-NOVEMBER2017

IILA-THEITALO-LATINAMERICANINSTITUTE

IILA is an international intergovernmental body established in Rome in 1966. Itsmembers are Italy and the 20 Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti,Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic,Uruguay and Venezuela).

In accordance to its institutional purposes IILA operates to foster collaborationbetween Italy and Latin America by means of a wide range of activities andinitiatives. Among these are the development and coordination of research, anddocumentation, as well as programming with Member States in the cultural,scientific, technical, social and development aid sectors , and dissemination ofrelated outcomes and outputs. Furthermore, it promotes international thematicand multidisciplinary events, such as the National Biannual Italy-Latin AmericaConferences.

IILAINTHECULTURALSECTOR

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

IILA promotes and supports Latin American and Caribbean culture, and fosters theexposure 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 glancetowards the future.

We aim at being a bridge that favors the encounter and exchange of knowledge andexperiences as well as a privileged showcase of cultural excellence in Latin America.

IILA-ITALO-LATIN AMERICAN INSTITUTEAT THE VENICE BIENNALE

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

The IILA-Latin American Pavilion is the convergence center by excellence for the bestartistic production in Latin America, and offers an opportunity for those countries, thatcannot afford a own pavilion o exhibition venue, to give visibility to their artisticproduction.

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

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57th VeniceBiennale

THE VENICE BIENNALE

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

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

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

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

The International Art Exhibition, that will take place from May 13 toNovember 26, 2017 will be opened to the public on Saturday May 13th.

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

The Art Biennale is composed of:

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

National participations of many countries from all parts of the world take place in their ownpavilions, which are distributed in Giardini and Arsenale, as well as in other parts of the city ofVenice. This is where the IILA Pavilion comes in, giving the opportunity for more than 15 countriesfrom 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 theBiennale and approved by the artistic director. This events take place in many venues around thecity, namely foundations, museums, galleries.

CURATORIALSTATEMENTTHE GREAT UNRAVELLING

TheGreatUnraveling:LosingOurWayintheNewCenturyPaulKrugman

PaulKrugmanpublishedhisbook“TheGreatUnraveling,LosingOurWayintheNewCentury”,in2003tomarkthebeginningofthenewcentury,that- asithappenswitheveryturn- bringsaboutchallengesandhopes.AtthattimetheXXICenturyhadjustbeganundertheGeorgeW.Bushpresidency,amidatraumaticsetofeventsthatwouldhavechangedthecourseofhistoryforever. FromtheTwinTowers,tothewarsinIraqandAfghanistan, thebeginningofthenewcenturywasnotnecessarilyapromisingone.InLatinAmerica,onthecontrary,newpoliticalexperiencesandregionalintegrationprocesseswereunfurling,withthepromiseofachangeinthedevelopmentparadigm,povertyreduction,anduniversalaccesstoallthosefundamentalrightsuntilthendeniedtothemajorityoftheworld’spopulation,theso-calledMajorityWorld,Somehow,LatinAmericawasmakingitswayoutofthe“lostdecade”,anageoffinancialcrises,underdevelopment,indebtedness,massiveresourceextraction,butalsoatimeofconsolidationof civilsocietyandsocialandpoliticalactors.

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 evershould 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 withextinction 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 codeto be memorized as a song, or a game in the minds of new generations, so that it will not repeat itself.

CURATORIALSTATEMENTTHE 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 underlyingcurrent 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. Beyondreflecting on the passage into the new century and rather than elaborating on how history brought us from one century into another, the exhibition intends topropose 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 andbefore 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, thepavilion will offer a light touch journey that cannot elaborate certitudes, but rather offer an inquiry into space and time, through the works of various generationsof 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 LatinAmerica. 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, theconflicting relationship with nature, violence and the recognition of individual and collective histories are put forward as a call to reconstruct a space of reflection onthe artist’s role in the building of today’s society.

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VENUE– MUSEONAVALE

IILA responds to it’s mission of promoting contemporary art by locatingthe Latin-American Pavilion in one of the most interesting spaces inVenice, 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-IstitutoItalo-Latino Americano) for the participation to the 2017 Venice Biennale of Arts, directedby Christine Macel and that will open on May 13, 2017.

Such partnership proposal consists of a collaboration in the organization and managementof 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. ThePavilion will reach a highly qualified international level audience in a location of globallyacknowledged 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 activitiesand 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 developalong the lines proposed herein.

SPONSORSHIPMODALITIESFORIILA-LATINAMERICANPAVILION

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

5 modalities of sponsorship are offered:

PartnerMain SponsorSponsorFundersFriends

Each level of sponsorship corresponds – in proportion – to a series of services aimed atenhancing sponsor’s visibility. On the basis of sponsor’s needs – IILA will develop a personalizedproject for collaboration.

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

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

•Propose their corporate image to a wide and qualified global public, composed of galleryowners, curators, collectors, museum and foundation directors, journalists, sponsors, artistsand 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 globalarts scene.

•Sharethescene- forthe6months’durationoftheBiennale– withmanyofthekeyworldre-knownenterprisessupportingandpromotingcreativityandinnovation.

•Promote Latin American arts and culture, as an exclusive and high quality entry point to theeconomic 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.

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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 challengingenvironment, that offers an economic, political and cultural entry point, to connect its imageto the embodied values of the Biennale, such as the promotion of artistic freedom, of newtrends 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 andindustries 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, andworldwide media, with a growing number of accredited journalists and media (press, web andsocial networks, TV).

LEVELSOFSPONSORSHIP

Partner

100.000to150.000euro

Main Sponsor

30.000 to 50.000

• Logoonallcomunicationmaterialandexhibitioncolophon.

• Sponsor’sexclusivepageonIILA-LatinAmericanPavilion’scatalogue,texts,imagesincluded.

• Citationonallcomunicationmaterial,pressreleases,andspecialquotationduringpress

conference.

• Promotionmaterial,comunicationmaterial,mediaproductsinsideexhibitionvenue.Press

roomandPromotionCorner.

• SpecialInvitesforIILA-LatinAmericanPavilionOpeningandBiennaleVernissage.

• AnumberofCatalogues(tobestablishedbytheparts).

Sponsor

15.000to20.000

• Logoonallcomunicationmaterialandexhibitioncolophon.

• Citationonallcomunicationmaterial,pressreleases,andspecialquotationduringpress

conference.

• SpecialInvitesforIILA-LatinAmericanPavilionOpeningandBiennaleVernissage.

• AnumberofCatalogues(tobestablishedbytheparts).

Funders

6.000 to 10.000

• Logoonallcomunicationmaterialandexhibitioncolophon.

• SpecialInvitesforIILA-LatinAmericanPavilionOpeningandBiennaleVernissage.

•AnumberofCatalogues(tobestablishedbytheparts).

Friends

500 to 5.000

• Acknowledgement of the person, business or organization on the

exhibition colophon and catalogue.

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Contact:RosaJijóns.cultural@iila.orgrosajijon@gmail.comPhone.+390668492203