The Italian art critic Jacopo Crivelli Visconti was chosen as curator of the 34th Sao Paulo Biennial, one of the most important cultural events in South America, scheduled for 2020. Crivelli Visconti succeeds the Spaniard Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, responsible for last year's exhibition, entitled "Affective Affinities". The Italian expert was chosen directly by the president of the Biennale Foundation of the largest city in South America, José Olympio da Veiga Pereira, through a selection of five internal and international curators. All the projects presented were based on the assumption that “art is, par excellence, a platform for diversity of thought and an ideal medium for assembling different segments around a common project”.
Jacopo Crivelli Visconti has already set up his team to start working on the development of the 34th Biennale. The team is composed of the curator Paulo Miyada (Tomie Ohtake Institute, São Paulo) and the invited curators Carla Zaccagnini (artist, São Paulo-Malmo); Francesco Stocchi (curator of modern and contemporary art, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam); Ruth Estévez (general curator, Rose Art Museum, Boston, director, LIGA DF, Mexico City).
Crivelli Visconti, of Neapolitan origin, has lived for many years in São Paulo, Brazil, and has long-standing relationships with the Bienal de Artes. Member of the Biennale Foundation from 2001 to 2009, was also curator of the Brazilian delegation at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 as well as of the July 2018 exhibition PAC – Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan, which offered a cross-section of Brazilian art from the XNUMXs to today.
