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Art from all five continents in 2009 Havana Biennial
Since next March 27th and until April 30th more than 300 creators from 45 countries will come together in this capital. There will be people such as the Puerto Rican Antonio Martorell and the Uruguayan Luis Camnitzer, the Argentinean León Ferrari, the Japanese Setsuko Ono and the French-Canadian Hervé Fischer.

The president of the Organizing Committee, Rubén del Valle, pointed out in a press conference that this edition will be dedicated to the integration and resistance of the people in globalization times, one of the problems that affect the world the most.

In the collective projects Mexico and Colombia will be widely represented with the exhibitions El maíz es nuestra vida (Corn is out life) and Sin Horizonte (Without horizons), respectively.

Even though its main venue will be the Morro-Cabaña Complex, where most of the exhibitions will be held, the guests will also occupy a space all over the capital.

In Old Havana, a World Heritage Site since 1982, there will be ten permanent sites with some of the foreign participants such as the Chicano Guillermo Gómez Peña and an exhibition dedicated to the recently deceased Japanese painter Shigeo Fukuda.

A day earlier, on March 26, the adjoining exhibitions will be opened, among them Chelsea visita La Habana (Chelsea visits Havana), by thirty artists from that location in New York.

The Biennale was founded in 1984 following an initiative of the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, after the death of the painter Wifredo Lam. His main objective is, according to the organizers, to create a space of confrontation and reflection on the work of plastic art in the world.


(Cubarte)

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