The 36th Bienal de São Paulo has just come to an end so I thought I would share my highlights from the latest edition of the world’s second oldest art biennial.
The Bienal de São Paulo is housed in the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, designed by renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer, in the idyllic Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo. This edition was titled ‘Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice’ and it was packed full of an array of contemporary art over three floors. I felt that the works in the show were thematically disconnected from each other and, although the exhibition was divided into six thematic chapters, it was not easy to see how all of the works were related to them. It seemed a bit random but I loved the variety and quantity of works on display and the architectural design which allowed an open, free flowing experience of space and art. I also had a sense that art suspended from above, painting on different fabrics and fabric sculptures were trending and also very nice.
Highlights:
‘The Cosmic Tree’, © Nádia Taquary 
Paintings © Frank Bowling 
Painting © Frank Bowling 
‘Flow, Flower: Bloom!’, © Laure Prouvost, 
‘For Time Is the Witness of Humanity’ © Ruth Ige 
‘Portals to Submerged Worlds’, © Moffat Takadiwa 
‘Breeze/Awe/Shiver’, © Juliana dos Santos, 
‘Macuto’, © María Magdalena Campos-Pons 
‘Te Ara Uwha – mai i Kurawaka’, © Raukura Turei 
‘Terra Viva’, © Marlene Almeida 
‘Borrow Light’, © Song Dong
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