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2009第十届哈瓦那双年展将于2009年3月27日至4月30日举行。环碧堂画廊多位艺术家受邀参加此次的展览，参展艺术家包括刘小东、陈波、仇晓飞、王承云、王庆松、熊宇、周文中，其中刘小东的个展在莫罗城堡举行，其他六位艺术家以群展形式呈现。
本届双年展的主题为“全球化时代的整合与抵制”，关注全球化时代世界各国家和地区之间文化、艺术、思想、经济、政治各方面的融合和碰撞。本着促进该地区与其他地区文化艺术对话的目的，本次双年展邀请了四十多个国家和地区的二百多位艺术家。与之前一样，哈瓦那双年展的侧重点仍然集中在拉丁美洲和加勒比地区，但是中国等亚洲国家的艺术家也在逐渐增加。
中国与古巴两国之间的友好关系由来已久。中国第一批移民在1847年到达古巴的岛屿，在那里他们作为糖料种植场的劳工取代了原来的非洲奴隶。至当代，1989年柏林墙的倒塌造成了政治地理的重构，冷战结束。从那一刻起，多米诺效应发生并延伸到世界各个角落。1990年开始古巴亦被卷入，社会形势严峻、经济衰退。另一方面，中国却从此崛起并成为当今世界一支重要的力量，它以兄弟般的姿态向古巴伸出援手，积极进行贸易合作。可以说两国之间艺术上的合作也是众望所归。
此次哈瓦那双年展以诚恳的态度邀请中国艺术家的到来。其中艺术家刘小东受邀前往哈瓦那进行为期一个多月的采风和创作，作品稍后会在特邀艺术家单元展出，展览地点位于哈瓦那的莫罗城堡。早在十年前，刘小东曾经到过古巴，这次重游古巴就变得令人期待，相信对这十年变化的感触会催生出优秀的作品。作为中国最重要的当代艺术家之一，刘小东的作品一直以现实主义题材呈现。他对于时代的变迁阵痛如此敏感，抛却形式的浮华与宏大的叙事之外，将个体的真实与时代的荒谬紧密衔接，每一个普通人物在他的作品中都不同程度地形成对生命的深意凝视，是对中国当下社会的完美注解。
参加群展的六位艺术家风格各不相同，但是他们同时代表了中国艺术家对社会发展进程的直接感受。作为本次哈瓦那双年展的特别展览，由六位艺术家组成的群展设想最初来源于2007年柏林亚太周的展览“ChinablueinBerlin”。在那次展览中，六位艺术家的作品深深打动了双年展的策展人，由此得到了在世界最重要的双年展之一的展出。此次艺术家们将会为古巴和来自世界各地的观众带来最新创作的作品，展览名称定为“China:ContemporaryArtReviewed”，既是对柏林展览的回顾，也是对中国当代艺术状态的回顾。
展览名称：第十届哈瓦那双年展
展览时间：2009年3月27日至4月30日
特邀艺术家：刘小东
展览地点：古巴哈瓦那莫罗城堡
群展艺术家：王庆松、仇晓飞、熊宇、陈波、周文中、王承云
展览地点：古巴哈瓦那西班牙美洲文化中心
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Artists represented by Chinablue Gallery
are invited to take part in the 10th Biennial of Havana
The 10th Havana Biennial will be held from March 27 through April 30, 2009. And many artists from Chinablue Gallery are invited to take part in the Biennial, including Liu Xiaodong, Chen Bo, Qiu Xiaofei, Wang Chengyun, Wang Qingsong, Xiong Yu and Zhou Wenzhong. Liu Xiaodong's special project will be presented at Morro Castle, while the other six artists will have a group exhibition at Hispanoamerican Culture Centre in Havana.
The title of this Biennial is “Intergration and Resistance in the Global Era”, concerning about the amalgamation and collision in aspects of culture, art, thought, economy and politics among countries and areas in this global age. Bearing promoting confrontation of culture and art between Guba and other districts in mind, the Biennial brings together more than 200 artists from some forty countries. Just like before, this biennail still focuses mainly on Latin America and the Caribbeans, however, artists from Asian countries such as China is increasing gradually.
The relation between China and Guba is historical. The first wave of Chinese immigrants arrived to the island of Cuba in 1847 to work as laborers in the sugar plantations, thus replacing the African slave labor force. Till the last century the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 caused a new geopolitical restructuring and it put an end to the cold war. From that moment on the broke out, extending its tentacles all around the world. Cuba was involuntarily immersed since 1990 in the Special Period, crowned by austerity and recession; China, on the other hand, stands out since then as one of the greatest powers of the present time, holding its arm extended to Cuba in a gesture of fraternity and cooperation in the trade area. In some way, the cooperation between the two countries in fine art is also anticipanted by all.
The Havana Biennial warmly invites the coming of Chinese artists. Liu Xiaodong is invited to come and create there on the spot for a period of more than one month and later on his artwork will be shown in the special union of the Biennial in Morro castle. Liu Xiaodong has been to Cuba ten years ago, thus is looking forward to his second travel to the same land. He will stay with one chosen local family, experiensing closely the local custom, culture, and the way of thinking and living of Cuban people. We believe that the feelings for the changes of these ten years will inspire excellent art. As one of the most celebrated Chinese contemporary artists, Liu Xiaodong’s artwork takes on the topic of realism and his pain towards the transition of the era is so sensitive that he casted away the formal vanity and grand narration, jointing tightly the individual trueness and time absudity. Every common figure in his artwork all more or less stares at their inward lives, which is a perfect discription of Chinese contemporary society.
The other six group artists, even though they have independent productions, are representatives of the straight feelings that Chinese artists have towards the processes of social development. As one of the group exhibitions at the 10th Havana Biennial, the group exhibition with six exponents of the Chinese contemporary artisitc production initially conceived from the exhibition Asian Pacific Weeks Festival of Berlin in 2007, in which the artwork of the six artists touched the Biennail curator so deeply and as a rusult they are brought to Cuba. The exhibition “China: Contemporary Art Reviewed” will take to the Havana Biennial the most recent artwork by the artists, to its local and international visitors. The title of this exhibition implies both the review of the exhibition “Chinablue in Berlin”, and the review of the Chinese contemporary art scene.
Title：The 10th Biennial of Havana
Date：March 27 - April 30, 2009
Invited artist：Liu Xiaodong
Venue：Morro Castle, Havana Guba
Group artists：Wang Qingsong/Qiu Xiaofei/Xiong Yu en Bo/Zhou Wenzhong/Wang Chengyun
Venue：Hispanoamerican Culture Centre, Havana Guba |
