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28TH BIENAL DE SAO PAULO: IN LIVING CONTACT
Curated by Ivo Mesquita and Ana Paula Cohen, Including: Mabe Bethonico, Erick Beltran, Carsten Holler, Armin Linke/Peter Hanappe, Dora Longo Bahia, Allan McCollum, Rivane Neuenschwander, Paul Ramirez Jonas and Carla Zaccagnini, among other artists. Pavilhao Ciccillo Matarazzo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Rampaging graffiti artists spray-painted the empty first floor of the Sao Paulo biennale building--the Pavilhao Ciccillo Matarazzo--the day after the 28th Bienal de Sao Paulo's opening. This renegade group called the "Pichadores," known in Sao Paulo for attacking cultural institutions, was protesting the extraordinary decision by the curators to leave this biennale exhibition space empty. The 40 vandals involved ended up in an ugly struggle with security guards, who were assaulted and even had their faces spray-painted.
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The biennale curators, Ivo Mesquita and Ana Paula Cohen, stated that they left this first floor empty as a...
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