Small conversation with Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Brazilian Pavilion curator.
Venice, 7 sept 2006
Guta Moura Guedes: Jacopo, what was the main idea for the Brazilian Pavilion?
Jacopo Crivelli Visconti: Well, we wanted to talk about big metropolis, and of course, inside Brazil, it should be about São Paulo. But we wanted to create, above all, an ambient. Not necessarily showing projects, but a specific ambient coming from São Paulo.
GMG: This seems to be an option for many pavilions this year…
JCV: Yes, the fact is that the theme itself appeals to that.
GMG: So, explain me a bit more about your options. The first room…?
JCV: First room you can feel a certain ambiance from São Paulo, with those two big projections, video in continuous, from the city, its immense urban landscape. You know, São Paulo is continuously in motion…
GMG: I kind of introduction for the second room, in a way.
JCV: Yes. But showing one of the most powerful elements of São Paulo, which are urban systems, networks and mobility.
GMG: And for the second room, a different perspective.
JCV: True. Or a paired perspective. On the second one you have two different confrontations between architects and architecture inside the city and artists who work with the urban structure of São Paulo.
GMG: Meaning?
JCV: We choose to show on one side of the wall a video about three architectural projects and on the other side of the wall a video from an artist that in a way produces his work using the city as a creative platform.
GMG: And the projects, there is any special reason for the choice itself?
JVC: The architectural projects we chose are buildings that inside the town have a special role as “network” moments for São Paulo’s life and society. They link people and activities and the city… showing a special connection with their neighbourhoods, with the aim of supporting the unpredictability of life and in a close relation to the issues posed by contemporaneity.
GMG. Jacopo, I know you are just here for 4 days and you will leave again to São Paulo, as you belong to the team of the Art Biennale of São Paulo. And there is a big innovation this edition, the model is completely changed…
JCV: Yes, its true. We will not have country participations but one whole show.
GMG: It is going to be a curatorial statement…and the biennale will loose the “country show-window” personality…Do you agree with this?
JVC: More than agreeing, I think that changing is very good, it was more that time to do it. I have great expectations about the result…!
GMG: yeah, I am also very curious. And what about Venice this year? Did you had the chance of seeing anything yet?
JCV: Not yet! Tell you later!
GMG: Ok. Thanks Jacopo, and nice flight back to Brazil!
