VIP PROGRAM | ESTE INVITA | ESTE ARTE supports the national participation of Uruguay at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
La casa empática by Yamandú Canosa
Curated by Patricia Bentancur and David Armengol
Uruguayan Pavillion
Giardini della Biennale, Venice
The emphatic house by artist Yamandú Canosa was selected by the Visual Arts National Commission, in an open competition launched by the Ministry of Culture. We proudly support the national participation of Uruguay at the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia.
Laura Bardier, Director of ESTE ARTE
The empathic house by Yamandú Canosa
The paintings, drawings, photographs and mural works by Yamandú Canosa in The empathic house arranged as a ‘landscape-territory’ of the world, an inclusive and empathic ‘total landscape’. Concepts such as territory, border, miscegenation, belonging, instability and difference expand starting from the poetics of the artist's keen gaze, critical and essential. In this landscape of the world, the horizon articulates the iconography of the four walls of the gallery – the South Wall, the East Wall, the North Walland the West Wall – that place the Uruguayan Pavilion on the map of I Giardini.The Empathic Houseis entered from the South. The total landscape is completed by the intervention on the façade and by the starry sky installed in the ceiling of the pavilion and its reflection on the floor. The horizon suggested by Yamandú Canosa is our common link and exemplifies the beauty of our equality and our differences. The Empathic House is the house of broken borders.
Patricia Bentancur and David Armengol.
Yamandú Canosa (Montevideo, 1954) began his studies in Architecture in Montevideo and made his first individual exhibitions in Montevideo and Buenos Aires in the 1970's. In 1975 he moved to Barcelona, where he associated in different periods with the Galeria Joan Prats, Galeria Benet Costa Gallery and the Galería Ciento. Since then he has done solo shows in galleries, contemporary art centers and museums in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Seville, Salamanca, Figueres, Paris, Rotterdam, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles among others.