THE PAVILION OF URUGUAY AT THE 60TH VENICE BIENNALE
Commissioned by Facundo de Almeida and curated by Elisa Valerio, the national pavilion of Uruguay presents the work of Eduardo Cardozo with the project Latent.
The Uruguay Pavilion is represented by artist Eduardo Cardozo, with the project Latent, an immersive installation that seeks to create a relational act between two painters at a distance: the Uruguayan Cardozo and the Venetian Tintoretto. This dialogue consists of three moments: the nude, the wall of Cardozo's studio, transferred to Venice using the stacco technique; the vestment, an interpretation that the Uruguayan artist makes of one of the sketches of Tintoretto's Paradise; and the veil, a cloth sewn from the scraps of gauze used to move the walls of the studio. This generates a counterpoint between Uruguay and Italy, south and north, between Cardozo's work and his reinterpretation of Tintoretto's painting.
The room is enveloped in a static or quiet atmosphere, where a certain warmth – typical of what is familiar to us – converges with a crumbling and decadent air that allows a glimpse of the passage of time. This is the time of encounter, of dialogue, just as it is the time of internal reflection, of dialogue with oneself. In this relational act that Cardozo proposes to us, it is both what he learns and knows about Tintoretto and Venice and what he discovers about himself, in whether he recognizes himself or not in the dialogue with the other.
Uruguayan art occupies a prominent place in this edition. Its curator, Adriano Pedrosa, has decided to distinguish national artists Joaquin Torres Garcia, Horacio Torres and Linda Cohen.
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Proyecto Latente, de Eduardo Cardozo. Foto: Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia.
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Proyecto Latente, de Eduardo Cardozo. Foto: Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia.
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Proyecto Latente, de Eduardo Cardozo. Foto: Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia.
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Proyecto Latente, de Eduardo Cardozo. Foto: Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia.
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Proyecto Latente, de Eduardo Cardozo. Foto: Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia.
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