V Art Biennale of ONCE Foundation
Jun 18, 2014
art madrid
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The Biennale of ONCE Foundation was created in 2006 as response to the need of people with disabilities to access to the culture in a standardized way, to eliminate prejudices on artistic creation and to give effect to the professionalization of people with disabilities in the world of Art. In this sense, the Biennale pursues two major goals of ONCE Foundation: accessibility (accessible culture for all the people, working from different policy areas, universal accessibility...) and inclusion (access for disable artists to the circuit of the Art market, achieving social inclusion and employment).
In 2014, the fifth edition of the Biennal, on view at Cibeles CentroCentro from May 21 to September 15, thematically revolves around human diversity and body "valuing difference as a quality of being and disability as a potential, including being one of the key objectives", according to the organization of ONCE Foundation.
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According to the director of Universal Accessibility of ONCE Foundation, Jesús Hernández, "the Foundation seeks to convey the concerns of the institution through the Art Biennials. In this regard, in previous editions it has addressed the issue of language and landscape to discuss accessibility and, in the current issue, we talk about human diversity to claim that we are all different but all have the same rights. " |
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The 5th Contemporary Art Biennal of ONCE Foundation presents, with a careful selection made by the curators Miguel Cereceda and Giulietta Speranza), the work of 39 artists, with and without disabilities, that show their interpretation of the world and their personal way to communicate. |
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| The exhibition, included in Photoespaña 2014, includes works by José María Cano and his son Daniel Cano (who suffers from Asperger syndrome), Luis Perez-Minguez (prestigious photographer with physical disabilities and part of the 80´s madrilian "movida"), Cristina García Rodero (Spanish photographer first woman in the international photo agency Magnum), Victor Meliveo (photographer and video artist visually impaired) and other names as Angel Baltasar, Javier Campano, José Manuel Egea, Carlos Franco, Miriam Jiménez, Ramón Losa, Eduardo Matute (DUDU), Paloma Navares, Carme Ollé i Coderch, Ricardo Dew, Ricardo Rojas, Ángel Rojo, Rafael Sanz Lobato, Cuco Suarez, Vicens Talens, John Tower, Kurt Weston, Marina Abramovic, Carlos Aires Miquel Barcelo, Daniel Canogar, Pedro Castrortega Angelica Dass, Esther Ferrer, Daniel Firman, Jorge Fuembuena, Germán Gómez, Kaarina Kaikkonen, Leiro Francisco, Isabel Muñoz, Jaume Plensa, Bernardi Roig, Serrano and Marina Belen Vargas. |
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| The Biennal proposes a diverse accesible program of activities, workshops, round tables, performing arts (dance, theater) and film series. This year also, the Biennal features works by artists like Jaume Plensa, provided by the MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona); Marina Abramovic, provided by Telefónica Collection; Miquel Barceló or Juan Muñoz, from the Helga de Alvear Collection. |
