Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia: Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere

Name: Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia: Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere
Start: 2024-04-25T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-04-25T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Andrew Kreps Gallery

Thursday, Apr 25, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. EDT

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Andrew Kreps Gallery is excited to announce that the work of Bertina Lopes will be included in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere curated by Adriano Pedrosa. The biennale will open to the public on April 20 through November 24, 2024, and will present works by 331 artists.

“The expression Stranieri Ovunque,” explains Adriano Pedrosa “has several meanings. First of all, that wherever you go and wherever you are you will always encounter foreigners— they/we are everywhere. Secondly, that no matter where you find yourself, you are always truly, and deep down inside, a foreigner.”

Beginning in the 1950s, Bertina Lopes developed a singular body of work that intimately reflected her own political activism and social criticism. Bom in Maputo to a Portuguese father and Mozambican mother, Lopes left to study in Lisbon where she was first introduced to Modernism. This exposure to contemporary European art movements had a deep impact on her work, as she would begin to meld these international styles with African iconography. Returning to Mozambique in the early 50s, Lopes became an influential professor, while simultaneously engaging with the country's poets, writers, and political activists. As her antifascist and anti-colonialist views strengthened, and the country's political situation became more tumultuous, Lopes was forced to return to Portugal in 1961. Prosecuted by the PIDE (Portuguese International and State Defense Police), Lopes soon after fled to Rome, where she would spend the rest of her life. Here, Lopes' work took on new meanings, reflecting a desire for independence, and an end to colonialism, while also demonstrating an acute awareness of her own African Identity. Lopes' work would remain tied to current events in Mozambique, from the country's independence in 1975, to the subsequent civil war, lasting more than a decade. Her final works made after the war's end in 1992, denoted a newfound freedom, characterized by gestural abstract marks, and bold color.

While it was difficult for Lopes to gain recognition for her work in Italy, she became a vital figure within Rome, as a cultural attache to Mozambique's embassy. She would additionally represent her home country in important, international exhibitions, including two editions of the Venice Biennale. In spite of the barriers she faced, Lopes had several significant exhibitions of her work during her lifetime, including two exhibitions at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, 1973 and 1979, an exhibition at National Museum of Modern Art of Baghdad, 1981, as well as major retrospectives in Rome at Palazzo Venezia, 1986, and Palazzo della Cancelleria Apostolica, 2002. Following her death in 2012, Archivio Bertina Lopes was founded in Rome to preserve her legacy, as well as her home and studio.

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