Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Cuauhtémoc Medina is a Mexico-based internationally renowned art curator, critic and historian.In 2019, he was named as curator of the 12th Shanghai Biennale, one of the major art events in China.As the main topic of the Biennale, Medina selected the notion of "Proregress" as a word made of the condensation of progress and regress as the re-interpretation of conservatism and transformation in contemporary culture.This topic was uniting and actual for the participating artists, as most of them are based in Latin America or China, where tradition meets innovation.
Source: Critique d’art
Author: Svitlana Biedarieva
Language: French
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4248820144