Reporting the International Biennale in Venice, Italy:: Representing Contemporary Art From 89 Countries, With Each of the Countries Selecting The Artist(s) To Celebrate

A variety of visual variety and display , but Spain, which was a high flying economy, spurred by building construction before the global crash, now has one of the highest un-employment rates in Europe.
Because Spain is making a touristic stand in Jamaica, with its hotel chains, and planned developments, it was interesting to see a mostly narrative, conceptual exhibit in the Spanish Pavilion at the Biennale, called L'Inadequato (The Inadequate), initiated by the artist Dora Garcia.
It hints at doubt, a humbling or even a climbing down/removal/escape from a pedestal.

A Proposition:
A performance...that underlines the "violent fragility of everything we consider adequate. It's a form of dissidence, of escaping from the center.
The Inadequate responds to the need not to meet expectations, of not being what is expected of one.

For this artist (Dora Garcia), the concept of Inadequacy extends beyond the realm of art and enters into that of social taboo.
The Inadequate pursues a comprehension of "marginality" as a conceptual approach to creativity, with political and economic as well as social ramifications.
Here marginality is considered a political position within art practice and Inadequacy a need to distance oneself from the prevailing cultural discourse.

In summary, The Inadequate is an extended performance, made of objects, conversations, monologues, theatre, silences and debate. The protagonists of this multiple, collective performance, spanning several generations... are experts in the notion of ‘inadequacy’.
They represent independent, underground, dissident, unofficial, marginal and exiled positions.
(Quoted from the Exhibit)

VIDEO LINK To The Venice Biennale:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyjMlncSkVo

LINK Spanish Pavilion Exhibit:
www.theinadequate.net

"...to be awkward or unkempt, to talk or move wrongly is to be a dangerous giant, a destroyer of worlds. As every psychotic and comic ought to know, an accurately improper move can poke through the thin sleeve of immediate reality."
-Erving Goffman (Encounters-1961)

Prominent Jamdown Artists Having Participated In Past Venice Arts Biennales (2001: The 49th):}
Keith Morrison (painter); Albert Chong (photographer); Arthur Simms (sculptor)

Keith Morrison:
Morrison's paintings are more than mere works of visual art. They are observations drawn from literature, history and geography as well as evocative memories intricately woven into complex presentations that stimulate the mind while feeding the eyes.

...superb oil paintings and large watercolours ... that powerfully illustrates his elastic versatility and exquisite use of colour and form in a seductively engaging visual narrative that forms the essence of Morrison's artistic style.
...Like Mozart, he visualises the completed work and works tenaciously until the canvas approximates the mental image.

"Engaging personal, local, and global concerns, Morrison's visual language includes a vernacular vocabulary that is quintessentially diasporic, if not nomadic.
His pictorial and iconographic clues connect but do not bind his work to a black or Caribbean diaspora. Responsive to past and present histories, influenced by music, literature, and his physical environs, Morrison describes his process as "more intuitive than intellectualised". (Julie McGee::Gallery Curator)

Although much of Morrison's art is autobiographical, it includes astute political commentary and reflections on his travels, his observations, his reading and musical tastes.

One of his paintings is called Wide Sargasso Sea. Religion, magic, rituals, celebrations of life and premonitions of death abound along with water - in bayous, in rivers, or the sea. People, plants and animals commingle in ironic and comedic situations. There are so many levels of understanding that the art becomes a sort of X-ray of the artist's impressively vast erudition. Nevertheless, Morrison's art, unlike the writings of someone like Jorge Luis Borges, never intimidate intellectually. Rather, his art is gently accessible to the eyes with abundant food for thought.
(Quoted from the Jamaica Observer)

The Art of Keith Morrison
www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-art-of-Keith-Morrison_9882909

Albert Chong (Photographer)
LINK To The Mutual Gallery: Promoting Young & Avant-Garde Artists in Jamaica & The Caribbean: Click On The Photos Of Albert Chong

www.mutualgallery.com/artists.html

Universes in Universe: Visual Arts from Africa, Asia, the Americas in the International Art Context
Armchair Museum Tour of the Exhibit Tropics (from a German Point of View...? studiously brilliant?)

Are YOU an 'ethno-tropique'...Do YOU embody the "mood"?

LINK:
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/specials/2008/tropics