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HAVANA BIENNIAL 2019

Havana, Cuba

Havana Art Biennial

12 APRIL - 19 MAY 2019

Havana Art Biennial is one of the biggest art festivals in Cuba, where Cuban artists across all media participate alongside artists from over 40 counties. Under the theme, “The Construction of the Possible”, this thirteenth Havana Biennial will be the first year the Art Biennial spreads outside Havana and into the provinces.

THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

Chicago, United States

Into the Void: Prints of Lee Bontecou

26 JAN - 5 MAY 2019

The images of Lee Bontecou (American, analyses for the first time the totality of her prints as a reflection and an extension of her larger corpus, showing not only final states of her prints but also working proofs, variant states, finished and preparatory drawings, matrices (such as the copper etching plates used to print her works), and other ephemera that shed further light on her practice. Including over 100 objects, the exhibition explores the phenomena of process, repetition, and artistic obsession, and traces Bontecou’s voyage through a series of experiments and happy accidents toward the mystique of her final, definitive images.

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