Ferrara Showman Gallery announced the selection and participation of artist Paul Villinski for the 15th Bienal de la Habana taking place in Havana, Cuba from November 15, 2024 to February 28, 2025. Celebrating its 40th anniversary since its founding in 1984, the Havana Biennial is a contemporary art event organized by the Wilfredo Lam Center.
The biennial’s fundamental purpose is contributing to increasing awareness and dissemination of the visual arts of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, and their diasporas. It is considered “the first biennial of Latin American art.”
This year’s theme, Shared Horizon, will create an important locus for confrontation and reflection within the international art scene. This edition will feature over 250 artists who have been selected from 71 countries. Villinski is one of only three American artists selected to participate.
Paul Villinski is a nationally recognized artist whose work has been featured in numerous museums, contemporary art centers, biennials and public art commissions. An avid pilot and sailor, metaphors of flight and soaring often appear in his work. With a lifelong concern for environmental issues, his work frequently re-purposes discarded materials, effecting surprising and poetic transformations.
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