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Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


<\/strong>IV\u00c1N TOVAR: LE RETOUR<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Fundaci\u00f3n Iv\u00e1n Tovar announces Iv\u00e1n Tovar: Le Retour<\/em>,<\/strong> a Collateral Event of the 61st Biennale di Venezia<\/strong>

Curated by Christian Viveros-Faun\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fundaci\u00f3n Iv\u00e1n Tovar<\/strong> presents Iv\u00e1n Tovar: Le Retour<\/em><\/strong>, an exhibition celebrating the sparkling oeuvre of Iv\u00e1n Tovar (1942 \u2013 2020), an essential Caribbean artist whose creative impact is only just beginning to be felt among contemporary global audiences. Curated by Christian Viveros-Faun\u00e9<\/strong>, the exhibition has been conceived for the historic Ex Istituto Idrografico<\/strong> at the Museo Storico Navale, Venice\u2019s renowned maritime institution located in the Castello district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iv\u00e1n Tovar: Le Retour<\/em> positions the artist\u2019s transatlantic trajectory\u2014formative years in the Dominican Republic, two decades working in Paris, and an eventual return home\u2014as central to the global history of Surrealism. This reapproach comes in the wake of the centenary of Andr\u00e9 Breton\u2019s \u201cSurrealist Manifesto,\u201d which museums across Europe, Latin America and the U.S. have celebrated to reprise the story of modern and contemporary art. The details of these retellings\u2014that is, the alternative histories they encompass, which invariably involve other influences, other artists and cultural agents, as well as other audiences\u2014reshape the history of painting in the Dominican Republic, the Caribbean and beyond. The particulars of Tovar\u2019s expanded narratives, along with the capacious stories animating Koyo Kouoh\u2019s<\/strong> 61st International Art Exhibition In Minor Keys<\/em><\/strong>, stack up not just as tales from an underacknowledged past, they propose possible futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBe in permanent readiness for the marvelous,\u201d the Martinican Surrealist and writer Suzanne C\u00e9saire counseled. That very search for marvels encapsulates Tovar\u2019s art. From the 1960s until his death in 2020, Tovar fashioned an important body of two-and three-dimensional artworks\u2014\u201cmachines for longing\u201d rendered luminously in \u201cthe colors of dreams\u201d\u2014that synthesize Dominican hues, motifs, and inventiveness, together with the stylings of mid-twentieth century European art. The group of paintings and sculptures that enliven Iv\u00e1n Tovar: Le Retour<\/em><\/strong> represents both the artist\u2019s emergence on a global stage, as well as the global possibilities of Surrealism\u2014that most internationalist of European movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much more than a Latin American pr\u00e9cis of Surrealism, Iv\u00e1n Tovar\u2019s work articulates global ideas, symbols, and visual phenomena anew, fomenting divergent ways of seeing that promote a cultural position that has historically been considered subaltern and exotic but that, in fact, remains privileged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Iv\u00e1n Tovar<\/strong>
Iv\u00e1n Tovar was born in 1942 in San Francisco de Macor\u00eds, Dominican Republic, and died in 2020 in Santo Domingo. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes before traveling to Paris in 1963 on a painting scholarship, where he lived for two decades. He participated in the 36st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 1972 and showed in major museums including Stockholm\u2019s Moderna Museet. In 2018, Tovar received the National Prize for Visual Arts from the Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic. Major retrospectives of his work were held at the Museo-Fundaci\u00f3n Eugenio Granell in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2014), and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo (2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Venue<\/strong>
The Ex Istituto Idrografico is located within the Museo Storico Navale, Venice\u2019s renowned naval history museum situated in the Castello district near the Arsenale. Founded in 1919, the museum is housed in a historic 15th-century building. The Ex Istituto Idrografico occupies the ground floor and comprises three exhibition spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Fundaci\u00f3n Iv\u00e1n Tovar<\/strong>
The Fundaci\u00f3n Iv\u00e1n Tovar was established in 2021 as a non-profit cultural and educational organization. The foundation\u2019s mission is to preserve, promote, disseminate, and develop the art and culture of the Dominican Republic, with special attention to the life and work of Iv\u00e1n Tovar. Since its founding, the foundation has organized major exhibitions including \u201cTovar: Surrealismo Vivo\u201d (2022), an immersive exhibition that attracted over 75,000 visitors at Plaza de Espa\u00f1a in Santo Domingo, and \u201cTovar Retrospectivo\u201d (2023) at the Museo de Arte Moderno, presenting over 200 works spanning the artist\u2019s career.

Visitor Information<\/strong>
Iv\u00e1n Tovar: Le Retour<\/em>
Ex Istituto Idrografico \u2013 Museo Storico Navale
Castello 2148
30122 Venezia

Exhibition Dates: May 9 \u2013 November 22, 2026
www.labiennale.org\/en\/art\/2026<\/a>
ivantovar.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press Contact<\/strong>
Hunter Braithwaite
hunter@braithwaite.llc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credits<\/strong>
\nGeneral Production: Fundaci\u00f3n Iv\u00e1n Tovar
Lead Patron: H\u00e9ctor Jos\u00e9 Rizek Sued
Executive Manager: Daniela Tovar Castillo
Curator and Cultural Project Manager: Christian Viveros-Faun\u00e9
Exhibition Designer: Ra\u00fal Morilla
Project Coordinator: Olga Alba
Advisors: Mar\u00eda Castillo, Yuri Ruiz, Walter Otero
Researcher: Lilian Carrasco
Art Cataloguer: Simona Cappelli\u2028
Graphic Designer: Olga Valdez
Production Management: CS Art Management \u2013 Carlotta Scarpa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caption and Courtesy Information<\/strong>
Iv\u00e1n Tovar, La chaise adulte<\/em>, 1969, oil on canvas, 90 x 71 cm. Juan Manuel Portela Bison\u00f3 Collection, \u00a9 Photo Courtesy Fundaci\u00f3n Iv\u00e1n Tovar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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