Why a Children's Art Biennial?

Art allows children to express their emotions and thus better understand the situation and although it will not fight the virus, discouragement or disease, it can in times of chaos, become an antidote, a roadmap for greater clarity, a force of resistance and repair.

In other words, when faced with new problems, we appeal to children’s creativity.

The 1st International Biennial of Children’s Art FUCA was conceived in a natural environment, a privileged place in the Córdoba mountains, in the Calamuchita Valley (Argentina), with the ambition of promoting meeting spaces, creative action and critical reflection that transcends the limits of a single geographical, disciplinary and temporal territory.

A Biennial of Children's Art, what for?

This Biennial has been designed as an attempt to alleviate the serious situation that was generated in the context of the pandemic, it is a project of alternative and out-of-school educational experience.

The call for the 1st FUCA Children’s Art Biennial was thought to promote the richness of exchanges and influences among the little ones, helping them to express them in a broad and democratic forum. And with the registration of works, their exhibition and analysis, collaborate to enrich research and facilitate the development of visual thinking.

Recipients and proposal
of the Biennial

The Biennial was conceived and implemented during 2020 with the purpose of
promoting a space for meeting, raising awareness and stimulating children’s creativity.

The convocatory was aimed at children between 4 and 12 years of age,
establishing 3 categories according to their ages that were named:

The call was open during the months of September 2020 to March 2021

In order to stimulate children’s imagination, creation and invention,
suggestions for work were developed. Three general themes were presented:
“Long livenature”, “Limitless” and “Everything in motion”.

Various materials were proposed, recognizing the ability of materials to
create visual games, excite the imagination and produce new images.
The “Suggestions for work” were accompanied by examples of resources and
materials used by contemporary artists.

This is important because activity suggestions encourage youngsters to seek
inspiration from contemporary art and to play the game of using conventional
and unconventional materials.

Objectives of the Biennial

With the 1st FUCA Children’s Art Biennial, the following was sought:

  • Look back at the plastic and visual expression of children.
  • Ask questions about the construction of the infantile gaze in this world of uncertainty.
  • Promote spaces for meeting, creative action and critical reflection.
  • Support the theoretical and practical training of future artists, creators and art teachers.
  • Introduce a documentary question within the field of artistic expression.

The World in Calamuchita

More than 1000 children from 18 countries participated in the call (Germany, Argentina, Chile, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Cuba, Spain, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,
Russia, Uruguay, Venezuela).
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