He National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL) reported that the project Utopian infrastructure, the peasant basketball courtwhich will represent Mexico at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale 2023, “follows its course with the process of mediation and dialogue to give continuity to the participation of artists and architects, assuming the management and general coordination of the project” .
This after the team of artists and researchers, headed by curator Mariana Razo Botey, sent a letter to INBAL last Monday (excelsior04/12/2023), in which they observed the misrepresentation of the project, by the Architecture Workshop APRDELESPas well as irregularities and deficiencies in its execution, before which they distanced themselves from the result five weeks after it was to be inaugurated in the Old Arsenal Naval and Military Complex, in the city of Venice, Italy.
Meanwhile, the members of the APRDELESP workshop revealed that INBAL has only paid them 3% of the budget for carrying out the project and has imposed unfavorable working conditions that have interrupted the continuation of the project, coupled with the lack of guarantee of the conditions of Security and legal certainty for the recognition of collaborators.
Despite everything, INBAL reported in a statement that, through the Directorate of Architecture and Conservation of Immovable Artistic Heritage, after validation by the General Sub-directorate of Immovable Artistic Heritage, it carries out the third phase corresponding to administrative management, ” which will conclude in the coming weeks.
LACK OF PAYMENTS. The members of the APRDELESP workshop revealed that INBAL has only paid them 3 percent of the budget for carrying out the project.
He explained that this last stage includes the total payment of fees, production and delivery of content, “which are guaranteed when the resources are available, so that at no time is the presentation of the project put at risk,” given that These efforts have been made known to the group of artists and the architecture workshop.
He assured that the Institute is in charge of the general management of the project, for which reason it will continue with the specific meetings with the teams of architects and artists who participate in said project, with the purpose of abiding by the times established by the organization of the 18th Exhibition. International Architecture of the Venice Biennale 2023.
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In spite of everything, the unit, which is directed by Lucina Jiménez, did not acknowledge any delay in the payment of fees, despite the call from the APRDELESP workshop (excelsior04/17/2023) nor did he clarify if there is already any commitment on the part of Mariana Razo Botey and the artists to continue with the project.
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