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as Biennial Kicks Off\"\r\n}\r\n\u003C\u002Fscript>\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2>\u003Cstrong>Art Frenzy Takes Over Havana as Biennial Kicks Off\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>By \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reuters.com\u002F\">Reuters\u003C\u002Fa>  \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cdiv class=\"ArticleBody-byline-container-3H6dy\">\r\n\u003Cp class=\"Byline-byline-1sVmo ArticleBody-byline-10B7D\">\u003Ca class=\"TextLabel__text-label___3oCVw TextLabel__black-to-orange___23uc0 TextLabel__serif___3lOpX Byline-author-2BSir\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reuters.com\u002Fauthors\u002Fsarah-marsh\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Marsh\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\r\n\u003Cp>April 14, 2019\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cdiv class=\"ArticleBody-byline-container-3H6dy\">\r\n\u003Cp class=\"Byline-byline-1sVmo ArticleBody-byline-10B7D\"> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>HAVANA\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>Cones of white paper sprout from the seasalt-eroded pillars of one colonial building along Havana’s seafront, elaborately painted curtains cascade from another while out front children play with an installation of multicolored hoses.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>Havana’s 13th Biennial kicked off this weekend with works by more than 300 contemporary artists from 52 countries taking over the city’s museums, galleries and open-air spaces, and many more collateral exhibits.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>“They turned my home into an artwork,” said Silvia Perez, smiling at the paper sprouting from the colonnade of her home, a piece by Cuban artist Elio Jesús Fonseca. “The artist said it meant peace.”\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>The transformation of the Malecon seafront boulevard into an open-air, interactive gallery, has become one of the most popular venues of Cuba’s most important arts event.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.grimanesaamoros.com\u002Fcdn-cgi\u002Fimagedelivery\u002F8b7Mr6loSNKbwTe7bBsNMw\u002Fgrimanesa-amoros-havana-biennal-mariposa-dorada-01_1.webp\u002Fformat=auto,quality=85,w=1920\" alt=\"NYTimes Havana Biennal\">\r\n\u003Cp>Along the sidewalk this year are smooth boulders encased in volcanic slabs by Mexican artist Jose Davila, while a swirling light installation by Peruvian artist Grimanesa Amoros protrudes from a building.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>Cuba’s Communist government, which has heavily promoted the arts since the country’s 1959 leftist revolution, created the Havana Biennial in 1984 to promote artists from the developing world, especially Cuban ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>This year, 80 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related to our ideal that a better world is possible.”\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>Some artists who are critical of the government however have subverted that slogan.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>In one piece on the Malecon called “Potemkin Village”, Cuban-born artist Juan Andres Milanes Benito who lives in Norway has propped what appears to be the perfect facade of a building on another that is falling into disrepair.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>“It fits a lot with the Cuban government these days and how the system is working – there is a lot of facade,” he said. “Inside it is not so perfect.”\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>Originally he had wanted to replicate the facade of a renovated government building but authorities would not allow him, he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Ch3>Tensions between artists and 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