Artes Mundi 2 Selectors
Deepak Ananth
Ananth is an Indian Art Historian and curator of modern and contemporary art, currently based in Paris. He has prepared many highly acclaimed exhibitions including more recently Roland Barthes: Drawings exhibited at the Todai University, Tokyo and the Museum of the University of Kyoto in 2003-4; and Indian Summer, an exhibition of twenty-four contemporary Indian artists at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 2005-2006. His writings on artists such as Matisse, Picasso, Howard Hodgkin and Anish Kapoor are a reflection of his extensive knowledge and interest in contemporary art.
Ananth currently lectures in art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Normandy.
Ivo Mesquita
Ivo Mesquita is a Brazilian Curator, Critic and Writer.
Former Director of the São Paulo Biennale and Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Ivo Mesquita has curated numerous exhibitions addressing the theme of cultural identity in Latin American art, including more recently F[r]icciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Climate, Fundación la Caixa, Madrid in 2003. He has participated as a juror in many Brazilian and Latin American exhibitions, and has contributed numerous articles to periodicals such as Guia das Artes (Brazil) and Art Nexus (Colombia). He has lectured on Latin American Art in Canada, Central and South America and currently is Visiting Professor at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, and Curator for Pinacoteca do Esado and Projeto Octógono, an artist residency programme.