Mozambicans Malangatana (1936-2011) and Bertina Lopes (1924-2012) have been "called up" to the 60th international exhibition, the Venice Biennale, curated by Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa.

The event entitled Foreigners Everywhere will even include some 322 artists from different corners of the world who have not yet taken part in the event, although they have already shown in national cinemas or at a collateral event. The centerpiece will take place from April 20 to November 24.

The idea behind the curatorship, according to the newspaper Public is to introduce the "strange" but essential condiments to works from all over the world.

The historical section, which will include works by Malangatana and Bertina Lopes, will be made up of "20th century works from Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Arab world". The selection aims to discuss "the confines and definition of modernism", in the light of the theses that in recent years have rescued and revalued the modernist experiences of the "South of the world", and to reverse the processes that led to the export and globalization of European modernism.

This section will be divided into a portrait section (112 artists), another dedicated to abstraction (37 artists), and a third dedicated to the Italian artistic diaspora in the world throughout the 20th century (40 artists) - a movement that saw intense developments in South America, and particularly in Brazil.

The work of these 40 artists will also be shown on the famous easels that the artist and architect Lina Bo Bardi, herself an immigrant, designed for the Assis Chateaubriand Museum of Art in São Paulo, of which Adriano Pedrosa is today the director.