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| [Nettime-ro] Adina Popescu - SOLID STATES - Galeria Plan B, Berlin |
 Adina Popescu SOLID STATES  Opening:ÂSeptember 7, 18ÂâÂ22 h September 7 â October 20, 2012 TuesdayÂâÂSaturday, 12ÂâÂ18 h Potsdamer Strasse 77-87, 10785 Berlin  Galeria Plan B is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Adina Popescu (*1975 in Romania, lives in New York). We are happy to invite you to the opening of the exhibition SOLID STATES on Friday, September 7 from 6 to 10 pm.  This is a show about lifelessness, artificiality and the scary immortality of synthetic materials. It is about FEELINGS AS READYMADES and about techniques of Global Marketing, PR, Speeches and Hollywood CinemaÂâ I. JEREMIAH Adina Popescuâs film (Jeremiah, HD, 10:23 min, 2010) shows a confession of an Internet hacker -played by Clemens Schick- who was convicted for IDENTITY THEFT. At the same time he is nothing but a scripted character: We see the actor wearing a silly blue bow tie. His extensively color corrected eyes seem meaningful when looking at us through the camera lens, when telling us how it all started and how he got into stealing.. Adina Popescu worked with an editor of commercial movie trailers on the edit of this piece, using the same techniques of intensification and heightened dramatic attention as known from mainstream cinema and advertising language. 'Jeremiah' is a highly manipulated character that is not to be trusted. At the same time he speaks the truth. The text claims positions that the artist agrees with A HUNDRED PERCENT - and yet, it is hard to tell if 'Jeremiah' is lying to us or not. He obviously is an imposter, as is the artwork that acts as his frame. II.SOLID STATE I, II & III (2012, raw steel, acrylic paint, plastic coating, MDF, enamel, polyester) SOLID STATES is an examination of how abstractions and models shape real space. How can the outline of a room, an architectural drawing, a 3D rendering, a sketch or a speculation (arbitrary dots connected by a pen) be transferred into real space while maintaining their abstraction? In this exhibition Adina Popescu has built a film set for 'Jeremiah'. Only that his space here is just an outline of a room: A sketch, a transfer of a model into the real world. What we see is a lifeless space, made from lines of raw steel with their infinite processes of oxidation, as well as un-organic toxic plastic coatings that may as well exist in a vacuum.ÂBut non the less: If we were to trace those lines, trying to understand where they connect, would we then be able to tell a narrative? III. '2014â â2014â is an exploration of PR language and how it colonizes our imagination with readymade images and feelings that - until today - use the same prophecies, fears and metaphors. (â2014â, 2012, sound installation) This piece has been installed in the galleries project room. Its text is a direct translation of Goebbels Sportpalast Rede into a âGerman soundingâ English and performed by the same Clemens Schick, whose accent remains unidentifiable. Adina Popescu has altered the text on the basis of an index with which she replaced all the keywords of the text with keywords from todays PR texts taken from political campaigns and from speeches on the economic crises in 2008. While sticking to the original text, she has inserted absurd repetitions of key sentences. The outcome here is rather surprising. For more information, please contact the gallery at [email protected] and +49.1723210711.  Next art fairs: Viennafair, 20 - 23 September Frieze London, 11 - 14 October FIAC Paris, 18 - 21 October Upcoming exhibitions of the gallery's artists: Adrian Ghenie, Victor Man and Ciprian Muresan in the exhibition Six Lines Of Flight. Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art September 15 - December 31, 2012 Adrian Ghenie, Victor Man and Serban Savu in the exhibition Nightfall MODEM, Debrecen September 29, 2012 - January 31, 2013 Adrian Ghenie in the exhibition Francis Bacon and the Existential Condition in Contemporary Art Center for Contemporary Culture at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence October 10, 2012 - January 27, 2013 Adrian Ghenie solo exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver September 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013 Victor Man in the exhibition The House of Leaves The David Roberts Art Foundation September 21, 2012 - February 23, 2013 Ciprian Muresan in the exhibition Sounds Like Silence (John Cage â 4'33'' â Silence Today / 1912 â 1952 â 2012) Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund August 25, 2012 - January 6, 2013 Navid Nuur in the exhibition Time, Trade & Travel Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam August 25 - October 21, 2012 ÂNavid Nuur in the exhibition A Battle for Narrative Bonnefanten Hedge House August 30 - October 28, 2012 Miklos Onucsan in the exhibition: It's moving from I to it. The Contemporary Art Gallery of the National Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu August 30 - September 28, 2012 Serban Savu solo exhibition atÂMihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles September 8 - October 20, 2012 Rudolf Bone and Dan Perjovschi Line and Erasure Kunstverein Kreis Ludwigsburg September 9 - October 14, 2012 Galeria Plan B  ________________________________  ________________________________ Romania: Str. Henri Barbusse 59-61 400616 Cluj Tel +40.740.658555  Germany: Potsdamer Strasse 77-87 G 10785 Berlin Tel. +49.172.3210711 ________________________________ www.plan-b.ro | [email protected] _______________________________________________ Nettime-ro mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro --> arhiva: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/