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Dear Syndicalists,
You are cordially invited to attend the Romanian presentation in the 48th
Contemporary Art Biennial in Venice.
It is remarkable the fact that, maybe for the first time in the history of
this event, the Romanian participation is the result of an open
competition for curatorial projects organized by the Romanian Ministry of
Culture. Although it caused a lot of trouble this new procedure succeeded
to bring to Venice two projects initiated by two young curators: "REPORT"
in the Romanian Pavilion in the Giardini di Castello, curator Judit Angel
and "ALBERTI'S OPEN WINDOW / WINDOWS '98 - OPEN" in the space of the
Romanian Cultural Institute (Instituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca
Umanistica, Palazzo Correr) curator Horea Avram.
Irina Cios
Here under follows detailed information.
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"Report"
Curator: Judit Angel
Assistant curator: Aurora Dediu
the exhibition designed for the Romanian pavilion, presents:
subREAL and Dan Perjovschi
Press Opening Friday, June 11, 1999, 11:30 a.m.
Romanian Pavillion, Giardini di Castello, Venezia
Leading Romanian artists of the nineties, their discourses are relevant
for arts potential of social interaction
and critique, and address issues of both local and international interest.
Juxtaposing photo-installation and pavement drawing, the exhibition deals
with the relation between art, historical perspective and social
representation.
In both cases, the role of the artist-reporter implies the activation of a
critical view over Romanian society and contemporary culture, choosing
press as reference medium.
The territory investigated by subREAL is the archive of "Arta" magazine,
which controlled the public image of Romanian art between 1953-1989. By
re-editing b/w negatives dormant in these archives, the artists operate a
change of perspective: peripheral details surrounding the art work meant
for reproduction come under focus in a monumental installation, where they
are granted a certificate of value and uniqueness.
By directly drawing on the floor of the pavilion, Dan Perjovschi is
actually anthologizing his production carried out both within the public
space of "22"(a political and cultural weekly) and within the private
space of his diary. Recording the constantly changing relationships
between the artist and the contiguous social, political and
cultural corpus, Perjovschi's drawings define themselves as excerpts from
an ongoing social "cartoon", which bespeaks of resistance and adaptation
to the coercions of both local and global contexts. By providing
alternative models of relating to (art) history and by developing a
critical understanding of the present, the works put to test art's
capacity of self-reflection and social responsiveness.
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Exhibition organized under the auspices of: Romanian Ministry of Culture,
Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ONDEA Bucharest, Instituto Romeno di
Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Venezia.
The exhibition has also been supported by the Academie Schloss Solitude,
Stuttgart
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Dan Perjovschi
Born in Sibiu, Romania, in 1961. Graduated from the Art Academy of Iassy,
Romania. Since 1991 graphic designer and art director of the political and
cultural weekly journal "22", Bucharest. Since 1995 member of the
Group of Social Dialogue, Bucharest.
Selected exhibitions: 1995-Accumulations, The National Museum of Art,
Bucharest; Anthroprogramming, Franklin Furnace, New York; 1995-96- Beyond
Belief, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, ICA Philadelphia; 1996- Spatia
Nova, The Vith St.Petersburg Biennial, St.Petersburg, Experiment in
Romanian art since 1960, Gallery ¾, Bucharest; 1997 Sélestart, Biennial of
Contemporary Art, Sélestat, Alsace; Bukarest nach 89, Ludwig Museum,
Aachen; Ad-hoc, Ludwig Museum, Budapest; 1998- Manifesta 2, Luxembourg;
Body and the East, Moderna Galerija, Lublijana.
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subREAL
Calin Dan (RO/NL) and Iosif Kirly (RO), have a background in art history,
respectively in architecture. Favorite media: photography, video,
installation, performance, lecturing.
Shows in: Biennale di Venezia, Aperto 1993; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin;
ICA Philadelphia; Kunsthal, Rotterdam; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe;
Künstlerhaus, Graz; Akademie Schlo� Solitude, Stuttgart; Berlin Biennial.
Lectures/workshops: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Photo&Film
Academy, Gothenburg; Merz Akademie, Stuttgart; Kunstakademie, Stuttgart, etc.
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"Albertis open window / Windows 98 open"
Curator: Horea Avram
presents:
Alexandru Antik, Mircea Florian, Dan Mihaltianu, Nicolae Onucsan,
Alexandru Patatics
Press Opening Friday, June 11, 1999, 6:30 p.m.
Istituto Romena di Ricerca e Cultura Umanistica
Palazzo Correr, Campo Santa Fosca, Cannaregio 2214 30124, Venezia
The word game in the title wants to illustrate the enormous transformation
the contemporary art instrumentates", getting together, after a well known
formula, old Alberti and the fresh computer program. From the perspectical
vision, theorized in the Renaissance by Leon Battista Alberti for whom
the picture was a window through which the artist could observe the
reality, to the popular Microsoft computer program, Windows 98, there is a
big stretch. Abandoning the rules of perspective, the way they were once
formulated, the contemporary artist considers the window not as a passive
peephole, but as an active device which opens other images.
Without the tradition of a mediatic environment Romanian artists take the
new technology into possession either with detachment (based on his
photo/film/video/audio experiments of the 70s and 80s), or with shyness,
as being at his first rendez-vous. But each time he is consciencely
realising his own cyberhood.
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With a conceptual stuff Alexandru Antik fills up ceramics, performances,
installations and digitally processed videos. But not at the same time.
Corpus Transit is an organic tube" (organic, so, as most of his works)
which digests the limit between the real (endoscopic, ecographic) image
and the computer generated images, in a continuous flux. The translation
from the centre to the edges creates a visceral-electronic movement, which
turns the organic devices into artificial beings.
For Mircea Florian the screen is a window opened for the ears. Both a
musician and a visual artist, the computer has been one of his best
friends for years. Soundscape and visual realm, his work is dealing with
time: the contemporary disappointing one in which water (=time) is washing
our sins. (Water) The primordial substance - the purifying element -
"raised from the death and resurrected", virtually washes the conflictual
(real) situations on the screen. A formal operation released in an
interactive way by the viewer, but which transposes a symbolic gesture.
A step in a process-oriented series of works, Alcohology Travel by Dan
Mihaltianu is a site-specific installation, a "travel agency" which offers
trips on, the so-called, Great Distillation Routes. Any "client" can find
there the "distilled essence" of a certain event, story, person or place.
Video and computer images, photos, objects, deliver subjective topics or
practical tips, signs of a personal, political or cultural approach.
Nicolae Onucsans work deals with an expanded meaning of the image: a
borderless game between reality and imagination, between the analogue and
the digital, which takes place on the same Wet Paint surface. Irony?
Cynicism?
Placed also in between", the work of Alexandru Patatics Insignificant
Events transcends categories. Parallel spaces in real or virtual time
(street images or pre-recorded images) are gathered in an interactive
installation: i.e. connections through open windows" both to fiction and
non-fiction.
All the works are video-installations, in which the digital images are the
central element.
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Organizers: Romanian Ministry of Culture, Romanian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Oficiul National pentru Documentare si Expozitii de Arta -
Bucharest, Istituto Romena di Ricerca e Cultura Umanistica, Venezia
Sponsors: Banca Româna pentru Dezvoltare / Societé Génerale; Casa de
Economii si Consemnatiuni; SONY; Logimax; International Center for
Contemporary Arts, Bucharest
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ALEXANDRU ANTIK - Corpus Tranzit (1998-1999) video installation
(3D-animation assistant Dragos Stefan)
1950, born in Reghin, Romania. Graduated of the Institute of Fine Arts Ion
Andreescu", Cluj, Romania in 1975
Solo exhibitions and events (selection)
1983 - "The Alchemy of the Ceramist", happening, Cluj, Romania; 1986 -
"The Dream is Alive", performance, Medieval Chemist's Shop, Sibiu,
Romania; 1993 - Ex Oriente Lux, Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for
Contemporary Arts, Bucharest, Romania; 1997 - "Microevent"
videoinstallation, International Forum of Electronics Media, Ostranenie97
Bauhaus-Dessau; 1997 - Ad-Hoc", Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; 1998 -
Art, as a resource", International Art Camp, Salina98-Turda, Romania; 1998
- TRANS(it)FORMATION, Multimedia International Art Event, Cluj, Romania.
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MIRCEA FLORIAN - "Water raised from the death and resurrected", 1999,
multimedia interactive installation
1949 born in Satu-Mare, Romania. 1967-1972 Institute of Cybernetics,
Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest; 1989-1990 - Control Data Institut,
Düsseldorf. Since 1965 compositions: electronic / experimental / computer
music for theatre, film and ballet. 1975-1998 - Over 30 compositions for
solo instruments or for various acoustic or artificial instruments. Lives
and works in Wuppertal, Germany and Bucharest, Romania
Exhibitions (selection):
1982 - "Space - Object" Institutul de Architectura, Bucharest; 1985 -
"Soundworks" Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York, NY; 1986 - "Objecto de
Interferéncia" Grande Galeria do Palcio das Artes,Brasil; 1986 -
"Postextual" Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico; 1987 -"Art /
Technology Interface" The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, USA; 1991 -
"Buchstäblich" Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany; 1993 - "cARTe" De
Zonnehof Museum, Amersfoort, The Netherlands; 1996 - "Experiment" Annual
Exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Bucharest; 1996 -
"Die Grundsteinkiste" Rheinische Landesmuseum, Bonn; 1998 - "Laut-Malerei -
Bildende Kunst und Musik" Von der Heydt Museum, Kunsthalle; 1999 - "Grüne,
trockene Bäume" Stadthalle Wuppertal, Germany;
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DAN MIHALTIANU - "Alcohology Travel", 1999, multimedia installation
1954 born in Bucharest, Romania. 1975-1982 - Institute of Fine Arts
Bucharest. 1990 - Co-founder of Artists' group, subREAL, cooperation until
1993. Lives and works in Bucharest and Berlin.
Solo and GroupExhibitions (selection)
1990 - "Points East", Third Eye Centre Glasgow, UK; 1992 - International
Art Biennal, Istanbul, Turkey; 1993 - Aperto - Venice Art Biennal, Italy;
1994 - "Europa - Europa", Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, Germany; 1994
- Imaginäres Hotel, IGBK, Elster Park Buntgarnwerke, Leipzig, Germany;1994
- "1954", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany;1995 Die Leiden des
jungen Bahnwärter, Bahnwärterhaus-Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Germany;
1996 - "Balt-Orient-Express", IfA-Galerie Berlin, Germany, National Museum
of Art, Bucharest, Romania, WUK Vienna, Austria; 1996 - "Experiment in
Romanian art '60-'90", Soros Center for Contemporary Arts annual
exhibition, Bucharest, Romania; 1996 - Fire Water, Art in General, New
York, USA; 1998 - "Kulturkonjak", Galerie Schloss Damtschach, Austria;
1999 - "Video Cult/ures", ZKM / Museum for Contemporary Arts, Karlsruhe,
Germany.
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NICOLAE ONUCSAN - "Wet Paint", 1997, video
1952 - born in Gherla - Cluj, Romania. 1979 graduate of the Institute of
Fine Arts "Ioan Andreescu", Cluj, Romania
Exhibitions (selection)
1986 - International Graphics Biennial, Kracow, Poland; 1992 - "Saga",
Grand Palais, Paris,France; 1992 - "Art as Activist" - Revolutionary
Posters in central and Eastern Europe, Smithsonian Institut, New York, USA;
1992 - "cARTe" (Object-books), De Zonnehof Cultural Center, Netherlands;
1996 - "Experiment in the Romanian Art '60-'90", annual exhibition of the
Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Bucharest, Romania; 1997 - "Civitas
Solis, Civitas Artis", annual exhibition of the SCCA - Bucharest, Calnic,
Romania
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ALEXANDRU PATATICS - "Insignificant Events", 1999, interactive media
installation
1963 - Born in Timisoara, Romania. 1986-1991 - Academy of Visual Arts- "Ion
Andreescu", Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Exhibitions (selection)
1993 - "East Europe Zone", international performance festival, Art Museum,
Timisoara, Romania; 1993 - "Ex Oriente Lux", Soros Center for Contemporary
Arts annual exhibition, Dalles Hall, Bucharest, Romania; 1994 - "Minima
Media '94", Medienbienalle Lepzig, Germany; 1995 - "Unter Anderen-Among
Others", Gent, Belgium, Kunstlerhaus, Dortmund, Germany; 1996 - XXIII Sao
Paulo Bienalle, Sao Paulo, Brazil; 1997 - "ICC Biennale '97" Tokyo,
Intercommunication Center, Japan.
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Irina Cios
Director
International Center for Contemporary Arts - Bucharest
Str. Spatarului 52, sect. 2
PO-BOX 1-827
tel/fax: 40.1.210 7777, 40.1.210 3070
http://www.csac.sfos.ro
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