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| Ion Dumitriu and Nicu Ilfoveanu: Touring Exhibitions at Brukenthal |
| We are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibitions Ion Dumitriu/ Groapa de gunoi and Nicu Ilfoveanu/ Steampunk autochrome at the Contemporary Art Gallery of Brukenthal Museum on the 5th of March. The two retrospectives will be accompanied by the presentation of the artist books "Groapa de gunoi" and "Steampunk autochrome", produced by Galeria Posibila in 2007. |
| The display in Sibiu is conceived as a touring show, on one hand, and at the same time as an overview of the two artists’s activity. The photographs in the „Groapa de gunoi” („Garbage Pit”) series, enlarged from slides produced at a time when Ion Dumitriu was a teacher at 161 School in Giulesti-Sarbi, were exhibited at Galeria Posibila in 2007, then at the Arcade Gallery in Bistrita-Nasaud in 2008. Nicu Ilfoveanu’s Steampunk series, investigating poetically the post-communist industrial landscape, was already devoted two solo exhibitions at the gallery, in 2005 and 2007 respectively. The two artists exhibited together in 2008 in a collective show at Canem Gallery in Castellon, Spain, alongside with Matei Bejenaru and Ion Grigorescu. If at Castellon a dialogue was emerging from the works’ proximity, thematizing changes in the Romanian society, in the Brukenthal exhibition the works are shown individually, in two distinct shows: Ion Dumitriu on the ground floor, and Nicu Ilfoveanu on the first floor.
In both exhibitions photography plays with time: with the future in the case of Dumitriu's straight photography from the 70s because seen nowadays his images gain new meaning (they first became public in 2007). On the other side Nicu Ilfoveanu's photography creates a tension with the past. He uses the aesthetics of the photographic object from the time Dumitriu was documenting the "garbage pit" as a way of seeing places and architectures belonging physically to our time, but where at stake is only the past. A certain type of dialogue goes on. |
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| Creative Children Workshop with Dan Perjovschi |
| Parralel to the „Printed Stuff” exhibition, which was on at Galeria Posibila until the 21st of February, Dan Perjovschi was invited to hold one of the children’s creativity workshops. Extremely challenging as it may seem, as concepts such as irony and critique are very difficult to explain to children, the meeting developed swiftly from discussions to actual drawings, and finally the production of a newspaper. |
| Using examples from children’s literature we tried to explain the ideas of critique and irony through acting. Although irony is normally grasped beginning with the age of 8, we tried to distiguish the difference between it and the lie. Afterwards we drew in Perjovschi’s style, made a sketch-book based on the principle „Draw quickly and give it to your neighbor”, and completed the lesson with a newspaper. |
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| Matei Bejenaru in the project Lille 3000 |
| We are happy to inform you about the participation of Matei Bejenaru in the project Lille 3000/ Europe XXL, an event taking place beginning with March in the region around Lille, France. Redefining the idea of Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain is questioned; in focus is Eastern Europe. |
| Two exhibitions featuring the works of Matei Bejenaru open in Tourcoing on the 12th/13th of March respectively. The first of them – „Double Stereo” – will take place in ERSEP Gallery (Ecole Régionale Supérieure d’Expression Plastique de Tourcoing), where the artist exhibits with the French Yves Robuschi, comes as a result of a residency in which the two were invited to take part in November 2008. Bejenaru shows a documentary about a Muslim footbal team in Bourgogne, a rough area in Tourcoing.
The second event, which takes place in the same period at the university’s gallery in Tourcoing, is the group exhibition Dacia, curated by Christelle Manfredi. Bejenaru’s contribution is the project "Enlarged Clothing", presented at Galeria Noua in 2005. |
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| Roman Tolici at Collectiva Gallery in Berlin |
| Roman Tolici’s first solo exhibition in Berlin, entitled „Forever Young”, is on beginning with the 7th of February. The exhibition is on view at Collectiva Gallery in Mitte and features works from the artist’s last two projects: „Barber’s Shop”- 2008, and „Action”- on-going project begun in 2006. |
| In the the series of 40 black-and-white watercolors „Barber’s Shop” Roman Tolici questions the representation of power by removing the beard and the moustache from the faces of famous men from the 19th and the 20th century. Chosen from various fields, and deprived of these symbols of masculinity, they are afterwards named by their first names: Adolf, Ernesto, Salvador, Jimi, etc. Tolici invests a magical power in the beard and moustache, thus their removal resembles – he says – a gesture of „castration”. He mentions an anecdote as his inspiration, according to which Hitler had taken his look from Charlie Chaplin, whose moustache was actually false. |
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