Contemporary Art Romania

22 February 2008

FOR A HAPPIER TOMORROW


































Anca Benera (RO)
Adela Demetja (AL)
Daniel Gontz (RO)
Marek Kvetan (SK)
Kristina Lenard (HR)
Petar Mirković (SRB)
Ivan Petrović (SRB)
Erik Sikora (CZ)
Kamen Stoyanov (BG/A)

Selected by Alexandra Croitoru (RO)

Duration
15.02.-15.03.2008

Public space as a multilayered and shared space is the main issue of the group exhibition FOR A HAPPIER TOMORROW. Invited by Galleri Tom Christoffersen artist Alexandra Croitoru presents a well-researched selection of photography and video from Central-Eastern Europe.

It sounds activistic - and maybe it is. The works shown reflect the relations set up by artists between themselves and the public sphere especially by performing interventions (be it real or virtual ones) in the public space. The presented artists use their skills and knowledge to challenge reality or to create an alternative one as they show a non-defeatist, critical but at the same time ironical and playful attitude in relation to their social surroundings.

Although concerned with the public sphere either discussed through or performed in urbanity as context, FOR A HAPPIER TOMORROW is not an attempt to address a geo-political East-West duality. Neither is it an attempt to reflect whether there is a common denominator for the Central-Eastern European lens based media apart from the geographical one. As the diverse selection of works show, it is the particular artists approach, which intrigues.

Anca Benera and Kamen Stoyanov refer to the changes and the political antagonisms, that have affected the identity of public monuments, Adela Demetja reverses a given political situation by imagining an Albanian Embassy in Germany where people would queue for a visa, Daniel Gontz criticises social regimentation by using the prefabs of a socialist block of flats to make a puzzle with infinite solutions while Kristina Lenard and Petar Mirković play with the border between reality and fiction, between illusion and actuality, in his images of modern atomic shelters Ivan Petrović discuss questions of safety, phobias and fear, Marek Kvetan points at different social dysfunctions by creating fictional spaces with the means of digital manipulation and Erik Sikora is ironically commenting on the strategies of the «social artist».

Images:
Anca Benera
Ecvestra leninista (Leninist equestrian)
2007
C-print
40 x 60 cm
edition 1/5
(part of a mixed media installation, variable dimenstions)

Daniel Gontz: Puzzle
2007
DV-PAL
1:30 min
edition 1/3

19 February 2008

Cinematograful de dans la CNDB



JOI, 21.02.2008, ora 19:30, la Centrul National al Dansului,
sala Mediateca (Teatrul National et.3) la Cinematograful de Dans.
Proiectiile video 'Fara Cuprins' si 'FLEXIBLE' sunt urmate de o
discutie cu publicul moderata de Mihaela Michailov.

Fara cuprins

(2007), 15'30''
Concept si regie: Ion Dumitrescu si Eduard Gabia
Interpreti: Florin Flueras, Maria Baroncea, Carmen Cotofana, Ion
Dumitrescu, Eduard Gabia, Alexandra Pirici, Florin Fieroiu, Mihaela
Dancs, Rolando Matsangos, Madalina Dan, Iulia Weiss
Operatori: Barbu Balasoiu, Toma Velio
Montaj: Iulia Murgu, Filip Muresan
Sunet: Filip Muresan

Productie: CNDB (selectia de proiecte II/2007) si Numb Productions

"ma intreb cum arata autorii anonimi, indiferent de domeniul in
care activeaza. cei care produc/creeaza lucruri in urma carora nu vor
cunoaste nici recunoasterea, dar nici oprobiul societatii." Eduard Gabia


FLEXIBLE

FLEXIBIL (definiTie DEX) - 1. care are proprietatea de a se Indoi, de
a se incovoia usor (si de a-si reveni la forma initiala); elastic,
mladios. 2. care are flexiune, flexionar, suplu; 3. adaptabil (antonim
: rigid). 4. care cedeaza usor, maleabil, docil.

FLEXIBLE este un proiect de arhiva urbana informala cu miza sociala.
In cadrul unei investigatii video, trei comunitati bucurestene emit
pareri despre dans si despre implicatiile acestuia in viata de zi cu zi.
Comunitatile nu au o legatura fixa cu arta dansului, nu sunt balerini,
dansatori sau coregrafi profesionisti, dar fiecare danseaza.
Raportarea fiecarei comunitati la dans contine si particularitati de
mentalitate.
FLEXIBLE isi propune sa sublinieze importanta si rolul, pe care dansul
le joaca azi in viata unor locuitori ai capitalei.

<< "Flexible", investigatie video despre dans, conceputa de Paul Dunca si
de Maria Draghici merita aprecieri pentru descinderea practica si
teoretica in arta comunitara prin scanarea raportarilor la forme
diferite de dans.>>
Mihaela Mihailov, Cotidianul

Materialul documentar video este o creatie O2G finantata de CNDB.

Echipa FLEXIBLE :
- Maria Draghici - artist vizual
- Paul Dunca - coregraf
- artiti asociati : Ana Maria Costea (coregraf), Irina Gadiuta (regizor)

15 February 2008

(:-@) open call: cautam colectionari & colectiile lor!


Toti strangem. Unii au mers si mai departe.
E posibil ca multi dintre noi sa tina undeva ascunse colectii nestiute si nemaivazute inca de lumina zilei. De unele se zvoneste ca exista undeva, pastrate si pazite cu grija.
A venit timpul sa vedem cine ce a strans si de cat timp s-a adunat ce s-a adunat.
Locul si data: 22 februarie 2008, ora 18.30, la Galeria Noua, strada Academiei 15
Colectiile se strang la Galeria Noua intre 15 - 21 februarie 2008.
Daca si tu colectionezi ceva trimite acum un mesaj la anca.benera at gmail dot com sau 0721255990