”Once More into the Grey” - a collaboration between SABOT & UNA Galleria, soon in Piacenza

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UNA Galleria

”Once More into the Grey”

Opening: October 27, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Exhibition: October 27 - December 29, 2018

Opening Hours: Tue - Fri 4 pm - 7 pm | Sat 10 am - 1 pm and 4 pm - 7 pm + by appointment

via Sant'Antonino 33, Piacenza, Italy

UNA is pleased to announce its collaboration with SABOT gallery from Cluj-Napoca and to present ”Once More into the Grey”, a group exhibition which includes artworks by Răzvan Botiș, Radu Comșa, Camilia Filipov, Nona Inescu, Alex Mirutziu, Vlad Nancă.

The exhibition, specially conceived by Sabot for the space of UNA, features a selection of black and white artworks only by Romanian artists - an allusion to the state of the (art) world today and, at the same time, to the famous Cluj "grey school of painting”. Nonetheless, not only paintings are on display, the exhibition is conceived as a colorless dialogue between several rather mysterious works – sculpture, photography, installation.

SABOT gallery has been founded by Daria D. Pervain and Marcel Janco at the beginning of 2009 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, as an attempt to verify the raison d'être of a gallery in the third millennium. Hidden relationships, longtime friendships, communality, fictional identities and situations blurring the barrier between public and domestic — these are the main, statutory highlights of SABOT. A laboratory, an incubator, a research tentacle, the gallery acts equally as a curator, a producer, and a habitat. Since its debut, SABOT has co-founded two art centers in Cluj-Napoca - The Paintbrush Factory, in 2009, and Centrul de Interes, at the beginning of 2017 - hugely contributing to the development of the Romanian contemporary art scene. Until 2018, the gallery has participated in more than 30 international art fairs – from Artissima or ARCOmadrid, to LISTE, Paris Internationale and NADA Miami, to name just a few.

Photo credit: Marco Fava

Instalatia ”Where is the poem?” a artistului Alex Mirutziu va fi expusa in cadrul Media Art Festival Arad 2018

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Media Art Festival Arad 2018

”De Rerum Natura”

5 octombrie - 3 noiembrie 2018

Program: marti-duminica, 09:00-17:00

Complexul Muzeal Arad

Piata Enescu 1

Expozitia principala a Media Art Festival Arad 2018 propune interjectii si intersectii cu / printre galeriile si exponatele sectiei de Stiintele Naturii de la Complexul Muzeal Arad. Interventiile in spatii atipice sau "non-conventionale" au devenit …

Expozitia principala a Media Art Festival Arad 2018 propune interjectii si intersectii cu / printre galeriile si exponatele sectiei de Stiintele Naturii de la Complexul Muzeal Arad. Interventiile in spatii atipice sau "non-conventionale" au devenit caracteristice festivalului. Aceste gesturi nu trebuie sa fie percepute in opozitie cu estetica cubului alb. Reactiile sunt mai degreaba unele pozitive, perturbari delicate si totusi sigure pe sine ale parametrilor si circumstantelor date. Cautam modalitati de joaca, folosind spatiile disponibile pe post de pretext. Preocuparile noastre in domeniul artei si tehnologiei reunesc un grup eterogen de artisti/e multimedia. Publicul va experimenta, si va regasi un spatiu bine-cunoscut dar modificat, nostalgia sitului fiind intrerupta prin instalatii si dispozitive mai mult sau mai putin subtile.

Festivalul promoveaza artistii tineri, cauta sa motiveze producatorii locali si sa faciliteze crearea unor retele de colaborare internationale in domeniul cultural. O serie de evenimente conexe au fost planificate in cadrul festivalului, care va include in seara deschiderii lucrari de performance, sunet / muzica, si proiectii multimedia. Muzeul de Arta Arad gazduieste un proiect digital on/offline si o instalatie performativa.

Curatori: Calin Man, Ileana Selejan

Autori: Apparatus 22, Arantxa Etcheverria, Andi Icaza, Anna Handick, Adela Muntean, Andreea Anghel, Andreea Bencsik, Adelina Ivan, Arina Varga, Adriana Oprea, Alexandru Antik, Alex Mirutziu, Alexandra Stache, Alexandru Boca, Alexandru Leric, Amalia Ignuta, Adrian Ganea, Andrei Nacu, Adrian Sandu, Anca Rujoiu, Bogdanator, Bogdan Tomsa, Balasz Szabo, Caius Grozav, Catalin Alb, Catalin Batranu, Catalin Cretu, Cinetik, Ciprian Ciuclea, Claudiu Cobilanschi, Constantin Vica, Corina Mitrovici, Cristina Bogdan, Cristian Nanculescu, David Kelley, David Indreica, Diana Serghiuta, dslx, Edin Velez, Felippe Moraes, Flaviu Rogojan, flo’, Frédéric St-Hilaire, Gelu Giricz, gH, Horea Avram, Ilie Ciotir, Ioana Ionescu, Ioan Paul Colta, Ioana Vreme Moser, Ioana Marchidan, Iulia Toma, Linda Barkasz, Livia Mateias, Lea Rasovszky, Levente Kozma, Laurian Popa, Luminita Andreica, Maria Tamasan, Marius Stoica, 13m10j, Mihnea Rares Hantiu, Mimi Ciora, Mona Nicoara, Natalia Lazurca, Nita Mocanu, Oana Furdea, Oana Tarce, Octavian Belintan, Olivia Nitis, Patty Chang, Pablo Jose Ramirez, Pnea, Rares Moldovan, Ursu, reVoltaire, Sabin Bors, Sandor Bartha, Sergiu Sas, Simona Dabija, Simona Deaconescu, Sorin Neamtu, Pandele Pandele, Sandor Bartha, Stefan Tiron, Thea Lazar, Taietzel Ticalos, Tomas Saraceno, Ute Meta Bauer, V. Leac

Alex Mirutziu will be showing in ”A World Has Still To Be Build” at Art Encounters Foundation

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Designed to be part of the Foundation’s permanent program, the exhibition ”A World Has Still to Be Built” emphasizes one of our long-term missions – creating a dialogue platform for artists from different generations, and engaging the public in a kn…

Designed to be part of the Foundation’s permanent program, the exhibition ”A World Has Still to Be Built” emphasizes one of our long-term missions – creating a dialogue platform for artists from different generations, and engaging the public in a knowledge exchange mediated by contemporary art.

The world has never stopped building and rebuilding itself and the expectation to deliver a better, a fairer or merely a more bearable future is always returning as a yearning of the process of situating oneself in time and space. What happens after something falls apart, how do you rebuild a system, and what is the consequence of collective and individual redefining? The reading of the title, which is an excerpt from W.G. Auden’s 1962 Prologue: The Birth of Architecture, can be enriched with larger snippets from Auden’s text: “It's our turn now / to puzzle the unborn. No world / wears as well as it should but, mortal or not, / a world has still to be built”. What is not yet visible, known, what is on the threshold between what has been and what will be, can be grasped as an intensified shape of the present, a task of the present time and a responsibility of knowledge.

The exhibition on display starts from questions and proposals coined by the invited artists in relation to an unstable and antagonistic socio-political climate, ever more trapped in its own cyclic system of revolt and obedience. The islands of knowledge that art lay bare group themselves here in solid territories, defined by the direct experience of a context the artists confront. They react to social drives, collective revolt, and personal discontents by drawing out the language of revolt and reworking it into an abrasive poetic vocabulary apt to foretell the zeitgeist. Whether we are talking of irony, reenactment, collective actions or individual gestures, the strategies the artists employ outline different ways of reading and contesting reality at the time of its breakdown and recreation.

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Parte din programul permanent al fundatiei, expozitia ”O lume inca asteapta sa fie construita” marcheaza una dintre misiunile noastre pe termen lung – crearea unei platforme de dialog pentru artisti din generatii diferite si implicarea publicului in schimbul de cunoastere mediat de arta contemporana.

Lumea nu a incetat sa se fie construita si reconstruita de-a lungul istoriei, iar incercarea de a produce un viitor mai bun, mai corect sau doar mai suportabil revine mereu ca o aspiratie a procesului de pozitionare in timp si spatiu. Ce se intampla dupa ce se dezintegreaza ceva, cum se reconstruieste un sistem si care e urmarea redefinirii colective si individuale? Citirea titlului, extras din poemul scris de W.G. Auden in 1962, „Prologue: The Birth of Architecture”, poate fi completata de un decupaj mai larg al versurilor lui Auden: „It's our turn now / to puzzle the unborn. No world / wears as well as it should but, mortal or not, / a world has still to be built”. Ceea ce nu este inca vizibil, cunoscut, la limita dintre ce a fost si ce urmeaza, poate fi intuit ca o forma intensificata a prezentului, o sarcina a timpului actual si o responsabilitate a cunoasterii.

Expozitia de fata porneste de la intrebarile si propunerile formulate de artistii invitati in relatie cu un climat social-politic instabil, antagonic si tot mai blocat in propriul sistem ciclic al revoltei si supunerii. Insulele cunoasterii pe care arta le formuleaza se grupeaza aici in teritorii solide, definite de experienta directa a unui context cu care artistii se confrunta. Acestia reactioneaza la impulsurile sociale, revoltele colective si nemultumirile personale distiland limbajul revoltei intr-un vocabular poetic abraziv in masura sa defineasca spiritul timpului. Fie ca vorbim de ironie, reenactment, actiuni colective sau gesturi individuale, strategiile la care recurg artistii decanteaza moduri diferite de a citi si dezbate realitatea, in momentul naruirii si reconstructiei ei.

A World Has Still To Be Built

Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu, Apparatus 22, Alex Bodea, Brassaï, Geta Brătescu, Mircea Cantor, Simion Cernica, Teodor Graur, Dan Mihălțianu, Alex Mirutziu, Nita Mocanu, Ciprian Mureșan, Ioana Nemeș, Andrei Pandele, Dan Perjovschi, Lea Rasovszky, Daniel Spoerri, Andra Ursuța, Gabriela Vanga

Curator: Diana Marincu

29 September - 23 November, 2018

Times: Mon - Fri, 10 am - 5 pm

Opening: Saturday, 29 September, 6 pm

Art Encounters Foundation

Take Ionescu 46C, 300043 Timisoara

In Pictures: 'Around the Truth is the Truth' solo show by Alex Mirutziu at Kunstverein Ost - KVOST Berlin

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Around the Truth is the Truth

6 September - 15 December, 2018

Kunstverein Ost

Leipziger Str. 47 / Entry Jerusalemer Str., Berlin

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Photos by Alex Mirutziu

Alex Mirutziu & TAH 29, soon at KVOST Berlin

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Alex Mirutziu / Opportunistic mise en scene #16 / 2016 / Mixed media on photograph / 20,3 cm x 30,5 cm Romanian artist Alex Mirutziu explores the fringes of what can be seen or represented. His lightly rendered strokes, referred to as “homeless line…

Alex Mirutziu / Opportunistic mise en scene #16 / 2016 / Mixed media on photograph / 20,3 cm x 30,5 cm

 

Romanian artist Alex Mirutziu explores the fringes of what can be seen or represented. His lightly rendered strokes, referred to as “homeless lines” by the artist, approach the portrayed objects without ever keenly contouring them.

This intended vagueness, leaving room for inconclusiveness, misunderstandings or the indefinable, is also palpable in the artists’ installations and performances. Mirutziu's work surveys the periphery of things and inquires the possibilities of intervention into a fixed order.

Like many artists of his generation growing up in the former eastern bloc, Mirutziu names the wishfully observed culture of the west as an important reference point to his practice. Yet his escape route from the limitations of a post totalitarian Romania wasn’t shaped by the pop cultural iconography that we often see imprinted in contemporary visual aesthetics, but rather radical poetic and philosophical ideas.

Mirutziu's interventions, inscribing bodies, overpainting photographs or installing objects resembling rearview mirrors, often feel crude, direct and brutal. They expose the relationship between concrete reality and subjective actuality as deceptive and constructed. Truth, as reflected in the title of this solo exhibition, is not understood as a moral or absolute category but as an empty center within a complex system of ascriptions, presumptions and fictionalizations.

In his piece „The urgency of the idea of closure in drawing“ Mirutziu will perform alongside his younger self, symbolized by a graphite mask, on the opening night. „The project The Artist as Himself at 29“ (TAH 29) focusses on the instability of self-narrations and the inevitable distortion of past events.

Text by Diana Weis / 2018

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Alex Mirutziu was born 1981 in Sibiu (RO) and lives in Cluj-Napoca (RO). Mirutziu has been lecturing in performance and theatre focused institutions from Royal Academy of Arts, London, to Von Kraal Theatre, Estonia, Konstfack, Stockholm, and collaborated with various artists, among which Grit Hachmeister (DE), Paul Devens (NL), Elias Merino (ES), Graham Foust (US), Graham Harman (US). His most recent projects have been hosted by IASPIS, Stockholm; ZDB, Lisbon; Power Plant, Toronto; The Glass Factory Lab, Boda; Mucsarnok Kusthalle, Budapest; the Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, and the National Museum, Warsaw.

Around the Truth is the Truth

6 September - 15 December, 2018

Opening: 5 September 2018, 7pm

Performance: 8pm

Kunstverein Ost

Leipziger Str. 47 / Entry Jerusalemer Str., Berlin