“Romanian Contemporary Art 2010-20. Rethinking the Image of the World: Projects and Sketches” (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2020) by Adrian Bojenoiu and Cristian Nae is the first major survey of the transformations taking place in Romanian art in the last decade, focusing on the art of bright young artists with received international confirmation, as well as on significant changes perceived in the artistic practice of the more established ones.
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“In the work of Romanian artist Alex Mirutziu the self portrait expresses his view of social reality in all kinds of symbolic ways. In Self-portrait at 32 (2014) two video screens show footage of abandoned buildings covered with vegetation. The artist regards this work as a metaphor for homosexuality in his country and had dedicated it to outcasts. His work reflects his love-hate relationship with his country of origin, but this is provocative when one considers that in his opinion history "has been muscled up and hijacked for generations until it became a monster, especially in post-revolutionary Romania. Art is therefore a protest for Mirutziu.”
Notes:
Roxana Sima, 'Pessimisms for Export', 26.8.2015 revista artă.ro/pessimisms-for-export
George Robescu, 'Alex Mirutziu is not your personal art Taylor's, 24.6.2013 artsy.net/article/georgerobescu-alex-mirutziu-is-not-your-persinal-art
Fragment taken from “Queer!? Visual Arts in Europe”, Anton Anthonissen, Evert van Straaten, Publishers Waanders Uitgevers, Zwolle [catalogue], 2019, p. 315
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