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Alex Mirutziu's performative oeuvre on show at National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest

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No Blood Bank Included

SOLO EXHIBITION

as part of BIDFF (Bucharest International Dance Film Festival) in partnership with the Performing Arts Programme of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Ioana Paun

@THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, BUCHAREST (MNAC)

Exhibition visiting dates/hours |  SEPT 9 - OCT 1| 12 PM - 8 PM (regular museum ticket)

 

 

- all photos by Alex Mirutziu with the exception of the last  6 in line, bearing the copyright of Doria Photography.

Alex Mirutziu

As long as against an artwork we position ourselves frontality, we tend to do so brutally charged and equally emotional. The works in the exhibition are impossible to be perceived frontally, be it visually or multi-sensorially, but only by detour, alas slowly digesting it to the point of loosing oneself. My most recent works move away from the logic of ‘me’ - ‘here — ‘the rest’ - outside, and deal with uncertain dimensions which exhibits one/other meaning as well as with links of co-existence between multiple presences, approaches or appearances of the individual and of the world in which he/she belongs that cannot ever run out of steam.

Even when ‘here’ and ‘now’ structure our understanding, these are contaminated by an act of re-installment, or re-demarcation of the creative act. Demand joining efforts, multiple foldings.I insist in creating a climate that brings forth the likes of something to be later metabolised. This selection of works are part of such a mechanism of making meaning from proximity. I’m not interested in approaching this mechanism in a critical way, rather the contrary, due to the fact that critique entails a sort of way of looking at the object from the outside, short-circuited by spilling consciousness. It has not been proved that such a way of accessing reality has ever had enough stamina to be able to arrive at the end of a demonstration.

For complete list of films follow the link: http://www.bidff.ro/alex-mirutziu-en

Many thanks for the thought and energy that went into production and instalment to: Simona Deaconescu (Artistic Director of BIDFF), Anamaria Antoci (Festival Manager), Irena Isbasescu (International Relations), Emilia Paunescu (Production Manager) an all the BIDFF team which made this show possible and for Ioana Paun, chief curator of performative arts at MNAC for her  quick-thinking and functionalist approach. 

 

'Crossing Cluj' exhibition takes in MOMENT OF SILENCE for Pending Work #7

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Alex Mirutziu-Moment of Silence for 194-12-08-50-247 of-Pending Work 7. Photo by Daria Dumitrescu

Installation view 

MOMENT OF SILENCE for 194-12-08-50-247 of-Pending Work # 7 presented in a special project attached to Art Market Budapest, 2012 from November 8-11 at Millenaris Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary.

This work is part of the series entitled Pending Works, that deal with silence as part of an artwork just as neverness is part of an artwork, that is, forwards the idea of post-participation and post-performance with and within a hyperobject  time frame.

The 2012 edition of Art Market Budapest draws particular attention to, and builds a complex program around the internationally renowned contemporary art scene of the Transylvanian city of Cluj. The Cluj art scene is presented in a way it has never been seen before: in the broader context of, and with focus on its Eastern European roots.

Crossing Cluj is one of the independent curatorial projects of Art Market Budapest. The concept of the exhibition is to demonstrate the diversity and complexity that is present in the works of the selected, already internationally renowned, artists from Cluj – juxtaposed with works by artists living in Hungary.

The ‘Cluj phenomenon’ appears at Art Market Budapest in a different light this time, namely it aims to deconstruct those uniform discourses that usually identify the activities of these artists with socio-politically reflective figurative painting or with conceptual art. The exhibition draws attention to the complexity of subject matter and the diverse artistic approaches, putting a special emphasis on the individuality of the artists.

The artworks by artists living in Hungary demonstrate that because of the universal language of art, the local and global, social as well as artistic issues, and moreover, because of the cultural parallels that we can see between the two locations, there are resonances between the artists living in Budapest and those in Cluj.

The short texts displayed next to the exhibited artworks were written by the artists, and through them we can come closer to their art, and also understand what the city of Cluj means to them.

Participating artists: Teodora AXENTE - Gyula BADITZ - Marius BERCEA - Zsolt BERSZÁN - Zsolt BODONI - Mihut BOSCU - Levente HERMAN - Alex MIRUTZIU - Ciprian MURESAN - Miklos ONUCSAN - Sorin NEAMTU - Cristi POGACEAN - Serban SAVU - MirceaSUCIU - Szabolcs VERES

Curator: Délia VÉKONY