Pending works & Scotopolitic Object - solo show at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, in Munich

© Pending Work #7 / Alex Mirutziu

PENDING WORKS & SCOTOPOLITIC OBJECT

ALEX MIRUTZIU

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle

01.07. - 06.08.2011

Opening: 30.06.2011

“Pending Works and Scotopolitic object” is the title of this gallery’s second solo exhibition of the Romanian artist Alex Mirutziu. Specially created for this exhibition are video pieces, photographs and objects, the concept behind which he himself explains as follows:

“Pending Works operate within a nexus of processes, interactions and mediations that are clearly distinguishable as non-linear, non-cumulative and task-based, with the focus not on what is happening but on when it is happening. What is expressed neither describes nor represents existing matrixes of recognition but rather reformulates possibilities. Images, language and signs are critical engagements with reality and not merely its representation. My attention is devoted to work that is not primarily a productive, result-oriented process. This work may be seen as a complex time frame of the art project, as pure activity that occurs in time. This new practice induces you to look beyond; is there a real there – at all? It reaches beyond the specific realization of an idea towards an expanded cultural and social field. I believe that this particularity is a call for thought, beginning with the artist who applies a task-based principle of announcing the time frame of each work for the different ways it may be observed. This then gives rise to questions on: internal duration of the idea versus external duration of the work; sufficiency of time and its relevancy; how much volume of thought and processed thinking can be put into a specific time frame?

Scotopolitic is the term I have coined to designate an object situation that generates a complex dynamic between the discourse of darkness that exists as a choice – one that should not have language – and an object’s communal and public relevance. Its comprehension evolves between silence, mediation and representation.

Between example theory and negation theory, Scotopolitic object draws attention to the insistence on its captive insight; and, through the repetitive carving of its insight, develops an institutional theme. Its strategic discourse operates on a thin layer of self-contemplative uselessness, bringing the jungle of darkness into the surrounding public space. Finally, what must be considered in this object situation paradigm are the ways these resolutions are negotiated within a larger public environment.”

Alex Mirutziu, born in Romania in 1981, lives and works in London and Sibiu.

More info here

Alex Mirutziu in NY Arts Magazine

Controversial Customs
Summer 2010 - Romania
Daria D. Pervain and Marcel Janco

First and foremost I treat my body as a vessel, as a medium, and then as a space of resistance. I used to name it revolution-wise instrument embedded with political meaning and transversal power, transversal meaning any force physical or ideological, friendly or antagonistic that inspires emotional, conceptual and/or material deviations from the established norms.
In this respect I consider a dense and risky business to take my own body as the main place of confrontation and communication with my own memory and suffering and most of all to articulate this in a conceptual way and so forth.

In my recent work, I try to operate within notions that emerge and coagulate in the mind and perform beyond the spectator’s understanding. Queer entails these sub-notions that cause the possibility for art to explode outward and more than before my work furthers these into language.—Alex Mirutziu

Alex Mirutziu is a Romanian artist whose work cuts across multiple domains, including conceptual writing, performance, photography, and video installations. His work endows social processes with ephemeral emergence as the man constructs in an attempt to reconfigure the relation between information and form, psychophysical language and content, challenging origins and meaning. After the disturbing solo performance, Atrocity Exhibition, in 2004, he continued his research at the University of Fine Arts in Cuenca, Spain, where his performative approach resulted in the censorship of one of his projects, which provoked strong reactions among artists and scholars in both Spain and Romania. Starting in 2004, the investigation of the real began when a new anatomical specimen emerged, Lick&Destroy, a corrupt and ambiguous approach to identity, with which Mirutziu produced himself distinctively in discontinuous, contradictory realities. In 2007, the English director, John Britton, formed an experimental master class with eight heterogeneous performers, one of which was Alex Mirutziu. Shortly after the physically intensive training, he toured England with his social-comment performance, Leave Gordon Brown Alone, produced in Liverpool, Leeds, and Berlin. He received international recognition in Madrid and Paris at Optica Video Art Festival, and was awarded Best Independent Artist. He frequently works with Grit Hachmeister, VIP group, Arandjel Bojanovic, Liviana Dan, and Noa Treister. Following his Manifest of Flaw show at Sabot in October, Alex Mirutziu presented a solo project at Rüdiger Schöttle in Munich.

Photo: 
Alex Mirutziu, Runway spill #1, 2009. HD video 02.19
min transferred on video DVD, screened on
81.5 x 61.5 x 6.5 cm LCD screen. Courtesy of the artist
and Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery.

Alex Mirutziu in DISPLAYING/DISPLACED by Roma - The Road to Contemporary Art

Alex Mirutziu's video "Runway Spill #1", will be screened in DISPLAYING/DISPLACED section of Roma - The Road to Contemporary Art: you can find direct info here:

► www.romacontemporary.it/it/03539/page.html

Alex will present his extraordinary performance after traumatic accident on May 25, 2010 at The Romanian Academy in Rome, wearing George Rusalin, Smaranda Almasan, Alex Nicolae, and shoes by Dana Iuga.

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► www.info.roma.it/evento_newsletter.asp?eventi=18182
► www.romacontemporary.it/it/03539/page.html