Iron Curtain project unites European artists from East and West. Romanian artist Stefan Constantinescu has invited a roster of European artists to create a collective work about the Cold War.
By Richard Unwin. Setting out on an ambitious new project, Romanian artist Stefan Constantinescu has invited an impressive list of European artists to participate in a collective work that will re-interpret memories of the Cold War. Article by Richard Unwin. The centerpiece of “Behind the Iron Curtain” will be an “interactive memory box”, with Constantinescu and seven other artists each creating an object for inclusion. Explaining his inspiration, Constantinescu said, “This project began to take shape first and foremost from a desire to tell my own experience of certain events that shaped the history of the Iron Curtain. As important, though, for the inception of this idea is a suspicion I always had towards the so-called official history. I grew up and was educated in a culture that transformed history according to the precepts of totalitarian ideology. Consequently, the purpose of this project is not to find or say the absolute truth, but rather to offer a different representational model for a recent past.” http://tinyurl.com/28pu9lj _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
