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www.mocanu.cartier.md --- On Wed, 6/30/10, e-Flux <[email protected]> wrote: From: e-Flux <[email protected]> Subject: Ciprian Muresan at n.b.k. To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 7:51 AM June 30, 2010 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k. Ciprian Mureșan Incorrigible Believers 2009 Photo: Kevin Noble Share this announcement on: Facebook | Delicious | Twitter Ciprian Mureșan 3 July – 22 August 2010 Opening: Friday, July 2, 7 pm Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k. www.nbk.org This show with over 15 works is Ciprian Mureșan's first solo exhibition in an art institution context. His works have been displayed recently in the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Renaissance Society (Chicago), and the New Museum (New York), as well as at the 17th Sydney Biennale. In 2009, he was one of the artists representing Romania at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Mureșan is a member of the editorial team of the art and culture journal IDEA arts+society, one of the most influential art journals in Eastern Europe. Recent work by Mureșan (born 1977 in Cluj) ranges from drawings and animated films to photography, sculpture, and video. Taking as his point of departure the changes in post-Communist states after 1989, he addresses issues of cultural identity and collectivization processes in his works. Throughout, he draws on art history, which leads him to idiosyncratic interpretations of the present. In the two animated films Baptised (2009) and Pioneer (2010), two belief systems stand in opposition to each other: a screaming child is lowered into the baptismal font by a priest, whilst pioneer sniffs glue out of a plastic bag. The animations, made up of a series of individual drawing, take stock in cartoon-film style of the social changes in the New Europe. In the installation Incorrigible Believers (2009), made up of benches and a prayer stand, Mureșan transforms n.b.k. into a sacral space, yet one which is devoid of icons, a crucifix, or a priest. The sculpture The End of The Five-Year Plan (2004) is a reinterpretation of a work by Maurizio Cattelan, La Nona Ora (1999), which caused a scandal when it was first shown. However, instead of Pope John Paul II., here Patriarch Teoctist from the Romanian Orthodox Church is struck by a meteorite. Further works on display include the videos Rhinoceros (2006), Choose (2005), and the animated film 3D Rubliov (2004). The social critique that enters into play in Mureșan's works is a hallmark of the "Cluj-Generation," yet the scope of this criticism extends far beyond the geopolitical situation in south-eastern Europe, without denying this context. This generation is involved in reshaping the role of contemporary art in the transcultural post-migrant society. Curated by Marius Babias Book series "n.b.k. exhibitions" On the occasion of the exhibition, a catalog will be published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, with an essay by Hedwig Saxenhuber, an interview with Raluca Voinea, and a foreword by Marius Babias, 176 pages with color illustrations, German/English. Program Thursday, July 08, 2010 7 pm Artist talk with Ciprian Mureșan (artist, Cluj) and Bojana Pejić (curator of Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe [Vienna/Warsaw 2009/10], Berlin), in English Language Thursday, July 15, 2010 7 pm What does art need its autonomy for? Conversation between Hartmut Böhme (Professor of Cultural Studies, HU Berlin) and Boris Buden (philosopher, Berlin), in German Language Sunday, August 22, 2010 Music-Performance with Zigaretten Rauchen (Berlin) n.b.k. Showroom Gruppenbild 3 Azin Feizabadi, Felix, what will remain after all this?, 2010 July 6–August 20, 2010 n.b.k. Video-Forum Video Of The Month 3 Nira Pereg, Sabbath (2008), 2008 July 6–August 20, 2010 Opening hours Exhibition Tuesday-Sunday, 12am–6pm Thursday, 12am–8pm Showroom/Video-Forum Tuesday/Thursday, 2–8pm Wednesday/Friday, 2–6pm Contact Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k. Chausseestraße 128/129 10115 Berlin, Germany T +49 30 2807020, F +49 30 2807019 E [email protected] www.nbk.org Become a fan on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter 41 Essex street New York, NY 10002, USA Contact us Subscribe Unsubscribe
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