---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: SPECTRE Digest, Vol 115, Issue 27 From: [email protected] Date: Tue, September 18, 2012 5:11 pm To: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 14:01:12 +0300 From: Ioana Calen <[email protected]> Subject: [spectre] Romanian Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 ROMANIAN PAVILION AT 13TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION VENICE 2012: PLAY MINCU: A GAME BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND OFFICIALDOM The Play Mincu Pavilion is a semiotic, interactive installation producing architectural stamps that speak about the two modes of the architectural profession: the artistic aspect - aesthetic and conceptual, and the bureaucratic, judicial aspect, which generates social norms and values. The concept of the pavilion revolves around the personality of Ion Mincu, creator of modern Romanian architecture, who was also active in the political and the bureaucratic side of this field. The exhibition itself has two designs: as a cultural device for mediating contemporary Romanian architecture, and as an ironic de-centering of the respect given to the architects profession in some parts of the world. The postage stamp and the notary seal embosser are the symbolic vectors of the exhibition. Visitors can play with these, producing, for example, notary dry stamps that in real life invest papers with official authority, but, in the context of the Play-Mincu Pavilion, reframe bureaucracy and its normative forces within a cultural act mediating architecture. The Exhibition Play Mincu Pavilion of Romania, the 13th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2012 has been financed by Romanias Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In partnership with the Romanian Institute for Culture and humanistic Research ov Venice and the Union of Architects. The Biennale is open untill 25th of November 2012, 2.00 PM http://www.facebook.com/playmincu Contact details: Curator: Emil Ivanescu ([email protected]) +40748079921 Assistant curator/PR: Ioana Calen ([email protected]) +40727722644 _______________________________________________ SPECTRE mailing list [email protected] http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre End of SPECTRE Digest, Vol 115, Issue 27 **************************************** -- Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" http://oberliht.com . . . . . . . . . . . https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova _______________________________________________ oberlist mailing list [email protected] https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
