Working From Language
Opening: Thursday, 28 May, 19.00
28 May – 12 July 2015
Artists: Ciprian Mureșan and Enric Fort Ballester
Salonul de proiecte continues its series of exhibitions that bring experienced
artists face to face with artists at the start of their careers. This time,
Ciprian Mureșan and Enric Fort Ballester were invited to develop a dialogue
that involves the realisation of new works, presented alongside a number of
existing works. The two worked together at the University of Art in
Braunschweig (Germany), where Enric Fort Ballester was supervised by Ciprian
Mureșan, who taught there for a year.
Ciprian Mureșan constructs a puppet play based on stories imagined by children
in workshops held weeks before shooting the video. In this situation, the roles
are reversed: whereas originally it was the children who improvised using the
puppets, in the film puppeteers manipulate children-puppets according to the
scripts constructed during the workshops. In the exhibition, the performance
will be presented in the form of a video, and on 24 June the puppeteers will
give a live performance of the action captured in the film. In tandem with this
work, the exhibition will also feature the film The Rhinoceroses (2006), which
contextualises Mureșan’s work with theatrical convention, as well as his
reading of this convention through the filter of the language and behaviour of
children. The gloomy vision of society to be found in the original play is
temporarily suspended (or amplified, depending on the angle of interpretation)
by a collective of children, who read the comical-absurd
parts of the characters in the Ionesco play. We can find the same type of
dramatic vision in the film Dog Luv (2009), where dog-puppets become the agents
of a self-destructive human race.
A shared interest in performative practices associated with different forms of
language, which are meant to destabilize and question the communication
function of language, is what connects the two artists. Enric Fort Ballester
conceives a work setting out from recordings without sound, whose protagonists
are people talking to themselves in public spaces. The final result, which
consists in the fictionalisation of this material, will be presented in the
exhibition alongside the intermediate working stages involving the decoding of
these messages without any addressee, exploring the division between speaker
and listener. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, new elements of this
difficult and ambitious undertaking will be progressively unveiled. The
practices of the two artists converge in the adoption of working methods that
consist in the staging of situations whose inherent quota of chance and
unpredictability is processed via subsequent dramatization. Fort Ballester’s
new project is complemented in the exhibition by a series of drawings and a
film, works that convey the artist’s interest in the accelerated precariousness
induced by vectors of globalisation.
Ciprian Mureșan's new piece is co-produced by the David Nolan Gallery in New
York and will be presented at this year’s Art Basel in June.
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Salonul de proiecte is a curatorial program of the National Museum of
Contemporary Art Bucharest, initiated by Magda Radu and Alexandra Croitoru. The
program focuses through exhibitions, presentations, and debates on the Romanian
contemporary art, while positioning young artists’ productions into a broader
generational context, local as well as international.
Team: Magda Radu, Alexandra Croitoru, Ștefan Sava and Alina Bucur
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