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Zacheta National Gallery of Art

Dan Perjovschi, “Dada drawing”, 2008.

Dada East? Romanian Contexts of Dadaism
17th May - 29th June 2008

Zacheta National Gallery of Art
Pl. Malachowskiego 3
00-916 Warsaw, Poland
Phone (+48 22) 827 58 54
rzecznik@zacheta.art.pl
Tues - Sun 12 noon - 8 p.m.

http://www.zacheta.art.pl

Artists participating in the exhibition: Irina Botea, Mircea Cantor, Stefan Constantinescu, Harun Farocki, Ion Grigorescu, Sebastian Moldovan, Ciprian Muresan, Dan Perjovschi, Lia Perjovschi, Cristi Pogacean, Florin Tudor, Andrei Ujica, Mona Vatamanu.

Dada was officially born on 5 February 1916, when Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings opened a literary and artistic cabaret, the Cabaret Voltaire, in the Meierei restaurant on Spiegelgasse 1 in Zurich. Four refugees form the increasingly nationalistic, war-entangled Romania participated in the events of that fateful evening: Marcel Janco, Tristan Tzara, George Janco and probably Arthur Segal. These young artists almost immediately became involved in the performances of the Cabaret Voltaire and in the creation of a new avant-garde movement that was eventually to revolutionise the world of art. It is actually puzzling how often Western researchers pass over Dadaism’s Romanian roots. Before the First World War, there existed in Bucharest a lively art scene, focused around the magazines, animated by Tzara and Marcel Janco, Simbolul and Chemarea, a scene promoting values that would later become fundamental for the Dada movement. Tom Sandqvist is one of the few experts on the subject wh
o actually did research in Romania, tracking down the traces of artistic evolution in the ‘Little Paris of the Balkans’. In his view, the sources of the Romanian avant-garde movement include not only symbolism, futurism and folklore, but also the Eastern European Yiddish culture, which in fact must have had a significant impact on the development of the artistic personalities of the Cabaret Voltaire Romanians.

The project has the ambition to be a voice in the debate on Dadaism. The intention is not only to stress the Dada movement’s complex nature by remembering the forgotten question of its Romanian roots and to document the artistic and personal context of the activities of Tzara, the Janco brothers and Arthur Segal both before and after their departure from Romania. The project’s historical and documental element is also a starting point for a discussion about how the question of Dadaism’s Romanian roots can be viewed in the contemporary context. Moreover, it reflects the potential and significance of the concept of ‘Dada East’ for the Romanian cultural scene and uncovers how contemporary artists relate to the historical Dada movement. The dialogue between history and the present that took place as part of this project helps understand how much Dadaism, and above all its leading artistic personalities, and the strategies and attitudes they practice, have influenced con
temporary art and what an important source of inspiration they constitute today.

The in situ installations by Dan Perjovschi, Lia Perjovschi, Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor, the works by Mircea Cantor and Ciprian Muresan, and the text by Ion Grigorescu, all of which have been made specifically for this exhibition, are a kind of response, a direct reaction to the question we asked about the significance and topicality, obscured during the Ceausescu era, of the history of Dadaism. This is why the exhibition features works illustrating the paradoxes of the communist system: for this is part of the context for the reception of the problem of the early-20th-century avant-gardes in Romania. The resonance that arises between the ignored history of the Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire and contemporary works points clearly to the continuing topicality and proper significance of the art and history of Dada.

The exhibition is accompanied by the catalogue Dada East? Romanian Contexts of Dadaism, (Polish/English version) published by Zacheta National Gallery of Art, with contributions by Ion Grigorescu, Zofia Machnicka, Ion Pop, Alina Serban, including also an interview with Tom Sandqvist by Zofia Machnicka.

Curators: Zofia Machnicka (Zacheta National Gallery of Art) and Adrian Notz (cabaret voltaire)

For images and further information please contact Olga Gawerska rzecznik@zacheta.art.pl

The exhibition is organized in collaboration with cabaret voltaire in Zurich and supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Warsaw and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

sponsors of the Zacheta gallery: Leroy Merlin, Peri, Netia, Klima San
media patronage: Gazeta Wyborcza, Polityka, TVP, TOK FM, The Warsaw Voice, Art & Business, Onet.pl, Empik

German Pavilion

Liam Gillick
Three perspectives and a short scenario, 2008
Installation view Witte de With
Courtesy Liam Gillick, Copyright: Bob Goedewaagen

Die Zukunft verhält sich immer anders.

The future always acts differently.

Liam Gillick at the German Pavilion
in Venice 2009.

http://www.wdw.nl/persfoto/gillick/index.htm

Liam Gillick will be the artist presented at the German Pavilion during the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. The curator of the German Pavilion is Nicolaus Schafhausen, director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.

Liam Gillick lives and works in New York and London. The artist, who has produced much of his work in Germany, was early to address emergent post-socialist systems and new social models in Europe. His practice represents the ideal projection surface for contemporary art in the twenty-first century. His work operates on several levels of a multi-layered artworld. The theme of his work is the varied phenomena of social utopias that he stages via hypothetical social models, both visual and literary.

Nicolaus Schafhausen: “Through his need to play with the complexity of the contemporary terrain, Gillick has provided models of thought that are not merely binary. He has operated in parallel to known models of work - critic, designer and artist. And this has permitted him to provoke new questions without the necessity to offer simple solutions.”

Liam Gillick: “My work requires a critical terrain that is both sophisticated and skeptical. I view this as a continuation of an ongoing dialogue. The question will be how to produce rather than merely how to present. I operate in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the modernist self-consciousness. The work is both contingent and specific.”

Liam Gillick and Nicolaus Schafhausen have been involved in a continuous dialogue since the end of the 1980s. Before the Biennale, between November 2008 and May 2009, the artist and curator will collaborate on a number of events that will take place in Germany, Europe and the United States. This year Liam Gillick has had solo exhibitions in Rotterdam, Zurich and Munich and has forthcoming group exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and The Guggenheim Museum in New York. Next year he will have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. - The exhibition at the German Pavilion is commissioned by the German Foreign Ministry and will be realized together with the Institute of Foreign Affairs (ifa). Duration of exhibition: 7th June until 22nd November 2009.

More information: http://www.wdw.nl/persfoto/gillick/index.htm

Reference:
Liam Gillick: five or six
Edited by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, and Caroline Schneider
2000, English/German, Sternberg Press
ISBN-10: 0967180260
ISBN-13: 978-0967180267

The German Pavilion:
LIAM GILLICK: Artist
NICOLAUS SCHAFHAUSEN: Curator
EVA HUTTENLAUCH: Project Manager
CAROLINE SCHNEIDER: Editorial Advisor
KATHRIN LUZ: Press and Public Relations
NATASA RADOVIC: Venice Assistant
THOMAS HUESMANN, PAUL VAN GENNIP and WITTE DE WITH Center for Contemporary Art: Technical Realisation

Contact German Pavilion:
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
Witte de Withstraat 50
NL - 3012 BR Rotterdam
Tel +31 (0) 10 4110144
Fax +31 (0) 10 4117924
info@deutscher-pavillon.org

Press contact for the German Pavilion:
KATHRIN LUZ
Neumann Luz Cooperation
Lübecker Str. 11
D - 50668 Cologne
Tel +49 (0) 221 9235987
Fax +49 (0) 221 9235988
kl@neumann-luz.de

Van Abbemuseum

Be(com)ing Dutch - the exhibition
24 May - 14 September 2008

Van Abbemuseum
Bilderdijklaan 10
Eindhoven - The Netherlands

http://www.becomingdutch.com
http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl

Be(com)ing Dutch is a highly innovative exhibition

The exhibition is part of a large-scale project that has evolved over two years focussing on identity, diversity and nationality and which takes the Netherlands as its case study. In those two years, Charles Esche (director) and Annie Fletcher (curator) have been talking with artists, intellectuals, politicians and the people of Eindhoven to find possible answers to complex questions. What does the notion of ‘Being Dutch’ or ‘Becoming Dutch’ mean or encapsulate in the 21st century? What does national identity mean in a time of global migration? These topical and pressing questions are playing on many people’s minds. More than 35 Dutch and international artists, 21 of whom created new work especially for the event, respond to the question of what it means to live in the Netherlands. The project is unusual because it takes on an outright political and social subject and translates it into artistic terms.

Be(com)ing Dutch in the Museum
The Be(com)ing Dutch exhibition is composed of three sections: the imagined past, present and future.

The Imagined Past presents for example, work by renowned artists such as Daan Van Golden, Ed van der Elsken, Johan van der Keuken and Gerrit Dekker, their work addresses travel, cosmopolitanism and cultural diversity. An exploration of cultural and colonial relations between the Netherlands and Indonesia is seen in Wendelien van Oldenborgh’s new film installation, No False Echoes. Abdellatif Benfaidoul’s work studies multiculturalism in the Netherlands and shows how Moroccan culture influences Dutch culture. ‘Recruiting Identities’ is a search through existing visual material, revealing the way in which guest workers were selected to come to the Netherlands and evaluating the criteria which were used.

The Imagined Present considers contemporary reality. Italian artist Mario Rizzi followed the Dutch ‘civic integration’ process from close quarters for five months to produce the film Congratulations, and a sound piece by Lebanese artist Rana Hamadeh investigates the different reactions to, and interpretations of, her work in the Netherlands and Beirut. With a collection of more than 100 passports from all over the world Tintin Wulia has created a compelling work composed of a worldly palette
of colours.

For the Imagined Future, ideas of what is yet to come are developed by artists in speculative and innovative ways. The Indonesian artist Agung Kurniawan guides the visitor into the Museum of Misunderstandings; a large installation intended to unveil current absurdities and miscommunication regarding cultural prejudices and traditional cultural artefacts. Surasi Kusolwong devises an elaborate installation which fuses all kinds of cultural heritages and art works. He thus proposes new ways to enjoy the museum and its ‘cultural classics’

Be(com)ing Dutch in the City
Art Beyond the Walls is the umbrella title for several performances being staged in the city. Internationally renowned photographer and filmmaker Phil Collins devised the public project Free Fotolab, inviting all Eindhoven’s inhabitants to have their old 35mm negatives developed for free at a photography shop opposite the museum, thereby aiming to show the hidden images of Eindhoven, its inhabitants and their personal lives. The artists Bik Van der Pol are organizing the performance event Close Encounters in the Evoluon, in an attempt to challenge different communities and generations to join forces thereby asking wether a collective mental willpower is able to create a substantial feat
of strength.

Participating artists
Petra Bauer, Abdellatif Benfaidoul, Bik Van der Pol, Michael Blum, Libia Castro/ Ólafur Ólafsson, Phil Collins, Carla Cruz, Gerrit Dekker, Erwin van Doorn, Ronen Eidelman, Ed van der Elsken, Hadassah Emmerich, Alexandra Ferreira, Daan van Golden, Rana Hamadeh, Nicoline van Harskamp, Alicia Herrero, Hans van Houwelingen, Johan van der Keuken, Annette Krauss, Agung Kurniawan, Surasi Kusolwong, Toos Nijssen, Ahmet Ögüt, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Ilya Rabinovich, Mario Rizzi, Mounira Al Solh, Fiona Tan, Oguz Tatari, Alite Thijsen, Lidwien van de Ven, Tintin Wulia, Bettina Wind.

Be(com)ing Dutch
The Be(com)ing Dutch project was launched in January 2007 with The Gatherings, a weekend of talks, debates, art projects and presentations. The second phase of the project was staged in late 2007: the Eindhoven Caucus. Over a period of four weeks there were intensive discussions and lectures among and by thinkers and artists from all over the world.

The Mondriaan Foundation awarded its 2006 Development Prize for Cultural Diversity to the Van Abbemuseum for the Be(com)ing Dutch project.

T +31 (0)40 238 10 00
F +31 (0)40 246 06 80
info@vanabbemuseum.nl

http://www.becomingdutch.com
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