[Nettime-ro] Reminder: Marti 8 iunie ora 18.00 grupul focAR prezinta MOnuMENTS la UNA galeria

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Universitatea Nationala de Arte
- UNAgaleria
va invita sa
vizitati expozitia
 
MOnuMENTS- un proiect al grupuluifocAR (Alina Tudor &Razvan Neagoe)
Curator Cristiana Radu
 
Vernisaj 8 iunie 2010, ora
18.00
UNA galeria,Str. G-ral Budisteanu nr. 10
Expozitia poate fi vizitata in
perioada 8-18 iunie 2010 
si in cadrul NAG (www.noapteagaleriilor.ro) intre orele 20:00 â 04:00
 
 
Proiectul
MOnuMENTS porneste de la necesitatea unei reflectii asupra relatiei deficitare
pe care o avem cu istoria si memoria recenta, urmarind o piesa reprezentativa
pentru relatia dintre discursul politic si tesutul urban. Aflat in desfasurare,
ca un proiect de termen lung, MOnuMENTS urmareste cartografierea tarii pe zone
- Dobrogea, Banat, Muntenia, Oltenia, Moldova, Ardeal, Maramures - documentand
si arhivand monumentele de toate tipurile de pe intreg teritoriul tarii.
Rezultatul va fi o âhartaâ identitara a tarii prin prisma monumentelor sale.
 
Monumentele
constituie un indiciu asupra felului in care ne privim istoria proprie si pe
noi insine, ca popor. Asupra valorilor ideologice ale unei perioade istorice si
asupra felului in care ne-am raportat/ne raportam la ele. Asupra raportului
dintre arta si politica. Avatarurile suferite de ele in timp sunt un barometru
bun al schimbarilor politice si sociale petrecute in spatiul pe care il
populeaza.
 
Documentarea a
inceput in 2007, iar prima actiune a avut loc in 2009, pe traseul Constanta-Bucuresti
si a constat in depunerea unui buchet de flori la fiecare monument si
respectarea unui moment de reculegere in memoria eroilor. Scopul imediat a fost
acela de a atrage atentia asupra unor monumente uitate sau aflate intr-o stare
de degradare vizibila.
 
Tipul de
cercetare artistica propus nu isi aroga exhaustivitatea si nici obiectivitatea
sau tipul de analiza al cercetarii stiintifice, ci propune o meditatie asupra
relatiei dintre individ, comunitate si istorie, o intalnire vie intre âieriâ si
âaziâ, intre mentalitati si valori diferite, intre noi cei de azi si martorii
tacuti ai vremurilor trecute. Noteaza diferente intre dezvoltarea urbana si cea rurala,
intre gesturi politice/culturale, gesturi individuale sau colective.
Tangential, atinge teme precum arta in spatiu public, urbanism, moduri de
comunicare, tipuri de comunitati, totalitarism, manipulare, violenta.
Dorim sa opunem
stergerii memoriei colective o memorie âvieâ, urmarind in timp avatarurile â
dislocari fizice sau dislocari de sens, reconstructii etc - suferite de aceste
simboluri nationale. Raportul MOnuMENT â MOMENT este
definit de cel putin trei momente semnificative pe care vrem sa le aducem in
atentie: 
Momentul
constructiei si inaugurarii monumentului (data, locatie, autor, tehnica,
comanditar etc)
Momentul evocat
(tema, reprezentarea, titlu, istoric etc)
Momentul
fotografierii (starea lui actuala, eventuale modificari, restaurari,
reconditionari, semnificatia lui acum etc). 
 
Selectia de
imagini prezentata in expozitie se concentreaza asupra figurilor eroilor din
diverse perioade istorice. Majoritatea evoca primul sau al doilea razboi
mondial. Cele mai vechi, de pe vremea Regelui Ferdinand sau a Regelui Carol, au
suferit diverse recosmetizari â regimul comunist nu a demolat toate monumentele
anterioare, insa a operat modificari â s-au mai adaugat nume, au fost scoase
placute comemorative, unele monumente au fost reamplasate, altele vandalizate. 
 
Proiectul de
documentare si cercetare MOnuMENTS a continuat si in Londra, avand curatori pe
Lars Vilhelmsen si Karen Ay. In perioada martie - aprilie 2010 am pornit la
drum impreuna cu âThe Travellers Box Projectâ, o serie de trei performance-uri
adaugand o noua dimensiune proiectului. Observarea prin comparatie a
monumentelor din cele doua capitale, Bucuresti si Londra, a permis tragerea
unor concluzii interesante privind modurile diferite de raportare la istoria
proprie praticate in cele doua spatii, respectul/lipsa de interes fata de
insemnele nationale ale trecutului oferind un indiciu asupra relatiei de
apreciere/comercializare/conflictuala/indiferenta fata de propriul trecut. 
 
The Travellers
Box functioneaza ca discurs artistic, purtat intre artisti, in cadrul caruia
atat analiza cat si productia propriu-zisa joaca un rol important. La baza
proiectului se afla notiunea de colaborare intre diferitele puncte de vedere
ale artistilor, pornind de la interactiunile acestora cu âCutiaâ, ca si
relatiile care se dezvolta din aceste interactiuni si se manifesta in diferite
forme.
 
 
Mai multe
detalii:
http://focar.artforclick.com/2009/11/03/monuments/
http://focar.artforclick.com/2010/03/23/the-travellers-box-project-in-addition-to-with-monuments-project/
focAR group (Alina Tudor and Razvan Neagoe)
 
 
 
National
University of Arts - UNAgaleria
have
the honour to invite you to visit the present exhibition
 
MOnuMENTS - a focAR group project (Alina
Tudor & Razvan Neagoe)
Curator Cristian
Radu
 
Opening on the 8th of June 2010, 6:00 pm
UNA gallery, 10
G-ral Budisteanu Street
the exhibition is open in between 8 - 18 June 2010
the exhibition makes part of âThe White Night of Galleriesâ event in between
8:00 pm - 4:00 am
            
            MOnuMENTS project starts from the necessity of a
reflexion on the deficitary relationship we have with history and recent memory, following a representative piece for the relationship
between the political discourse and urban weaving. Developing like a
long-term project, MOnuMENTS maps the country following zones: Dobrudja, Banat,
Wallachia, Oltenia, Moldavia, Transylvania, Maramures â gathering
documentary evidence and archiving monuments of all types on all country
territory. 
 
MOnuMENTS represents an
indication of the way in which we see our own history and ourselves as people.
An indication of ideological values belonging to a certain historic period to which we have referred. An indication
of art and politics. Avatars they have undergone throughout the time are a good
barometer of political and social changes that have occurred in the space they
populate.
 
Documentation started in
2007, the first event occurred in 2009 on Constantza â Bucharest route and consisted in flowers laid
in each monument and marking their regret by standing silently for a minute.
The immediate purpose was to draw attention to those monuments forgotten or
being in visible degradation.
 
The type of the artistic
research proposed neither arrogate to itself exhaustition nor objectivity nor
the type of scientific analysis but proposes a meditation on relationship among the individual, community and
history, a live encounter between âyesterdayâ and âtodayâ, between
mentalities and different values, between us of today and taciturn witnesses of
the past. It remarks the differences between the urban development and the
rural one, between political/cultural gestures. Tangentially it touches as well
themes like art in public space, urbanism, ways of communication, types of
communication, totalitarianism, manipulation violence.
In the relation MONUMENT â MOMENT the time factor is also important: for every monument there are at
least three significant moments, which we want to bring them into attention: 
-          the moment of
construction and the monument inauguration (date, location, author, technique,
ordering authority, etc)
-          the moment of
evocation (theme, representation, title, history, etc)
-          The moment taking
the photograph (actual state, eventual changes, restoration, reconditioning,
its actual significance).
 
We want to oppose objective
memory wiping to live memory, following in time the avatars â physical
dislocations or sense dislocations, reconstructions etc â undergone by these
national symbols. 
The selection of images
presented in this exhibition is focused on heroesâ figures from different
historical periods. Most of them evoke the first or Second World War The oldest
ones from King Ferdinand time or King Carol time have underwent different
remarking-up-communism system did not demolish all the previous monuments, but
it made changes-adding names taking out plagues, replacing some or vandalizing
other.
The project of gathering
evidence and researching MOnuMENTS it also continued in London having the curators Lars Vilhelmsen
and Karen Ay. During the period March-April 2010 they started up along with The
Travellers Box project a series of three performances adding a new dimension to
the project. Noticing comparatively the monuments of the two capitals London
and Bucharest allowed reaching some interesting conclusions concerning
different ways of reporting to own history practised in the two spaces/respect
/ lack of concern towards the national insignia of the past showing a sign of
the relation appreciation commercialization â conflictual/indifference  towards the past the differences are found
not in the part of the representation but in the one of presentation the London
ones similar in subject and creation being comparatively perfectly turned to
good account.
The Travellers Box works like
artistic discourse engaged by artists in which both the analyses and the proper
production play an important part. Lying at the basis of the project the motion
of collaboration among artists different points of view starts from their
interactions with the Box as well as relationships which are developed from
these interactions and manifests in different forms.
 
For more details please visit:
http://focar.artforclick.com/2009/11/03/monuments/
http://focar.artforclick.com/2010/03/23/the-travellers-box-project-in-addition-to-with-monuments-project/
focAR group (Alina Tudor and Razvan Neagoe)


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