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CIPRIAN MURESAN - "Expulsion from Paradise"13 May 2007 - 23 June 2007 The series of drawings by Ciprian Muresan entitled Expulsion from Paradise illustrates a story from The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov, where the protagonist fails in becoming an artist who is making a living through propaganda odd jobs. This work, like other projects by Ciprian Muresan, is based on a delicate sense of humor which enables the artist to face history and art without any martyrology. A number of his works allude to Romanian history and culture, showing the characteristic moment of confrontation between the memory of the overturned communist utopia and the new reality of global capitalism. Soldiers who peel potatoes or pretend to be dead for photo seem to be childishly unconscious. However, the children who makethe gesture of slitting the throat or read out aloud Eugene Ionescu\'s drama on totalitarianism, adopt mechanically the mature language of power and violence. Paradoxically, though there is no afterthought to it, a child finds it more difficult to tie his or her shoelaces. Everyday banal rituals mix with the sinister ones, just like the modern civilization mixes different orders and values. The nice Shrek performs a traumatic scene from the surrealist An Andalusian Dog, disclosing once more the utopia of segregating the fairy tale like, idyllic oasis from the perverse and brutal reality.Ciprian Muresan (born in 1977) lives and works in Cluj, Romania. He is a co-editor of the Version art magazine, and the editor of IDEA art+society periodical. Muresan cooperates with plan b gallery from Cluj which presented his works in Poland for the first time last year, within the framework of the Willa Warszawa project. The exhibition at Raster has been organized in cooperation with the Romanian Cultural Institute and plan b gallery. Location:
Raster Gallery
Villa Warsaw raster.gallery@gmail.com ul. Hoża 42 m. 8 00-516 - Warsaw, Poland http://raster.art.pl related projects |
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