Opening of FROM CONTEMPLATING TO CONSTRUCTING SITUATIONS

On June 02, 2011, PAVILION UNICREDIT opened FROM CONTEMPLATING TO CONSTRUCTING SITUATIONS, a new exhibition curated by Razvan Ion.

Participants: Francis Alys (BE/MX), Minerva Cuevas (MX), Ciprian Homorodean (BE/RO), Jason Loebs (US), Wilfredo Prieto (CU), Sabine Rethore (FR), Temporary Services (US), Abdellah Taia (MA/FR), Erwin Wurm (A)

Kant was the one who launched the interrogation on our knowledge’s conditions of possibility and the one who explicitly understood this interrogation as being a critical act. From now on, we can say that the modern reflection is either critical – in this auto-reflective sense- or it is not modern. (Boris Buden) But, the freudian, foucaultian, postmodern, stalinist, leninist repression etc. is identical, and what can make a difference is the astonishment of the self and the possibility to say “no” to the oppressive state (without transforming this into an anarchist wailing ). Too much blood has been spilled to let the art and the revolutionary machine be set apart. The move from the contemplation of a situation to its representation, must be made immediately.

The reader and it’s physical projection, the exhibition, deals with different generations of artists and thinkers which refuse to participate in the tired prescriptions of marketplace and authority and instead create radical new methods of engagement. The concept try to develops an indispensable, contemporary conception of political change, a conception that transcends the outmoded formulations of insurrection and resistance. I believe too much blood and ink has been shed for the art machines and the revolutionary machines to remain separate. (Razvan Ion)

(from left to right) Anca Nuta, Eugen Radescu,
Razvan Ion, Jason Loebs, Andrei Craciun

Razvan Ion, Director of PAVILION UNICREDIT and curator of the show.

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