Media Mentions
Dec 10, 2023
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The Timișoara Scene and its Connections with the International Directions of Artistic Research
In line with other remarkable events of the European Cultural Capital, the exhibition has undertaken an inter/multi-medial way of working, with the mention that in this case “intermediality” has been treated as a defining feature of Romanian contemporary art. We are dealing with a phenomenon that Ileana Pintilie knows in depth, namely the gradual dissociation of the local art scene from the coordinates of modern art and the formation of a new orientation through the sedimentation of successive experimental waves that, since the 1960s, have investigated essential contemporary themes such as utopias of space or nature as a lesson in form and functionality through drawing, photography and film, and after the 1990s have probed with the same intermedial means the identity crisis of a Romania split between a communist past and an uncertain European future.
Dec 8, 2023
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POROUS MATTER – A Poetics of the Intermedial Void
Just as in aesthetics it has been argued that the Grand Theory of beauty as proportion and visible harmony is only a surface effect of a deeper harmony of intelligible beauty, the meaning of porosity must be sought somewhere at the root of the world, where the number becomes sacred, the metaphysical nothingness proves to be the true measure of Being, art penetrates life and biology, and science becomes charged with harmonies and iridescence.
In this context, the artists and scientists involved in the POROUS MATTER project are pursuing the poetry hidden in scientific representations, laboratory experiments and instrumentation, as well as the resemblances shared between fluid flow and data streams.
May 18, 2023
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Game On
Starting from the context created around Timișoara’s title of cultural capital, the curatorial approach of the Game On exhibition explores the significance of this complex process for the local art scene, trying to pinpoint the line between success and failure and between “small” and “big” artists. The exhibition marks the official opening of Timișoara 2023 and, with its suggestive and ironic title, kicks off an apparent “artistic competition.” The exhibited artists examine the effects of the capitalist system, power structures, and competitiveness on the cultural field, questioning the relationship between art and sport, aesthetics and aggression, rules and chaos, and reviewing the role of contemporary art for the community and the artists themselves.
Oct 26, 2021
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Dystopia or Utopia?
The Apocalypse of the White Elephant therefore aims to create a future retrospective of ourselves, outlining a postapocalyptic landscape in which there is no room for hope or optimism. Even though the ecological crisis and its impact have been widely discussed by researchers, artists, etc., the exhibition’s curators do not showcase a classical view of them, with motivational calls to save the planet; instead they try to offer a pragmatic and exhaustive perspective on the interconnectedness of all spheres of life (political, economic, cultural, social, natural, etc.) and how they can affect us, revealing how deeply the world is being altered.
Feb 3, 2020
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In Vain
In Vain could be the title of the 21st century. In vain have scientists been warning us for more than 40 years now of environmental dangers, in vain has Greta Thunberg tried to rouse the people from their apathy, in vain have curators been talking about the necessary existence of art beyond commercial usability, in vain have artists been crying for more resources, in vain have we depicted the precarious living conditions of artists, refugees, single mothers, sweatshop workers and so on.