Syndicate: subREAL in Bucharest

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@transmediale.de>]

Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:47:17 +0200
From: "irina" <irina@icca.ro>
Subject: invitation - opening subREAL in Bucharest



S.P.A.C.E.  Gallery - International Center for Contemporary Art, =
Bucharest,
SINDAN Cultural Center,

FRAME - Finish Fund for Art Exchange Helsinki,

Balkon Cluj Contemporary Art Magazine


Cordially invites you, on Wednesday January 31, 18:00 to attend the =
opening of


subREAL

"Interviewing the cities: Helsinki"

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followed by the launching of the Balkon Cluj Magazine, no 5, special =
issue focussing on visual arts in Finland.

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The events will be honored by the presence of His Excellency Mr. Pekka =
Harttila, The Ambassador of Finland in Romania.

The exhibition is on view until the 16th of February 2001 in =20

S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - ICCA, str.Selari nr.9-11, access from Intrarea =
Soarelui 1, tel/fax: 313.51.10; 313.51.11.



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"Interviewing the cities" took shape in the mid 90s at K=FCnstlerhaus
Bethanien; was continued in 1997-1998 at the Akademie Schloss Solitude,
Stuttgart. It was developed in: Vienna, with the support of =
KulturKontakt;
Amsterdam, through the financing of Stichting De Appel; Helsinki, =
through a
residency from the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, also supported =
by Sindan Cultural Center, Cluj.=20

A sequel to the projects "The Art History Archive" and "Serving Art",
"Interviewing The Cities" aims at documenting private histories in =
relation
with institutions (political, cultural) and sites (architectural, =
natural).
The project is structured in three steps; main medium - b & w =
photography;
main strategy - interaction with people and environments.=20
Steps:
1. "Re-enacting....". A series of double portraits of "visual =
communities"
(artists, curators, critics, collectors, architects, etc.). Using the
semiotic filter of technical photography, "Re-enacting...." recycles the
knowledge from the "Serving Art" series as a procedure for documenting =
the
role of the human factor within the art mechanisms.

2. "Framing..." An exploration of urbanism, as manifest in the =
historical
development of representational buildings, cityscapes, parks etc. And a
visual research on the relation between nature and city through =
landscape
design. Inspired by the clich=E9s of institutional tourism, the series =
is
illustrating the connections between architecture/natural habitat and =
Power