Syndicate: Petrovski: Small Talk, Skopje, 20.4.-20.5.2001

[Inke Arns <inke@snafu.de>]

From: "Zoran Petrovski" <zpet@sonet.com.mk>
Subject: Info:Small Talk
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:12:31 +0200


MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART - SKOPJE

Announces the opening of the exhibition

SMALL TALK://
                        :\\LAF-MUHABET


Curated by: Luchezar Boyadjiev and Zoran Petrovski

Museum of Contemporary Art-Skopje, 20. 04. - 20. 05. 2001


The Turkish expression "laf-muhabet" (small-talk) is in common use in some
parts of the Balkans, which were under the centuries long Ottoman ruling,
and describing the typical oriental culture of a friendly chat about
serious or ordinary things and relations. In times when people in the
Balkans keep claiming their ethnical, religious, national, traditional and
whatever differences, Laf-Muhabet is an exhibition that is on the other
side of the divisions, it's an exhibition about common and everyday
relations that connect people and make them understand each other.

As an exhibition project, "Small Talk" is about artists, who have worked
together "here" and/or "there", and who, for instance, while working on
their installations, have been "small talking" to each other while waiting
for a bucket of paint, or a bunch of nails, or a customs official to
release the works, or . etc. This is the time artists share things that
don't seem to bare any significance on the Big Score but illuminate the
lives they have, things that one tends to forget overnight, but which are
so persistent - in various guises they are with us every day and every
second. Small talk starts the moment you meet a friend and say: "Hi,
haven't seen you for a while? How's life, how have you been? How are you
doin'?". And then - a bit of complaining, a bit of bragging, a bit of
gossip, a bit of fact, a bit of this and that. Then all of a sudden there
is the full picture of life right between two (or more) people.

The exhibition "Small Talk" would be about people (artists) and their
regular daily lives turned into "an issue based" art. It's about the moment
when divisions fall apart and identities become tangible. It is about what
happens to you in the period of time between the "Great Idea" and the
"Great Opening", about immediate physical surroundings and/or immediate
life environments shared with the public.

>>>List of artists:

Oliver Musovik, Skopje/Roza El-Hassan, Budapest/Anri Sala,
Tirana-Lille/Vadim Fishkin, Ljubljana/Yuri Leiderman, Moscow/Milica Tomic,
Belgrade/Hale Tenger, Istanbul/Slavica Janeshlieva, Skopje/Luchezar
Boyadjiev, Sofia/Dan Perjovschi, Bucharest/Lea Perjovschi, Bucharest/Sophie
Lecomte, Paris/Stephane Cevran, Paris/Yane Calovski, Philadelphia-Skopje

Program for the Gallery Talks in the Cultural Location "The Site",
beginning at 20.00

Wednesday, 18. 04. - Sophie Lecomt/ Stephane Cevran
Thursday, 19. 04. - Vadim Fishkin/ Yuri Leiderman
Saturday, 21. 04. - Roza El Hassan/ Luchezar Boyadjiev/ Yane Calovski
Sunday, 22. 04. - Dan&Lea Perjovschi/ Slavica Janeslieva

>>>Information>>>Museum of Contemporary Art-Skopje
                               Box 482, MKD-1000 Skopje,
                               +389 2 117-734; 117-735, fax +389 2 110-123
                               moca@sonet.com.mk / zpet@sonet.com.mk


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