Common Nostalgia
dal 3/4/2013 al 6/7/2013
Segnalato da
3/4/2013
Common Nostalgia
Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest
A group show about nostalgia with Dan Raul Pintea, Stefan Sava (RO), Nicolae Constantin Tanase and Swel Nouryassume.
Curated by Eugen Rădescu
Artists: Dan Raul Pintea (RO), Ștefan Sava (RO), Nicolae
Constantin Tănase (RO), Swel Noury (MAR)
Nostalgia shackles the exercise of the future. Nostalgia, by
definition enforces the abdication of perspective and re-penetration
of the past. It is some sort of melancholy driven by the wish of
re-seeing something or someone from the past; such as when the
nostalgic subject goes on with the narcissist identification with the
lost object/place; and this subject remains faithful to the lost
object, with a pathological wish of not giving up this attachment.
Nostalgia is nor fado, nor the romantic swiss term of
“kuhreihen”. I see it more as an “ostalgie”. A common sense of
a loss, of a regret – full of demons. I emphasize the antihegelian
side of the nostalgia, because the “mourning” and the
consciousness of the comeback to the past has the structure of the
“overflow” from which the essence of the notion of an object/being
is kept. This is how the “mourner” grieves the lost object and
“kills it the second time” by the typification and concretisation
of its loss. The nostalgic isn’t the one who hasn’t got the power
to give up of that something from the past, on the contrary, he
“kills the second time” before the object is lost for good.
In the exhibition “Common nostalgia”, which will be open between
the 4th of April and the 7th of July 2013, I started from the premise
that the subjectifying of the loss and the objectifying of the feeling
of losing something could reduce the consistency of the nostalgic type
of living, because the exhibited works assume to reach all means of
the idea of nostalgia. From “love”, a feeling coming from a casual
past, which becomes the subject of what can be assimilated, to the
“ostalgie” of the family memories, microcosmos, of a place with
your own people. “Ostalgia” is a sociological german term coming
from “nostalgia” and “ost” which means “east”, therefore a
nostalgia of the East, in its geopolitical meaning.
"I hope you’ll like it"
Eugen Rădescu
Eugen Rădescu is politologist (specialized in moral relativism and
political ethics), cultural manager, curator and theoretician. He
writes for various magazines and newspapers. He curated, among others,
Bucharest Biennale 1 with the theme “Identity Factories”, “How
Innocent Is That?” and “presently i have nothig to show and i’m
showing it!” at Pavilion Bucharest. He published the book “How
Innocent Is That?” at REVOLVER BOOKS Berlin, Germany. He is
co-editor of PAVILION – journal for politics and culture and
co-director of Bucharest Biennale (with Răzvan Ion) and the chairman
of the organizational board of Pavilion and Bucharest Biennale. He is
member of a apexart jury at apexart Franchise and Unsolicited Proposal
Programs. He had different lectures all around the world, at
University of Arts in Cluj, apex, New York, Badisher Kunstverein,
Karlshrue, Germania, Casa Encedida, Madrid. Now he is working on a new
book, “Moral relativism – two perspectives”. He is professor at
Bucharest University and Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj and PhD
candidate at Babes-Bolyiai University. Lives and works in Bucharest.
Exhibition supported by PAVILION – journal for politics and
culture.
PAVILION is proudly supported by UNICREDIT ȚIRIAC BANK.
Image: Dan Raul Pintea, “Dragoste”, acrylic spray on concrete, 30
x 94 cm, 2012. Courtesy of the artist.
Opening: Thursday, 04 April 2013, 19.00
PAVILION center for contemporary art & culture
proudly supported by UniCredit Tiriac Bank
Sos. Nicolae Titulescu 1 (Piata Victoriei) - Bucharest 011131 Romania
Admission free