Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor
dal 17/3/2011 al 6/5/2011
Segnalato da
17/3/2011
Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor
D+T Project, Bruxelles
'There will be Hope' echoes the declaration of Asmaa Mahfouz the activist who started the Egyptian insurrection. The artist, living in Bucharest, are marked by the social and political situation of their country: echo to numerous political demonstrations from the past decades, to the people resistance against the governments in place.
D+T Project is pleased to announce their next exhibition 'There will be Hope', first solo exhibition in
Belgium, by Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor.
Mona and Florin, living in Bucharest, are marked by the social and political situation of their country.
They witnessed the switch from communism to neo-liberalism and testify the hope that came to
replace disillusions, and fears from people facing the vague promises of an economic development
brought by capitalism.
They mainly reveal what the recent history forgot .. the overall trauma caused by the social and
economic shocks that followed the communism fall-over. Their work reflects - in a subtle and
perceptive way - on the post-communist world.
Beyond their personal references, values, lives, their works also give echo to numerous political
demonstrations from the past decades, to the people resistance against the governments in place,
whether in Greece, Germany or also more recently in Egypt.
'There will be Hope' echoes the declaration of Asmaa Mahfouz the activist who started the Egyptian
insurrection. Asmaa was celebrating her 26th birthday on Tuesday among tens of thousands of
Egyptians as they took to the streets, parting with old fears in a bid to end President Hosni Mubarak’s
three decades of authoritarian, single-party rule.
“As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance,
then there will be hope.”
Asmaa Mahfouz
The exhibition will include paintings from the series that was started in 2007, 'Appointment with
History', a display evolving around Deleuze, 2011, some collage, 2011 and the first screening of their
new video 'Rite of Spring', 2010.
Their work was also presented in several exhibitions around the world :
Land Distribution, Lombard Freid Projects, New-York 2011 | Why do you resist ? Forms of
resistance in contemporary, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok | Open Archive#2, Argos, Brussels, 2010 |
MUHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, 2010 | Related Spaces, Ernst Museum,
Budapest, 2010 | Dissolving Absolute Structures, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany, 2009 | All
power to the imagination !, Secession, Vienna, 2009 | Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor, BAK basis
voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2009 | Blind Spots, Akademie der bildenden Künste
Wien, Vienna, 2009 | 5th Berlin Biennial, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin,2008
| On fiction and political imagination, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2008 | Since we last spoke about
monuments, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, 2008 | Low-Budget Monuments, 52nd Venice Biennial,
Romanian Pavilion, Venice, 2007.
During the D+T Project exhibition, videos will be shown at the Beurschouwburg from March 15 to
March 26
Image: Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Rite of Spring. Film, 7'51", 2010
Opening: thursday 17 march 6-9pm
D+T Project
Rue Bosquet 4 - Brussels
thu, fri, sat 12-6.30pm
and by appointment