29/6/2006
Dan Perjovschi
Portikus, Frankfurt
The artist uses numerous forms of presentation, wall drawings in the inside and outside space, workshops and a lecture. His works follow the subversive language of caricature and graffiti and reflect conflicts and the clash of heterogeneous political contexts that briefly interact before they drift apart or dissolve.
On the other hand
For his exhibition in the Portikus, Dan Perjovschi (born 1961 Sibiu, Romania) uses
numerous forms of presentation -wall drawings in the inside and outside space,
workshops and a lecture. Influences from the media, headlines, gossip and literature
are woven together into the sparse, characteristic line drawings that are comments
on political events, social conflict and power struggles as well as on the art world
and the mechanisms of mass media control. His works follow the subversive language
of caricature and graffiti and reflect conflicts and the clash of heterogeneous
political contexts that briefly interact before they drift apart or dissolve
completely. His drawings are quick, skeptical commentaries. They always reflect a
deeply personal approach.
The title On the other hand hints at possibilities that differ from the stereotypes
of diplomacy and official political agendas. It underlines the complexities and the
instability of social and political life after the Cold War. Dan Perjovschi’s work
as an artist is closely linked to his commitment to a group of Romanian
Intellectuals that in the 1980s founded the “Group of Social Dialogue" as well as to
the oppositional newspaper “22" (published in Bucharest since 1990) where the artist
still works as political illustrator and columnist.
In Perjovschi’s case drawing functions as a performative medium. He is interested in
the vision of the world of young artists living and working in Frankfurt, and will
involve the students of the Stadelschule in a collective process. The problems
and issues that they bring with them to the workshop will form the main themes of
the wall drawings. The exhibition space will serve as a meeting point designed for
the exchange of ideas with photographs and notebooks as key discussion tools.
On June 23rd at 7 pm, a week before the show is opened, Dan Perjovschi will conduct
a lecture in Portikus. Welcome!
The new site specific installation by Olafur Eliasson, Light Lab, Test 2 is also on
view from across the river.
Opening: June 30, 2006, 8 pm
Portikus
Alte Brucke 2 Maininsel - Frankfurt am Main