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24/1/2013

Two exhibitions

MNAC - The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest

Dorin Stefan & Augustin Ioan
Utopia / Dystopia
19.12.2012 - 17.02.2013

Curator Ruxandra Balaci

The exhibition presents Dorin Stefan’s Taiwan Tower Experiment (2010-2012) and Augustin Ioan’s project for the Patriarchal Cathedral (unfortunately, both the location and the project from Piata Unirii where the project was conceived, in spite of wining the international competition was later abandoned and was replaced with another project by far less interesting located near the People’s House), in parallel with the architectural achievements of historical communism in Architecture and Power, Augustin Ioan and Nicolae Margineanu’s film synthesis (1992).
The aim was to make a clear demonstration of the oscillation between the possibilities of utopian ideals and the aggravating dystopian choices. Therefore authors/architects/artists in Romania are capable of splendid “utopias”, but they are not listened to in the city... In exchange, mediocrity, mean interest, bad taste and dabbling pompousness sadly institute dystopia... Back then, in communism, just as in nowadays Romania, architecture was a major key in decoding the potentialities, latencies, achievements and failures of a nation...

The opening will be followed by the book launch of Augustin Ioan’s The Architecture of Memory. The New Frontier of the Sacred Space. The volume, published by Igloo media, explores the dimensions of the architecture of memory: from memorial architecture, designed to remind, to co-memorize (most frequently violent and tragic) events in the public space, to architecture in relation with time in general, seen as a time condenser.

Sponsor: Murfatlar
Media Partners: Igloo, Zeppelin, Sapte Seri, Radio France Internationale, feeder.ro

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Passage to the Future
Art from a New Generation in Japan
23.01.2012 - 28.02.2012

Curators: Masanobu Ito and Tetsuo Shimizu

“Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan” focuses on art produced in Japan at the beginning of the 21st century. It showcases 42 works – paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, and videos – of eleven young Japanese artists. They take their subject matter from their immediate surroundings and make art that strongly reflects their own personal reality. Their work has a rich visual impact and reveals a strong interest in the process of making things.

With the support of: Japan Foundation, Embassy of Japan in Bucharest

Artists: Atsushi Fukui, Satoshi Hirose, Maywa Denki, Tomoyasu Murata, Tetsuya Nakamura, Masafumi Sanai, Katsuhiro Saiki, Yoshihiro Suda, Tabaimo, Nobuyuki Takahashi, and Miyuki Yokomizo.

Press contact:
Cosmin Tapu tel. +40-21-3189137; 3139115 cosmin.tapu@mnac.ro

Opening: 25.01.2013, 18h30

MNAC - The National Museum of Contemporary Art
Izvor St. 2-4, wing E4, Bucharest, Romania / Entrance from Calea 13 Septembrie
Open:
Wednesday - Sunday: 10.00 - 18.00
Mondays and Tuesdays Closed

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