Documenting the PERIFERIC BIENNIAL |
Evidence of the vanishing points
Presentation by video artist Dan Acostioaei
in the frame of "Documenting the PERIFERIC BIENNIAL"exhibition
The presentation will include preview of new work created during his current residency in the SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, as well as past work.
Using video and photography, Dan Acostioaei investigates the transition in Romanian identity from a traditionalist society to one that has been heavily impacted by consumerism and recently reintroduced in a global setting. Acostioaei’s work has been shown broadly throughout Eastern and Western Europe, as well as in Great Britain and the United States. He is co-organizer of the Periferic Biennale in Romania, and an active board member of the Vector Gallery in Iasi.
Dan Acostioaei is currently in Cleveland through the SPACES World Artists Program, designed to give visiting artists the time and opportunity to create new work and interact with the Northeast Ohio community. Marking the end of his residency, the presentation hosted by the Romanian Cultural Institute on November 21 will include an artist’s talk and presentation of previous work, as well as a preview of "Evidence of the Vanishing Points", the work he has created while in Cleveland which researches the relationships of the Romanian community with the alien environment from several points of view.
"The project sought to reveal the way our current condition is the result of a constant negotiation between our previous mental horizon and the status quo focusing on the capability of a hybrid sense of community to generate an imaginary tradition". Sometimes haunting, and always articulate, Acostioaei’s new work in Cleveland promises to provoke.
SPACES is a nonprofit, artist-run arts organization that provides opportunities for artists to present emerging and provocative ideas in the visual and performing arts. This residency is made possible by a special partnership with CEC ArtsLink and the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, through additional support from the Ohio Arts Council. CEC ArtsLink is a New York based arts service organization whose programs encourage and support exchange among visual and performing artists and cultural managers in the US and in Central Europe, Russia and Eurasia. CEC promotes communication and understanding through collaborative, innovative projects for mutual benefit.
The presentation is made in the framework of
Documenting the PERIFERIC BIENNIAL exhibition
The exhibition documents the seven editions to date of the biennial and the key artists, projects and processes it presented. The first art biennial in Romania and one of the most important in Eastern Europe, Periferic has started as a performance festival, a genre used by many Romanian artists in the bleak 90s, when Romania’s social and political situation was still insecure. The Periferic project has gradually developed a format that accommodates contemporary art exhibitions in an effort to develop an audience and consolidate the art life of the city of Iasi, while focusing on processes and placing them in a wider regional perspective. It won’t be long until Iasi becomes one of the Eastern border outposts of an enlarged European Union. And, since all ends presuppose new beginnings, the city may turn into a regional cultural center which will link neighboring art scenes, from Ukraine to the Republic of Moldova.
(Image: Dan Acostioaei: Video still from "The wedding", 2006, developed during his Cleveland residency)
| TUE, November 21, 2006 (through January 31, 2007), 7:00 pm
RCINY - THE ROMANIAN GALLERY
FREE ADMISSION.
Reservation icrny@icrny.org 212-687-0180 |
