{"id":4345,"date":"2026-03-12T11:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=4345"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:46:06","slug":"ciprian-muresan","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/artist\/ciprian-muresan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciprian Mure\u0219an"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Was co-editor of the magazine <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VERSION<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and has been part of the editorial collective of the magazine <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IDEA art + society<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Cluj-Napoca since 2005. His multifaceted artistic practice (including drawing, painting, graphics, photo-video, sculpture, installations) is based on the recontextualization, deconstruction and visual recomposition of cultural references, of immediate reality and of realities distorted or induced by the media, political, social and economic constraints.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">communism never happened<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The strange negation announced by the title of this work takes on a particular resonance in the Niemeyer Space. The piece opens a space for anachronism, for miscommunications between the ways in which the communist regime was perceived in different geo-political contexts, but also on the personal scale of those who lived with the consequences and separations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sf\u00e2r\u0219itul planului cincinal <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The End of the Five-Year Plan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The End of the Five-Year Plan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2004) is a reinterpretation of Maurizio Cattelan\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La Nona Ora<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1999), in which Pope John Paul II is struck by a meteorite. Ciprian Mure\u0219an replaces the Pope with the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was co-editor of the magazine VERSION and has been part of the editorial collective of the magazine IDEA art + society in Cluj-Napoca since 2005. His multifaceted artistic practice (including drawing, painting, graphics, photo-video, sculpture, installations) is based on the recontextualization, deconstruction and visual recomposition of cultural references, of immediate reality and of realities distorted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"bienala":[],"class_list":["post-4345","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/4345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bienala","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bienala?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}