With the participation of selected artists in the mentorship If a story is present: Loredana Ilie, Andreea Ioni\u021b\u0103, Ana Kun, Bogdan Matei, Teo Papadopol, Gavril Pop, Ioana Terhe\u0219 \u0219i Mihai Toth<\/p>\n
Art Encounters Foundation presents IF A STORY IS PRESENT, the first exhibition in Romania dedicated to internationally renowned Macedonian artists Yane Calovski and Hristina Ivanoska, who live and work in Skopje and Berlin. If a story is present is curated by Diana Marincu and it includes a selection of recent works, both individual and collaborative, as well as a newly produced collective installation with a group of young and emerging artists based in Timi\u0219oara, participating in the mentorship organized between May and July this year: Loredana Ilie, Andreea Ioni\u021b\u0103, Ana Kun, Bogdan Matei, Teo Papadopol, Gavril Pop, Ioana Terhe\u0219, and Mihai Toth.<\/p>\n
IF A STORY IS PRESENT is built around a nucleus of works developed over the last five years concerning the Open Form theory, one of the most experimental approaches to art and architecture conceived by Polish architect Oskar Hansen. Flexibility, collective participation, the activation of a \u201cperceptive background,\u201d and individual expression are a few of the elements of the conceptual and pedagogical guidelines that he put forward. Calovski and Ivanoska take these theoretical principles further and, through visual and text-based exercises, focus on society\u2019s invisible structure and propose an extension of the institutional and artistic framework towards a view of the city and individuals as various elements in a composition. This view can create an elastic, non-hierarchical territory offering several conceptual directions for the exhibition by exploring concepts of decentralization of ideas through formal and chromatic typographical language.<\/p>\n
Hansen\u2019s unrealized museum proposal for Skopje, with multiple patterns of folding and expansion, is another solid conceptual frame of reference. On the other hand, the exhibition presents works that approach manual labor and the forms of comprehending, interpreting, and representing processes of narration. However, the narrative strategies are activated within the politics of memory and oblivion, fragmented histories and fictional, imaginary spaces.<\/p>\n
This project is part of the Timi\u0219oara 2023 \u2013 European Capital of Culture Programme and is financed by the Timi\u0219oara Municipality through the City of Timi\u0219oara Centre for Projects.<\/p>\n
Financer: The Administration of the National Cultural Fund, the City of Timi\u0219oara Centre for Projects<\/p>\n
Sponsors: ISHO, Thesaurus, Illy<\/p>\n
Media partners: TVR Timi\u0219oara, Radio Romania Cultural, RFI Romania, Observator Cultural, Zeppelin, Modernism, ARTA Magazine, The Institute, Propagarta, StudentFest<\/p>\n
Graphic design: Karina Isar<\/p>\n
This exhibition is part of ART-UP, a cultural project that has been co-financed by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of The Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for the way in which the project\u2019s results can be used. These aspects fall wholly under the responsibility of the grant beneficiary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3516,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"bienala":[],"class_list":["post-3534","expozitie","type-expozitie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expozitie\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expozitie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/expozitie"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bienala","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bienala?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}