RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios Publication launch

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One of the chapters is dedicated to the current cultural, social and political situation in two Moldova regions

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RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios Publication launch will be launched today.

The project publication summarize the sense of interaction between artists and experts involved in the project, as well as the results of investigated and researched aspects that were in focus of contemporary art practice. The publication includes the artist projects and contributions resulted after interdisciplinary workshop, seminars and production sessions. One of the chapters is dedicated to the current cultural, social and political situation in two Moldova regions with texts and contributions by: Sorin Bocancea (political annalist), Flavius Solomon (historian), Igor Casu (historian), Petru Negura (sociologist), Matei Bejenaru (artist/curator) and Stefan Rusu (artist/curator). The other chapter is dedicated to the presentation of curatorial practices and artistic strategies exploring the contexts of some divided (split up) territories by: Catalin Gheorghe (curator, counter theorist), Laura Schleussner/Berlin, Lilia Dragneva (curator), Binna Choi (curator) and contributions by invited visual artists: Bik Van der Pol (Lisbethe Bik and Jos Van der Pol), Iratxe Jaio&Klaas van Gorkum, Tilmann Meyer-Faje, Ilya Rabinovich, Gulsun Karamstafa.
The publication also presents visual art projects and films realized by visual artists from Romania and Republic Moldova: Aurelia Mihai, Dan Acostioaei, Alexandru Grigoras, Lavinia German, Dimitru Oboroc, Violeta Ionita, Tatiana Fiodorova, Vadim Tiganas, Vladimir Us, Denis Bartenev, Maxim Cusmenco, Ghenadie Popescu, Veaceslav Druta, Igor Scerbina, Lucia Macari.
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The RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios project aim was to investigate by juxtaposing the current cultural, social and political situation in two Moldova regions. The joint actions undertaken by the project teams from the KSAK - Centre for Contemporary Art in Chisinau and that from the Vector Association in Iasi are nothing else, but an attempt to create a rapprochement and to understand the nature of the relationship between Romanian and Moldovan societies at the present stage, to analyze the causes and effects of a shared historical and identitary trajectory in the context of divided regions and societies.
RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios is a project organized by the Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau in partnership with VECTOR Association, Iasi
The project was supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute through the CANTEMIR Program, Bucharest; PATTERNS Program /ERSTE Foundation, Vienna and MONDRIAAN Stichting, Amsterdam.
Period: 22 of May, 2009, 18.00
Location: Center for Contemporary Art-KSAK, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova
Address: str. Banulescu Bodoni 5, ap-2, Chisinau

Details about the project:
Centrul pentru Arta Contemporana, Chisinau -[KSA:K]
Address: str. Banulescu Bodoni 5, ap-2,
post code 2000, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
tel/fax: +37322 237272

INVITATION_RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios Publication launch

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RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios Publication launch

Period: 22 of May, 2009, 18.00

Location: Center for Contemporary Art-KSAK, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova

Address: str. Banulescu Bodoni 5, ap-2, Chisinau

The project publication summarizes the sense of interaction between artists and experts involved in the project, as well as the results of investigated and researched aspects that were in focus of contemporary art practice. The publication includes the artist projects and contributions resulted after interdisciplinary workshop, seminars and production sessions. One of the chapters is dedicated to the current cultural, social and political situation in two Moldova regions with texts and contributions by: Sorin Bocancea (political annalist), Flavius Solomon (historian), Igor Casu (historian), Petru Negura (sociologist), Matei Bejenaru (artist/curator) and Stefan Rusu (artist/curator). The other chapter is dedicated to the presentation of curatorial practices and artistic strategies exploring the contexts of some divided (split up) territories by: Catalin Gheorghe (curator, counter theorist), Laura Schleussner/Berlin, Lilia Dragneva (curator), Binna Choi (curator) and contributions by invited visual artists: Bik Van der Pol (Lisbethe Bik and Jos Van der Pol), Iratxe Jaio&Klaas van Gorkum, Tilmann Meyer-Faje, Ilya Rabinovich, Gulsun Karamstafa.

The publication also presents visual art projects and films realized by visual artists from Romania and Republic Moldova: Aurelia Mihai, Dan Acostioaei, Alexandru Grigoras, Lavinia German, Dimitru Oboroc, Violeta Ionita, Tatiana Fiodorova, Vadim Tiganas, Vladimir Us, Vladimir Us, Denis Bartenev, Maxim Cusmenco, Ghenadie Popescu, Veaceslav Druta, Igor Scerbina, Lucia Macari.

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The RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios project aim was to investigate by juxtaposing the current cultural, social and political situation in two Moldova regions. The joint actions undertaken by the project teams from the KSAK - Centre for Contemporary Art in Chisinau and that from the Vector Association in Iasi are nothing else, but an attempt to create a rapprochement and to understand the nature of the relationship between Romanian and Moldovan societies at the present stage, to analyze the causes and effects of a shared historical and identitary trajectory in the context of divided regions and societies.

RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios is a project organized by the Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau in partnership with VECTOR Association, Iasi

The project was supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute through

the CANTEMIR Program, Bucharest; PATTERNS Program /ERSTE Foundation,

Vienna and MONDRIAAN Stichting, Amsterdam.

*Center for Contemporary Art-[KSA:K] is a non-profit, independent institution registered in the year 2000. The new strategy of the Center is the development of cultural forms and art practices, which would reflect the dynamic of the social, political and economic transformations of the society. Center supports the advocacy activities in promoting of cultural policies suitable for the defining and the consolidation of artist position and contemporary art practices in the society. (www.art.md)

* Vector> Association is a non-profit cultural association that provides the production of exhibition and educational programs, research and editing activities, analyzes of the relations between the art practices and visual culture in socio-political context. Vector> supports those practices related to social re-articulation, political consciousness and economical transformation that brings critical analyses that could offer reinterpretations of the attitudes and behavior from the perspective of cultural action. (www.periferic.org)

Stefan Rusu – visual artist/curator

RO-MD/Moldova in two scenarios project curator

Details about the project:

Centrul pentru Arta Contemporana, Chisinau -[KSA:K]
Address: str. Banulescu Bodoni 5, ap-2,

post code 2000, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
tel/fax: +37322 237272

http://www.art.md

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work with jossy

Stedelijk Museum Tentoonstellingen Gemeentelijke Kunstaankopen 2009 - Fotografie
my work with Jossy was not selected, and I thought it is worth to show anyway...

Official Launching of MB ART AGENCY Amsterdam with the international exhibition: ...Expectations

MB Art Agency

has the pleasure to invite you to the opening of the international exhibition

Friday 15th May 2009

....EXPECTATIONS

Emily Bates, Calin Dan , Sagi Groner, Boukje Janssen, Inti Hernandez, Iosif Kiraly, Matthieu Laurette, Alexandra Leykauf, Sanja Medic , Ana Maria Micu, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Catalin Petrisor, Ilya Rabinovich , Victor Racatau, Kathrin Schlegel, Ulay, Vera Weisgerber, Carine Weve, Xing Danwen, Maria Zervou

Curator: Maria Rus Bojan

Opening: Friday 15th May 2009, 18-22 hours

The exhibition is open through 20 June 2009

Exhibition organized on the occasion of the official launching of MB Art Agency , a professional company that aims to present contemporary art in new curatorial formats.

Location: Barbara Strozzilaan 314-316, 1083 HN Amsterdam .

Open 16 May through 20 June 2009Thursday through Sunday from 12 to 18 h. Guided tours by special appointment.

Within walking distance from RAI Station /near Holiday Inn Hotel and Sotheby’s Amsterdam . Metro & train to RAI Station / tram no. 4/ RAI Parking just in front of the exhibition space.

With the kind support of: Dé is Ka & de Verzameling, Project Foundation, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Galerie Hof & Huyser Amsterdam and C-Space Beijing

For more information please contact: info@mbagency.nl // www.mbagency.nl

“…. EXPECTATIONS” is a project born from the desire of 19 artists and a curator to investigate the dynamics of ambiguity in the present.

Taking into account that we perceive history through intervals and that expectation is our way of anticipating the future, this exhibition aims to underline how modernity has reshaped our perception on the present. According to the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, the present can be understood only as an intermediary time; a time that is situated after the moment when the most valuable predictions become true yet before the entire prognosis can be verified though reality.

It is precisely within this indefinite respite – that we call present - that the hope and illusion finds its playground, putting to work our desires and expectations.

Capitalism has succeeded because it has never been a utopia. Its products have become more and more "open”, actually transforming the process of offer and request into a relation of artistic communication: the receiver is the one that gives ”content” to the message, filling it in his own expectations.

Contracting the markets and shaking the very foundation of capitalism, the actual crisis unveils the internal void of our culture. And the fragile domino constructions have collapsed revealing the true dynamics of the global ambitions. Moreover, media’s failure to ensure the right critical climate within society underlines the general incapacity to resist against the „libidinal” capitalist temptations. Not only that critique itself has become a lifestyle, a kind of fashionable activity that is drafted and prepared for sale, but the ethical has been completely subsumed by a consumerist society.

".... Expectations" provides a framework for a set of artistic critiques that are in fact natural reactions and comments to the actual state of things. This exhibition explores the degree in which artists reflect the contradictions of our time in their work. This all takes place in a rather unusual space: an empty office building with its own unfulfilled expectations. Presently the glamorous space meant to host the most successful business initiatives, is now simply an empty place without character nor history.

By squatting this space, the curator assumes in fact the role of a modern invader, conquering new teritories for art and drawing the attention to art as the single force that is able to re-animate and fill these emptied spaces with sense.