[Nettime-ro] perjovschis at Nasher Art Museum

[perjovschi dan <perjovschi@yahoo.com>]

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University will
present the first retrospective of the work of
Romanian artists Dan and Lia Perjovschi from Aug. 23
through Jan. 6, 2008.??
?States of Mind: Dan and Lia Perjovschi? includes
paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, videos,
installations and conceptual art from 1980 to the
present, as well as newly commissioned works.??The
show comes 10 years after Duke hosted the Perjovschis?
first two-person exhibition in the United States. This
summer, Dan Perjovschi?s first solo show in the United
States is taking place at the Museum of Modern Art in
New York, where he created large-scale drawings
covering a wall of MoMA?s central atrium, part of the
?Projects? series.
At the Nasher Museum, he will create drawings on the
exterior windows during the week of Aug. 20. Lia
Perjovschi will create an installation on an interior
wall.???Dan and Lia are exciting artists whose work is
complex, both artistically and intellectually -- but
also broadly engaging,? said Kimerly Rorschach, the
Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Director of the Nasher
Museum. ?I am thrilled that the Nasher Museum is
presenting an in-depth look at their work. The timing
is perfect, coinciding with public excitement over
Dan?s recent commissions in New York and Venice.?
Dan and Lia Perjovschi were both born in 1961 in
Sibiu, Romania, and were educated in the Romanian
socialist system. Both artists belong to the first
avant-garde generation following the 1989 Romanian
Revolution.??Dan Perjovschi is known for humorous
large-scale drawing installations commenting on
current events, cultural paradoxes, and art world
institutions and practices. He is the foremost artist
of satirical political drawing in Romania. He has
exhibited widely throughout Europe, with recent shows
at Museum Ludwig in Cologne (2005), Portikus in
Frankfurt am Main (2006) and a project at the Tate
Modern in London (2006). In 1999, he represented
Romania at the 48th Venice Biennale. His work is
included in both the Arsenale and the Italian
Pavillion in the current Venice Biennale.??Lia
Perjovschi?s international reputation emerged from her
performances between 1988 and 2005. Today she works as
a conceptual artist analyzing cultural and historical
formations through ?Contemporary Art Archive Center
for Art Analysis,? an archive she created that is
devoted to the scrutiny of the production of aesthetic
and social forms of knowledge. Under the rubric of
this archive, Lia performs conceptual/pedagogical
actions in ?workshops,? a mode of art-making related
to public education at the nexus of art practice, art
institutions, and the construction and analysis of
history.???States of Mind? is curated by Kristine
Stiles, a professor of contemporary art in Duke?s
Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.
Stiles is the foremost scholar on the Perjovschis?
work and has been writing about them since 1993. At
her invitation, the Perjovschis taught for a semester
in the Duke art department in 1997.
Stiles earned a J. William Fulbright fellowship to
Romania and a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship for her
work on documentary photography of the nuclear age.
She has published, taught and lectured internationally
on ?cultures of trauma,? a term she coined in 1993 to
theorize visual representations of trauma in society,
particularly in Romania.
?States of Mind? will be complemented by programs at
the Nasher Museum that include an opening event with
appearances by the artists on Aug. 29, a symposium
titled ?Perspectives on Romanian Culture: Then and
Now? on Aug. 30, a Family Day event, film series,
teacher workshop, and other educational and public
programming.??The exhibition is accompanied by a
238-page catalogue with 375 color and black-and-white
illustrations, distributed by Duke University Press.
Stiles edited the book, which includes essays by
Stiles; Romanian-American poet, author and National
Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu; and Marius
Babias, a Romanian political scientist. The book
includes interviews by Roxana Marcoci,
Romanian-American curator of photography at MoMA, and
by Stiles.?
The exhibition and related programs are sponsored in
part by the Duke University Provost's Common Fund,
Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and Duke University's
Office of the President. Additional program support
was provided by the Romanian Cultural Institute, New
York, N.Y., and the Department of Art, Art History &
Visual Studies and the Visual Studies Initiative, Duke
University.
For more information, contact: Wendy Hower Livingston
| (919) 684-3314 | wendyhower@duke.edu
http://www.nasher.duke.edu/



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