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[Nettime-ro] Plan B Cluj - Anca Munteanu Rimnic



Galeria Plan B  
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Anca Munteanu RimnicÂ
Ugly Show for Blind
People
Opening: 4 October,Â19 â 21hÂ
4 October â
3 November 2013Â

Galeria Plan B Cluj

Fabrica de Pensule
str. Henri Barbusse
59â61
400616 Cluj, Romania
www.plan-b.ro
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Galeria Plan B is pleased to invite you on Friday, the 4th of October, to
the opening of the solo exhibition Ugly Show for Blind People of
Anca Munteanu Rimnic, Romanian born artist living in
Germany.Â

Sol LeWitt wrote in 1967 that conceptual art depended
on an intuitive process whereby an idea became a machine that makes the art.
At the same time the logic behind this process is always reframed by its
aesthetic materialization, and paradoxical situations occur when a logical
idea from a conceptual standpoint is visually translated in an uncanny or
illogical shape. Anca Munteanu Rimnic creates objects, films and
installations in which she inverts this structure that travels the distance
between the idea and the form. The situation in which the formal/aesthetic
coherence is disturbed by the conceptual process can be read as a strong
commitment of the artist to make art, to perceive what surrounds her through
the filter of the criteria applicable to art and to invest the artistic
gesture with a power which goes beyond the idea or the concept. The
substance of her works is generated by the image and only afterwords backed
by the discursive meaning. Starting from here, Anca Munteanu Rimnic relies
both on the direct relation between viewer and work, as well as on the
meanings of the space where this meeting takes place. Through ready-made and
appropriation she hijacks the function of an object in order to circumscribe
it in another emotional and esthetic context. All the elements which guide
the transition from object/art to idea/concept sit on an axis connecting
flawlessness and failure, expectations and reality, continuity and
rupture.
The exhibition at Plan B Cluj proposes an open stage on which
the shape and the meaning of the objects created by the artist can generate
their own context. This framing can be an emotional, abstract or absurd
one.
An object dominating the exhibition space, Wild Worses,
immediately attracts the eye through the way in which it delimits its power
scope. Hanging from the ceiling, this object proves to be absurd, devoid of
functionality or disproportionate, if looked at closely. It is a harness in
a size exceeding the natural stature of a horse, rather seeming more
appropriate for a car. Having been executed by a craftsman specialized in
leather, Wild Worses integrates the need of the artist to critically engage
ideas of productivity and efficiency active in contemporary society.
The
filmed performances and the objects exhibited were executed in collaboration
with local actors and craftsmen. Each of these works instills the feeling
that beyond the aestheticism of the image or the tactility of the objects
something lingers from the context which generated them and the space where
they were placed. Here one can discover alternative scenarios, additional
motivations and new discourses on art. In consequence, I can say that, in
Anca Munteanu Rimnic's case, it is art which produces ideas and not the
other way round.

The exhibition text was written by Diana
Marincu.Â

Anca Munteanu Rimnic (b. 1974, Bucharest, Romania)
lives and works in Berlin. At the age of six she left with her parents for
Germany. Between 1995 and 2001 she studied fine arts at the Berlin
University of Arts, and between 2004 and 2006 she attended the master
classes led by John Baldessari at UCLA in Los Angeles and by Mike Kelley and
Jack Goldstein at the Art Center in Pasadena. In 2006, Anca Munteanu-Rimnic
received a German Academic Exchange Service fellowship and spent a year in
Japan.Â
Selected Solo Exhibitions: Lament, PSM, Berlin (2013),
Google me not, Galerie Thomas Flor, DÃsseldorf (2010), PSM, Berlin
(2009), Exhibition, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin (2008).
Selected Group
Exhibitions: Good Girls, curated by Bojana Pejic, MNAC (National Museum of
Contemporary Art), Bucharest; Anca Munteanu Rimnic & Delia Popa, Salonul
de Proiecte, Bucharest (2013), 4th Moscow Biennale, Dada Moscow, Cabaret
Voltaire, Moscow; ArteBA, Buenos Aires; The Activity of Sound, curated by
Florian Christopher Seedorf, Grieder Contemporary, Berlin; Responding to the
Moon, curated by ÃvÃl Durmusoglu, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
(2011), Romanian Cultural Resolution, Club Electro Putere Craiova, RO; An
Image instead of a Title, curated by Mihnea Mircan, Romanian Cultural
Resolution, Spinnerei Leipzig; ENDLESS BEGINNING, PSM, Berlin (2010),
Zeigen, Kunsthalle, Berlin; Nature, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin (2009), Hidden
Treasures, curated by Oliver Baurhenn, General Public Berlin (2008), Gruppe
1, curated by Darren Bader, Gavin Brown Gallery, Passerby, New York; Gruppe
2, curated by Darren Bader, Bader, Mandrake gallery, Los Angeles (2006), Put
It In Your Mouth / Iâll See You On The Dark Side Of The Prune,
Rivington Arms Gallery, New York; Imaginary Is Potential, Sparwasser Berlin
(2004).


This exhibition was realized with the support of
Deutsches Kulturzentrum Klausenburg.


Galeria Plan B moved to the
ground floor of The Paintbrush Factory (Fabrica de
Pensule).Â

For more information, please contact the gallery at
contact@plan-b.ro and +40.740.658555; +40.723.662345.ÂThe gallery can
be visited by appointment.


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Galeria Plan B
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Romania:
Str. Henri
Barbusse 59-61
400616 Cluj
Tel +40.740.658555
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Potsdamer Strasse 77-87
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