[Nettime-ro] Vernisajul expozitiei Cristina David: Intre totalul intamplarilor din viata mea si suma lucrarilor mele nu exista o functie bijectiva

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Cristina David

Intre totalul intamplarilor din viata mea si suma lucrarilor mele nu exista o functie bijectiva

20.01 - 12.03.2016
Vernisaj: 20.01.2016, 7 pm

Va invitam miercuri, 20 ianuarie 2016, 7 pm, la vernisajul expozitiei: Intre totalul intamplarilor din viata mea si suma lucrarilor mele nu exista o functie bijectiva, cea de-a doua expozitie personala a Cristinei David la Galeria Ivan. Intre orele 7-9 pm se va desfasura performance-ul Antrenament.

In matematica, o functie este bijectiva daca este atat injectiva cat si surjectiva. Poate fi descrisa prin formula: f : A →B este bijectiva ⇔ ∀ y ∈ B, ∃! x ∈ A a.î. f(x) = y, ceea ce inseamna ca fiecare element din multimea B are un corespondent unic in multimea A, si viceversa.

Functia este o relatie ce conecteaza multimi de elemente. Se iau spre exemplu doua multimi infinite in plan abstract, finite la nivel individual, in timp si spatiu: arta si viata unui artist. Atat cei din interiorul domeniului artistic (artistii insisi, criticii, istoricii sau teoreticienii de arta), cat si cei din afara sa (publicul) au propus de-a lungul timpului functii ce se pot stabili intre aceste doua multimi, in forma unor modele generale sau in variante individualizate de la caz la caz. In prezent domeniul de definitie si codomeniul acestei functii tind sa se suprapuna si sa se confunde, dar ele s-au situat fie in relatii de cauzalitate - atunci cand publicul cu tendinte de voyeur sau exegetii unui artist au extras date biografice semnificative si le-au transformat in mitologii artistice - fie intr-o stare de colaborare si interdependenta, atunci cand avangardele si neoavangardele secolului XX au incercat sa elimine limitele dintre viata si arta si sa genereze doar functii bijective intre elementele celor doua campuri (sau sa dinamiteze multimile, sistemul si matematica lor laolalta).

In aceasta expozitie Cristina David investigheaza si isi testeaza totodata propria varianta de explicitare a functiei dintre practica artistica si existenta sa personala. Desi lucreaza asumat cu elemente extrase din multimea intamplarilor recente din viata sa, trecute prin filtrul discernamantului si gestului artistic, suma lucrarilor Cristinei nu se reduce la aceste corespondente, ci include solutii noi si de sine-statatoare. Matematica, umorul sau (auto)ironia, textul si instalatiile site-specific sunt principalele intrumente folosite in aceasta cercetare. Incursiunea in functia rezultata necesita efort in avansul printre statistici, antrenamente, exercitii de caligrafie, scrisori video si un roman cu (un alt) final fericit. 

Cristina David (n. 1979) lucreaza cu fotografie, video si text intr-o practica atenta la documentarea si exprimarea viziunii personale asupra lumii, a trecerii timpului sau a relatiilor ce se stabilesc intre diverse entitati si contexte. Proiectele sale imbina performance, gesturi si instalatii conceptuale, prezentate cu umor sau ironie. Cu studii de licenta in cadrul departamentului de Foto-Video al Universitatii Nationale de Arte din Bucuresti si de master la Academia de Arta din Bergen, Norvegia, Cristina David a participat in rezidente artistice (Seydisfjordur, Islanda, 2015, Viena, 2014, Santa Monica, SUA, 2012, Bratislava, 2011) si a luat parte in expozitii precum The School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial (2015), Few Were Happy with their Condition: Video and Photography in Romania, Kunsthalle Winterthur (2015), What about (y)our Memory?, 2014 și Good Girls. Memory, Desire, Power (2013), Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana, Bucuresti, Involuntary Memory, The University of California Irvine University Art Galley/Room, Los Angeles, SUA (2013), Global fara globalizare: de la matematica pana in China, Salonul de proiecte, Bucuresti (2012), Dump Time. For a Practice of Horizontality, Shedhalle, Zurich (2011), in Manifesta8, Murcia, Spania (2010), Blind Date, Muzeul de Arta Contemporana din Finlanda, Helsinki (2006). In 2011 a fost laureata a Henkel Art Award, iar in 2006 a castigat primul loc al festivalului Alternative Film/Video, Belgrad. Traieste si lucreaza in Bucuresti.

Multumiri speciale: Stefan David, Michael Ehn, Kwadwo Gyan, Mikkel Rosengaard, Mariana Szoboszlay, tranzit.ro/Iasi.
Expozitia poate fi vizitata pana pe 12 martie 2016, de miercuri pana sambata intre orele 11-19, iar duminica si luni pe baza de programare.

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Cristina David

Between the total of facts in my life and the sum of my works doesn’t exist a bijective function

20.01 - 12.03.2016
Opening: 20.01.2016, 7 pm

We invite you on Wednesday 20th January 2016, 7 pm, to the opening of the exhibition: Between the total of facts in my life and the sum of my works doesn’t exist a bijective function, Cristina David’s second solo show at Ivan Gallery. Between 7-9 pm the Workout performance will take place.

In mathematics, a function is bijective if it’s at the same time injective and surjective. It can be described by the formula: f : A →B is bijective ⇔ ∀ y ∈ B, ∃! x ∈ A so that f(x) = y, which means that each element from set B has an unique correspondent in set A, and vice-versa.

The function is a relationship that connects sets of elements. For example, one takes two sets, infinite on an abstract level, but finite in time and space on an individual one: the art and life of an artist. Those inside the artistic field (the artists themselves, the art critics, historians or theorists) as well as those outside it (the public) have imagined throughout time functions that can be established between these two sets, as general frames or individualised versions from case to case. At present, this function’s domain and codomain tend to overlap and equal one another, but they have been engaged in causal relationships - when the voyeur public or some artist’s exegete extracted significant biographical data and turned it into artistic mythologies - or in a state of collaboration and interdependence, when 20th century’s avant-gardes or neoavant-gardes tried to remove the limits between art and life and generate only bijective functions for the two fields’ elements (or to blow up the sets, the system and their mathematics altogether).

Inside this exhibition Cristina David investigates and tests her own version for the explicit function between artistic practice and personal existence. Though consciously working with elements extracted from recent events in her life, passed through the filter of the artistic act and judgement, the sum of Cristina’s works does not confine to these connections, but includes new and independent solutions. Mathematics, humour or (self)irony, text and site-specific installations are the main tools engaged in this research. The inroad in the resulting function requires effort in the advancement through statistics, trainings, calligraphy exercises, video letters and a novel with (another) happy ending.

Cristina David’s (b. 1979) artistic practice employs text, photography and video as main means of expression and documenting the artist’s personal and peculiar view on the world, herself and the passing of time. Her projects bring forth more than often performance, gestures and installations with a playful and ironic, overall conceptual twist. With a BFA at the Photo-Video Department from the National University of Arts in Bucharest and a MFA from the Art Academy Of Bergen, Norway, Cristina David was engaged in various artistic residencies, in Seydisfjordur, Iceland (2015), Vienna, Austria (2014), Santa Monica, California (2012), Bratislava, Slovakia (2011), etc. Her works have been shown in exhibitions such as The School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial 2015, Few Were Happy with their Condition: Video and Photography in Romania, Kunsthalle Winterthur (2015), What about (y)our Memory? (2014) and Good Girls. Memory, Desire, Power (2013), The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Involuntary Memory, The University of California Irvine University Art Galley/Room, Los Angeles, USA (2013), Global without Globalisation: From Mathematics to China, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest (2012), Dump Time. For a Practice of Horizontality, Shedhalle, Zurich (2011), in Manifesta8, Murcia, Cartagena (2010), Blind Date, Museum of Contemporary Art of Finland, Helsinki (2006). She was awarded the Henkel Art Award, Romania, in 2011 and won the First Prize at the Alternative Film/Video 2006, Belgrade. Cristina David lives and works in Bucharest, Romania.

Special thanks: Stefan David, Michael Ehn, Kwadwo Gyan, Mikkel Rosengaard, Mariana Szoboszlay, tranzit.ro/Iasi.

The exhibition can be visited until 12 March 2016, Wednesday-Saturday, 11-19, Sunday and Monday by appointment.


Ivan Gallery

Dimitrie Grecescu 13, 
Bucharest, 050598
Tel +40214100139
info@ivangallery.com
www.ivangallery.com


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