Posts Tagged ‘Nicolae Comanescu’

INTERSECTIONS // Berlin-Bucharest Exchange: Sub-styles – DIY Art Spaces, Interdisciplinarity and Hybrids

Article by Marta Jecu – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015.

Interdisciplinarity is not just about combining methodologies, but also about the capacity to navigate around them, to handle a hybrid-situation that could give birth to a new creative medium. Looking back on the art of the 20th century’s last decades, it becomes evident that, in order to have certain micro-climates or contexts that can generate something new, there has always been a dominant situation of incompatibilities, social or political rifts, and disparities….[read on…]

INTERSECTIONS // Berlin-Bucharest Exchange: Post-painting – Mimetic Consumerism and the Poetics of Capitalist Realism in Romania

Article by Valentina Iancu – in Bucharest; Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015.

The death of painting, which was emphatically announced after 1935 and has been repeatedly acclaimed in modernism, post-modernism, while still debated in some artistic mediums, is becoming an actual problem in the new capitalist cultural geographies of Eastern Europe. Being an instrument of communist propaganda, painting is mistrusted by the avidly reformed artistic community of the 90s…[read on…]