Dan Perjovschi
Dan Perjovschi (* 1961 in Sibiu , Romania ) is a Romanian artist and editor of the magazine revista 22 .
biography
education
At the age of 10, Perjovschi's artistic talent was discovered, after which he was sent to a school for gifted children. He obtained his Master of Fine Arts in 1985 at the George Enescu Conservatoire of Fine Arts in Iași . The Romanian education system at that time concentrated on the promotion of special talents in specific schools.
When the political situation in Romania changed, with the liberal ideologies of the 1960s being replaced by Nicolae Ceaușescu's autocracy , Perjovschi realized that painting could not do justice to the spreading social emergency within the Romanian population. The artist began to see drawing, which he had previously used solely to ridicule his teachers, as his medium.
Work as a Romanian artist
One of his first actions as an artist was Red Apples (Engl .: Red Apples) in 1988, for which he wrapped the entire furnishings of his apartment in white paper to transfer drawings and short texts. This should serve as a response to the increasingly repressive censorship in communist Romania. Dan and his wife Lia lived in this condition for almost two weeks and only invited friends to show them the work. At the same time Perjovschi came into contact with a group of alternative artists in Oradea under the name Studio 35 .
In 1991 Perjovschi staged an exhibition that was very similar to the Red Apples . It was called Nameless Mood and was part of the first free art festival, Europe Zone East , in Timișoara . For the event, Perjovschi transformed the caretaker's room into a work of art made from his own drawings, which he also transferred back onto white paper. Perjovschi calls this the starting point of participation in activism , which he and his wife joined in the following years. His desire was to undermine the elitist in art by practicing his art in humility.
In the same year Perjovschi worked in the editorial team of the independent weekly magazine revista 22, which is published in Bucharest . In the early 1990s, this was considered the most intellectually prestigious magazine in Romania. Perjovschi uses his surroundings as inspiration. Current news - both global and local, rumors, sightseeing, jokes, television articles and much more go into the development of his works.
Work as an international artist
In 1994 Perjovschi created two series of drawings: Postcards from America (German: Postcards from America) and Wonderful World (German: wonderful world). Postcards from America is the result of one of his trips across the USA, which he was able to carry out thanks to a grant from the USIA . The works he created during the trip were exhibited at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, including a total of 500 postcard-sized drawings. Wonderful World consists of several DIN A4 modules, each of which is composed of around 20 drawings; similar to a flip book . The work consists of two main complexes: a Romanian part, which contains 30 elements, and an American part, which contains 100 elements. Due to the easy portability, Perjovschi was able to work on his works anywhere, such as B. in hotel rooms or on train journeys.
In 1990 Dan and Lia founded the Contemporary Art Archive with others in Bucharest. Today Lia Perjovschi is mainly responsible for the organization.
The fact that Perjovschi began to transfer his drawings directly onto walls was due to the fact that he wanted to work faster, more mobile and more direct. This gave him more freedom to improvise. He now transfers his drawings with black markers . At the end of each of his exhibitions, however, these are again painted over in the respective wall color. In order to keep his drawings alive, he uses them again and again with different contexts and elements.
In 1995 Perjovschi staged an exhibition entitled Anthroprogramming (German: Human programming) in the Franklin Furnace Gallery in New York. Here he drew a grid on an entire wall of the gallery and placed a human head in each resulting field. In 1999 he covered the floor of the Romanian pavilion at the Venice Biennale with his simple drawings. The exhibition was entitled rEST and this time the visitors were supposed to be the extinguishers of the work of art, as each one of them carried a piece of drawing home with them on the sole of their shoes.
In 1997 Perjovschi was invited again to the USA to teach for one semester at Duke University .
In 2003 he began to cover the walls of the complex of the former coke factory, the Zollverein coking plant in Essen , with drawings. This exhibition was called White Chalks, Dark Issues and spread across the entire first floor of the factory. Perjovschi used white chalk to transfer his drawings onto the musty walls. The work is said to have resembled the work of a prison inmate and took three months to complete.
When Perjovschi also distributed his Urban Drawings in the city of Kassel in 2003 , these were mainly referred to as street graffiti , although Perjovschi denies any relation of his works to graffiti or western comics .
In 1993 Perjovschi had the word Romania tattooed on his left arm in connection with the Europe Zone East festival . In 2003 he had the same removed from the Kunsthalle Fridericanum in Kassel to mark the moment when he became an international artist. Perjovschi staged international exhibitions in Europe and overseas. In 2005 Perjovschi had an exhibition, Naked Drawings , in the Museum Ludwig Cologne and in the summer of 2007 he had another exhibition at MoMA New York under the title WHAT HAPPENED TO US? (German: What happened to us? / What happened to the US?). In his drawings, Perjovschi wants to avoid misunderstandings by reducing them to just a few lines and details. Its main goal is to reflect current events with irony and wit. Since July 2009, Perjovschi has been commenting on a topic from the art and culture industry every month for the art magazine art in his own series of drawings, “Just draw it!”.
For the new building of the National Technical Library in Prague in 2009, Perjovschi was responsible for the artistic interior design. Since then, in addition to new drawings, individual motifs from his MoMa exhibition can be seen there. In 2010 the Kunstverein Ulm showed his drawings, which Perjovschi announced on its website under the title Out of Recession into Depression .
The first award of the Rosa Schapire Art Prize , endowed with 20,000 euros , in 2016 from the Friends of the Kunsthalle e. V. , went to Dan Perjovschi.
In 2016, Perjovschi painted the white walls of the Dortmunder U with black marker across the rooms - across seven floors - with critical and ironic comments on socially relevant events. In 2018 he updated these wall drawings by partially painting over them. According to Perjovschi, this is his highest wall drawing in the world to date. The work was created on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Hartware Medienkunst Verein and is entitled The Hard / er Drawing . It can be seen until April 2019.
Perjovschi lives and works in Bucharest .
literature
- flypaper # 1: Human Natural Disasters . (by Lutz Becker & Uwe Koch) Cologne, 2005.
- Catrin Lorch: Writing on the Wall. Dan Perjovschi's simple drawings and cartoons mount a fleeting assault on the white cube . In: frieze . April 2006, pp. 136-139.
- Karen Rosenberg: Land Grave. Apexart. 291 Church Street, TriBeCa Through Dec. 22 . In: The New York Times . December 7, 2007.
- Roxana Marcoci: WHAT HAPPENED TO US ?. projects 85 dan perjovschi. Interview between Roxana Marcoci and Dan Perjovschi, conducted in conjunction with the exhibition Projects 85: Dan Perjovschi, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 2-August 27, 2007 . In: www.moma.org/projects . April 26, 2007.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ archdaily.com: National Library in Prague Tecnical / projectile Architekti . Retrieved April 23, 2020 (English).
- ^ 1. Rosa Schapire Art Prize for Dan Perjovschi , hamburger-kunsthalle.de, accessed on October 17, 2016
- ↑ https://www.dortmunder-u.de/veranstaltung/dan-perjovschi-harder-drawing
- ↑ https://www.hmkv.de/programm/programmpunkte/2016/Ausstellungen/2016_DAN.php
- ↑ Flypaper on Flypaper.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Perjovschi, Dan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sibiu , Romania |