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Visual
arts after the
90’s, Iuliana Varodi and Morisena
"Targu-Mures-
born Iuliana Varodi is back (...) with a certain kind of
social activism and the belief that the connections between people that
share passions and interests can create a better framework for everyday
life. From her travels through India, she returned with many
photopraphs and especially memories and experiences of another human
temperature that constituted the starting point and the substance for
several exhibitions of photography at Targu-Mures and at The Art Museum
in Cluj – as well as for a volume of poetry in Romanian.
During
Fata Morgana, the exhibition in Cluj, Iuliana Varodi shared a
compressed diary of her encounter with India. She took part with photos
in the itinerant exhibition “24 hours at home in
Europe”,
which was presented in a couple of European countries. (...) Travelling
is an art, we used to say. Nowadays, art is travelling, at least since
Andrei Cadere’s wanderings in the 70-ies. While Andrei
Cadere’s project was individual, today’s projects
have a
programatic comunitary dimension. Contemporary nomadism
doesn’t
have the exotic in its seeking expectations, although this may not be
totally absent in the case of a westerner who has come to Transylvania.
The spirit of improvisation and spontaneity, which does not mean lack
of coherence, a keen observation and the capacity to generate meaning
are stongly present in the video produced by the participants. The ten
young artists (participants at 'Hitchhiking to Transylvania' the first
project at morisena) have crossed a great part of Europe and Romania in
order to meet each other in Sangeorgiu de Mures, to spend some time
together in an unknown place, everyone bringing with themselves their
story and the experience of the journey, their own personal view on
otherness, tender or harsher, narrated on a lyrical or ironical, funny
or dramatic tone, in a laconic or descriptive manner".
by
art
historian Ioana Vlasiu >> read full text in Ziarul de Duminica of Ziarul Financiar (Romanian)
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