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BELGIUM / Gent: .EUROPALIA ROMANIA | Ciprian Mureşan
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday January 19 2020

S.M.A.K.
T : +32 (0)9 323 60 01
Jan Hoetplein 1
9000 Gent
Belgium

https://smak.be/en/exhibition/21877

Ciprian Mureşan belongs to the generation of Romanian artists who witnessed the ideological shifts that occurred after the fall of the Ceauseşcu regime. His work constantly recontextualizes historical anecdotes, iconic artworks, religious rituals and popular forms of culture and, in so doing, disrupts the well-defined (art-)historical narratives.

For this exhibition, taking place from 26.10 until 19.01.2020 the artist has made a scale model of S.M.A.K. for the presentation of a series of so-called palimpsest drawings, which he has based on images from the museum’s new collection catalogue. In a layered way, he reduces all the artworks in the collection to a post-figurative state: a destructive and at the same time creative act that underscores the absurdity of also depicting this history as a linear.

© Modem