Artists
Pavel Braila
Stefan Constantinescu
Daniel Knorr
Alexandru Niculescu
Dan Perjovschi
Alexandru Solomon
curator : Adrian Bojenoiu
The concept proposes the partial simulation of the cultural field for recent Romanian history. The title "Fetish factory" is the expository name of this cultural field, allusively appointing the producing mechanisms of the post communist allocution, implicitly involving the contemporary culture.
With the fall of the iron curtain the post communism opens a cultural space of identification and rediscovery of the “democratic”subject divided by communism. Thus the cultural speech of recent history, builds up its` identity and generates the cultural product at the limit pf denying the past and the projection of a democratic future (accepting the new order of the capitalist market), forming aspeech who’s cultural product functions as a fetish. The traumatic past, lived throughout communism and transformed into a speech becomes a cultural product with a shaping effect, comprising an ambivalence based upon acknowledgement and repudiation.
The project foregathers the works of five artists drawing a bead on outlining a contrasting and reflexive vision upon culture; an external glance centred on the utopia, contradictions and cultural solutions supplied by recent history.
The “Fetish Factory” project is part of the “Romanian Cultural Resolution” event, produced by the Center for Contemporary Culture Club Electro Putere Craiova and the Romanian Cultural Institute Berlin and presented on 1st of May – 1st of June 2010 in Spinnerei Werkschau, Leipzig.
Programme:
Friday 18th June
6 p.m vernisaje
7 p.m film projection: „Kapitalism – our improved formula“ 80 minutes, 2010 Director: Alexandru Solomon
Saturday 19 th June
6 p.m film projection: „My beautiful Dacia“ 60 minutes, 2009 Director: Stefan Constantinescu & Julio Soto
June 2010
