IOANA NEMES
EXPENSIVE FIASCO / CHEAP SUCCESS
Opening Thursday 2nd of September, 7pm
2nd September – 2nd October 2010
curator: Alina Serban
Event organized within the framework of 1990-2010
The title of the exhibition EXPENSIVE FIASCO / CHEAP SUCCESS is given by the homonym work, representing the place Ioana Nemes is occupying at the present time in the Artfacts.Net™ top. The international selection of the artists on this well known online portal in based on the index of attention, term belonging to the Viennese researcher Georg Franck.
EXPENSIVE FIASCO / CHEAP SUCCESS engages in the examination of the contemporary artistic space from the perspective of the strategies that influence the artist’s success or failure within the art system. The discussion that Ioana Nemes’s project opens up is tackling, on the one hand, the matter of the self-positioning of the Romanian artist in the international artistic context and that of the adaptation of her/his art to the market mechanisms. On the other hand, her discourse is headed towards the Romanian public sphere, identifying some of the lines of conflict that appear within the local institutional practices and cultural policies.
1990-2010 consists in a series of exhibitions whose analytic-discursive approach is pursuing to make available to the public a subjective x-ray of the present condition of the Romanian art scene and the manner it has (re)presented itself in this interval.
Released in April with the chapter Dan Perjovschi S.A.*, the 1990-2010 cycle invests in an analysis of the set of practices and discourses articulated by the Romanian art scene in the last 20 years, in a critical exercise of reflection upon the art institutional apparatus, upon the intrinsic logic of the art system. 1990-2010 detaches from the totalizing perspective of the group exhibition, choosing instead the specificity of some individual projects, grouped around certain stories and documents.
The projects, generated by active players of the Romanian art scene, artists from different generations, highlight the continuity and discontinuity lines of a local cultural behavior, identify structures of resistance and formulate counter-histories to those currently in circulation. The subjective experience engaged by each of these chapters is depicting a necessary and open process of re-examination of the path and principles around which art scene agglutinates, opening new opportunities to commit and to position, to filter some priorities, urgencies and necessities.
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