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celebrate the resistance in culture…

Thursday, February 18

… with the Comrades Of Time exhibition (PAVILION UNICREDIT, Sos. Nicolae Titulescu nr. 1, orele 19:00) and with the launching of PAVILION #14 – journal for politics and culture. The evening surprise: you are invited to  Glam Rock / Glitter Punk Party @ CONTROL (Str. Academiei nr.19 – Pasajul Victoriei) starting 22.30. This party celebrates 10 years of PAVILION, BUCHAREST BIENNALE and PAVILION UNICREDIT’ s existence. It’s been 10 years of hard work, hard times and hundreds of events, lectures, exhibitions, and publications.
FREE ENTRANCE AFTER 22.30

www.pavilionjournal.ro / www.pavilionunicredit.ro / www.bucharestbiennale.org

Having been awarded the Golden Lion for Best Young Artist at the Venice Biennale in 2005, Regina José Galindo uses performance and her own body as main devices in the artistic process. Through a kind of re-enactment, the artist substitutes herself to the weak and the humble, to the tortured and the oppressed, staging limit situation. Her own delicate, feminine body is mistreated, in a kind of “self-exposure” and unselfishly substituting herself to various traumas inflicted upon other human beings in oppressive political regimes. Regina José Galindo’s discourse thus relates to other works in the activist area and gender issues with reference to ancestral shamanic myths and exorcising gestures such as Ana Mendieta’s and Sigalit Landau’s, to the rituals of resistance in Tania Bruguera’s and Teresa Margolles’ work: impressive installations over death and the excluded of society.

The Polish artist Wojciech Wilczyk (b.1961, Krakow), member of the Polish Photograph Artists Union, takes pictures as of 1988. During the exhibition, called “Life after life”, can be seen 40 photographs, as well as a video. The photographs catch bodies of cars (after being used) changed into advertising panels, flowerbeds and other design elements. The presentation of such items not exactly esthetic revolutionizes the quotidian, shocks through the absurdity of their presence in the reality space.

The exhibition prepared by the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery presents more than thirty most appealing projects done in Prague after 1990. The exhibition also focuses on the historical context. Beside well known architectural icons like the Dancing House designed by Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunic, located by the banks of the River Vltava, which is perhaps the most striking, and most famous, modern building in the Czech capital, the exhibition also shows buildings or projects, which are less known, but unique as well.

contemporary glas design exhibition
1-14 November / UNAgaleria

Michal Fronek together with Jan Nemecek forms the head of the Design studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design Prague. They decided to engage students from the studio in their activities of glass production. Five of their students took the opportunity to work for three weeks at the beautiful Moravian-Slovakian border, where the glass workshop Kvetna produces superior handmade glassware that is traditionally known for its exclusive quality.