Transitions 1. Balkans: Lecture "From the Museum wall to the Facebook wall"

Romania

Dan Perjovschi (b. 1961) was academically trained as a painter during the Communism system. He used drawing to brake free of the strict education. After the collapse of Dictatorship he gradually moved from drawing on paper to drawing directly on the walls of the art institution. After “The project” at Venice Biennial 1999 when his art become world known he developed a practice of time specific drawing installations in solo projects at Moma New York, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Moderna Museet, Macro Roma, Ludwig Museum Cologne and participated at Venice, Istanbul, Lyon, Sydney and Moscow Biennial. His migratory, temporary and radical practice filled the walls of art institutions for more than a decade. After 2011 he become interested in activist movements across the world and found Social media as one space to get close and support such movements. In 2013 with the occasion of ecological mass demonstrations in Romania his drawings were downloaded by people who went protest with them in Bucharest and in big capitals and cities across the world.

The talk will show the path from still life to protest drawing and the stations in between.