Ciprian Mureșan belongs to the generation of the post-Communist regime and is, in a post-conceptual manner, preoccupied with the historical and political fallout for his country, Romania.Mureșan appropriates historical, social and cultural references (essentially artistic, literary and cinematographic), which he re-contextualizes. He analyses the mechanisms of cultural diffusion; the ambivalent, if not contrary relationships between memories of recent history and those of actual experience, in addition to the relationships between political power, religious power, and civil society. His works allude to iconic works from the history of modernity, while addressing questions ranging from the jolts of contemporary society and the fall of utopias to the impact of new technologies on our visual culture, by way of the fetishization of cartoons and the relationship of civil society to different forms of power. He deals with history, religion and art using simple gestures and methods from popular culture with the same quasi-expiatory manner, while restoring the importance of personal experience and expression.
(Florence Derieux FRAC Champagne-Ardenne)
Ciprian Mureşan critically approaches in his artistic practice subjects relevant to contemporary culture, such as recent history and the art history canon, through works that reflect the sometimes absurd breaks between East and West. Using video, drawing, object, the artist follows at the same time the relation between what a work shows and hides, as well as the problem of the authorship and „originality” of an artistic product.
(Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest)
Ciprian Mureșan (b.1977) lives and works in Cluj; from 2005 editor of IDEA art + society magazine. In 2014 he was guest professor at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. His recent personal exhibitions include: Obstacle Racing, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (2014), Stage and Twist (with Anna Molska), Tate Modern, London (2012), Recycled Playground, on view successively at FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (2011), Centre d'art contemporaine, Geneva (2012), and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2013), n.b.k. - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2010). Selected group exhibitions: Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Sounds Like Silence, Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund; The Freedom of Sound. John Cage behind the Iron Curtain, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2012), Les Promesses du passé, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris (2010); The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York; The Seductiveness of the Interval, Romanian Pavilion, the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009).
Curator: Krisztina Szipőcs
The exhibition is on view between January 16, 2015 – March 22, 2015.
