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Program: Loose Associations

Presentation / Vlad Nancă (Romania, guest artist)

May 13, 2009 at 7 pm.

Loose associations, contemporary art practices on the international scene today is the project dealing with critical research on current, international art practices and potentials of their wider reception. It has been running in Zagreb since 2007.

This year’s program has a part of Eastern Europe in focus. By adopting documentary view of the passenger, who is visiting this area, trying to record at least some of the stories from these trips, we intend to sketch a map of possible movements to the east, after our compass, previously, almost as a rule, has been pointing to the west.

Processes of transformation in the space colloquially marked as a postsocialist Europe are far from uniform. The formerly communist and socialist countries each experienced this epoch in different ways and thus also produced very divergent cultural and art scenes.

In several editions, presentations and gallery projects, we will try to bring closer contemporary artistic production from Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Romania.

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The lines of movement: Bucharest

Guest artist:  Vlad Nanca

Vlad Nancă (Bucharest, 1979.) is one of the key actors of the Romanian art scene. His work is related to the search for the new modes of collectiveness versus strictly individualized artistic production, with the purpose of collective reflection upon current social circumstances, the production of art, its meaning and distribution channels. 

As an artist, Nancă reacts to drastic changes in the recent history of Romania, and their effects on everyday life, and the keyword is- documentation. Nanca’s photography takes over the role of recording the speed of change, in the same time creating new meanings. 
His other works such as “Original Adidas” (a couple of pork leg with typical Adidas stripes) or “Dacia-30 years of social history” have been strong and above all humorous, “allegory of the mental and economic state of an entire country.” 

Vlad Nancă will speak about his work, “Romanian Stencil Archive” and Bucharest today.

More about artist: HERE 

The Loose Association project is realized by Ivana Meštrov and Nataša Bodrožić in collaboration with Gallery PM/Croatian Visual Artists Association.

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