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MNAC, Izvor St. 2-4, wing E4, Bucharest, Romania / Entrance from Calea
13 Septembrie
Events
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Inspire par nature
24.06 - 18.07.2010
Opening 25.06.2010, 19h30
With the support of the French Cultural Institute
Olga Kisseleva: Double Life
Video installation & workshop
Tuesday, 08.06.2010, 16h00 Project presentation / meeting with the participants
Wednesday, 09.06.2010, 19h00 Opening
Thursday, 17.06.2010 Lecture and workshop's results presenation
Olga Kisseleva - Double Life
All individuals divide their lives into a professional activity performed in order to survive, and their true skills that are unrelated to work. The diptychs show the schizophrenic everyday lives of people swinging between necessity and passion, between a world of work and a domestic world: an art history student who works in a fast food restaurant, an artist on a supermarket check-out, a committed environmentalist who delivers freebies. Their lives provide concrete evidence of the threat of alienation at work because of the obligation to do a job that has not been freely chosen. No way out? Is there a cut off between what we’d like to do and what we have to do? Nonetheless, these people do manage odd moments of self-expression: witness the example of the young artist who uses the cash register bills for his own artistic purposes. How does society identify the characters in ma double vie? An artist who does a job or a worker who creates works of art on the side? What value is given to such ‘parallel’ activities? Olga Kisseleva is up front in demonstrating how difficult it is to be in such a position, yet also reveals an indomitable creative force.
Co-authors of Bucharest episode:
Luiza Alecsandru - My Life in a Museum
Veda Popovici - museum slash Museum
Arnold Sclachter - Being as 'Being lived'
Gabriel Pop - Icon
The films can be seen until 1st of August 2010.
More information about the project
The Double Life project was created in collaboration with the Sorbonne‘s Laboratory of Sociology and Social Sciences.
MNAC partner: BRD Groupe Societe Generale
Sponsors: Hotel Novotel, Murfatlar
Media partners: Igloo, Arhitectura, 24 Fun, rfi, feeder.ro, Cocor Media Channel
Olga Kisseleva is the director of the Art&Science Program at the Faculty of Arts
Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris.
GILI MOCANU. Each of those two moments
31.03 – 27.06.2010
opening: 31st of March, 19h00
Curator: Oana Tanase
MNAC presents the solo exhibition of Gili Mocanu, an exhibition that takes into account two stations of art – the studio and the museum. Together with The Papal Square Meter, a work from the collection of MNAC, two other series of paintings have been selected, as well as the artist’s sketchbooks which are on display for the first time. For Each of the Two Moments, Gili Mocanu has conceived an intervention in the museum’s space that seems to test the force of gravitation embedded in ideas and the plausibility of space drawing.
After exercising figuration and resorting to a beautiful and irreverent artifice, the artist puts to the test our tolerance for abstraction. Repetition and cyclicity, journey and end, the terrestrial and the imponderable, are constant themes of reflection for Gili Mocanu, an artist for whom sincerity and adrenaline are basic ingredients of his artistic and cultural identity. His work is infused with so much nihilism and irony that one can almost hear him saying: “Nothing compares to a good dose of self-loath”.
MNAC partner: BRD Groupe Societe Generale
Sponsors: Hotel Novotel, Murfatlar
Media partners: Igloo, Arhitectura, 24 Fun, rfi, feeder.ro, Cocor Media Channel
Publish it!
23.01 – 3.10.2010
Curator: Marieke van Oudheusde
http://publicasitu.wordpress.com/
The National Museum of Contemporary Art organize in collaboration with Graphic Design Museum, Breda, The Netherlands between 23.01 and 3.10.2010 –“Publish It”– a special program for children in the age between 8 and 14 years old.
‘Publish It' is an attractive learning environment in which the basic principles and functionality of graphic design are explained by understandable examples in combination with active (group) activities.
Children discover exactly what graphic design is. Why are objects around us designed? What can letters and colours tell us? Why is a carton of milk blue and not purple? What do the different types of letters on a film poster say?
Beteween 15.06 - 15.09. 2010 the workshops will be holden every Thursday starting with 11.00 pm upon request.
Tel.: 021 3189137 or by e-mail: irina.radu@mnac.ro, info@mnac.ro.
A project by: GRAPHIC DESIGN MUSEUM, Breda
www.graphicdesignmuseum.com
In association with: De Designpolitie / Studio Laurens van Wieringen
www.designpolitie.nl / www.laurensvanwieringen.nl
With the support of: The Nederlands Embassy from Bucharest
MNAC Partner: BRD - Groupe Société Générale
Media Partners: Igloo, Arhitectura, 24fun, feeder, RFI Romania, Cocor MediaChannel
MNAClab
The aim of the program is to support logistically a variety of projects that can be submitted by visual artists, or by composers, choreographers, performers, programmers and technicians. MNAClab will provide assistance for the realization of complete projects (from initial concept to full production) or for the different phases of a project (research of technical and artistic feasibility of a certain idea, creation of software or hardware, testing of completed works).
MNAClab's equipment allows in this moment to record and document sound works, to operate all the aspects of the digital video postproduction, to realize projects that involve HD video cameras, computers or video projectors.
For the projects that involve the research of different aspects in domains such as augmented reality, scientific visualization, audification, haptics, interface and interaction between humans and machines, auralization, etc., MNAClab can initiate the get-together of interdisciplinary teams, or can mediate the connection with the specialists qualified to offer solutions or to realize them.
MNAClab cannot sustain the projects that contain a commercial aspect or have as an objective the financial profits.
The applications can be sent at any time. They will be selected throughout the year. The selection procedure could suppose meetings with the applicants, interviews, feasibility studies and planning of all the project's aspects (concept, technical details, budget, technical and human resources, timeline and identification of external resources). The selection will be directed both to the concept and to the technical aspects of the project, and it can be realized by MNAC's specialists or by its collaborators.
The application must contain:
Letter of intention and the applicant's contact
Project description and materials relevant to the project's understanding (images, sketches, diagrams, algorithms, etc)
Documenting materials: CV, portfolio, press kit, DVD, url with previous works
Information about the next projects
A self-addressed and stamped enveloped in case of materials return
Materials have to be sent by post: Izvor st. 2-4, 050563, Bucharest
or by e-mail: medialab@mnac.ro
You will get an e-mail notification for receiving of the materials. The answer can be expected in maximum two months. We will try to answer in time for the proposals that are bound to a certain sequence of time imposed by the participation in festivals, conferences and exhibitions.
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