David Crowley explore s Dan and Lia Perjovschi s art in its different contexts. From communist Romania in the 1980s to the white cubes of the international art world today, these artists have maintained a sharply critical and sometimes ironic view of the world in which they live and work. Placing their work in the critical and sardonic tradition of marginalia, Crowley examines the ways in which Dan and Lia Perjovschi draw and write on bodies, on printed matter and on institutions.
Recession ; double wall projects 04 ; [anlässlich der Ausstellung: Double Wall Projects 04. Dan Perjovschi: RECESSION, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, 31. Mai 2008 - 26. April 2009]
Recession ; double wall projects 04 ; [anlässlich der Ausstellung: Double Wall Projects 04. Dan Perjovschi: RECESSION, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, 31. Mai 2008 - 26. April 2009]
The Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi is one of the foremost draughtsmen on the international art scene.For the project Recession (Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, 31 May 2008 - 26 April 2009), which this book records, Perjovschi covered the two large wall spaces of the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst with a dense reference system, executed in white chalk on black ground, and diagramming a huge range of contemporary social, cultural and political phenomena in crude pictograms.This publication traces the project in a diaristic fashion and steers the reader's attention from broad views of the installation to detailed close-up. The fact that Perjovschi's drawings were erased after one year makes Recession an indispensable document.English and German text.
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