Conferences
Dan Perjovschi: I walk around the world drawing it!
On Sunday, April 10th2011, Dan Perjovschi will hold a lecturecalled I walk around the world drawing it! in the Black Box of the NTB
About the conference
Dan Perjovschi is a graphicdesigner, performance author and illustrator for Revista22, and he can be considered an accomplished artist. He won numerousscholarships, fellowships and grants for art. He draws and exhibits, combiningdrawing and graffiti into works executed directly on the walls of the museumsand contemporary art centres worldwide. His drawings comment on political,social and cultural issues, influenced by the history, traditions and cultureof the exhibiting places. He received George Maciunas Prize in 2004 and Henkel CEEPrize for Contemporary Drawing in 2002, in Vienna. In fact, he does what he has always wanted: he goes through the world drawingit!
His lecture, entitled I walk around the world drawing it! andaccompanied by images, will mark 25 years of art and attitude from the Communistcensorship to the art domain aberrations. "Topics to be reached are: the weaknessof the current art scene, underfinanced, ridiculed (pink pony) and the onlycontemporary art museum trapped in Parliament," announces the artist, inthe prologue of the NTB lecture, truly disappointed at this arc over time "in the 90s we were talkingabout freedom, now we talk about money."
AboutDan Perjovschi
Dan Perjovschi is a Romanian artistwho lives in Bucharest and Sibiu, and exhibits in some of the most important museums and art exhibitions inthe world.
He was born in 1961, in Sibiu.
He attended the art high school in Sibiuand the Art Academyin Iasi.
He won numerous scholarships, fellowships and grantsfor art.
He exhibits his works around the world. Dan Perjovskidecorated the walls of famous museums such asthe Tate Modern in London and MoMa in New York and exhibited at Macro Roma, Ludwig Köln,Pompidou Paris, Biennale in Venice,Istanbul, Lyon and Moscow.
He received George Maciunas Prize in 2004 and HenkelCEE Prize for Contemporary Drawing in 2002, in Vienna.
Perjovschi abandoned the pictorial reflection on thenature (static) immediately after graduation to graphically comment on humannature. His drawings are incisive, inspired from the post-revolutionary attitude pressand incorporating elements of raw art, graffiti and caricature. His monumentalscale works are deleted after the exhibition ends. The performing drawing and theephemeral art get him closer to the world of entertainment.
Since 1991, Dan Perjovschi, weekly has been illustrating Revista 22.
There are few people today who still know thatthe current National Theatre graphic LOGO was designed by Dan Perjovschi,immediately after 1989, under the directorship of Andrei Şerban. This LOGO has become again the emblem of the National Theatrewith Ion Caramitru's coming as the head of the institution.
