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						Club Electro Putere at the Venice Biennale

Romanian Cultural Resolution-documentary

31 May–27 November 2011



Opening:

Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 7 pm
					


					
						
					


					
						Club Electro Putere announces its participation at the 54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
with the project entitled Romanian Cultural Resolution – documentary exhibited at the New Gallery of the
Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice and initiated by Adrian Bojenoiu and Alexandru
Niculescu.



Romanian Cultural Resolution – documentary was selected to represent Romania at the Venice Biennale together
with the project entitled Performing History, exhibited at the Romanian Pavilion in the Giardini di Castello;
(artists Ion Grigorescu, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, curators Maria Rus Bojan, Ami Barak, Bogdan Ghiu) 



Romanian Cultural Resolution – documentary consists of transferring the activity of the Centre for
Contemporary Culture Club Electro Putere from Craiova in the frame of the Venice Biennial with the intention of
disseminating the activity of a Romanian independent art center in the international art context, proposing a
documentation and research platform of the contemporary Romanian art. RCR – documentary surveys the solutions
and tendencies which Romanian visual arts have developed over the last years. This brings into discussion not only the
renaissance and reformation of the contemporary artistic discourse but also an entire range of problems and
circumstances that illustrate the artist's fragile status in his local context and the adjustment of the international
artistic context to the idea of spectacle and mercantilism. 



Romanian Cultural Resolution – documentary has several stages during the Biennial: presentation of a
documentary film based on interviews, presentation of a photographic archive of the exhibitional RCR project from
Werkschau Spinnerei, Leipzig and from Club Electro Putere, Craiova, presentation of a selection of Romanian art books
representative for the art context of the last 20 years, the release of the Romanian Cultural Resolution
catalogue by Hatje Cantz publishing house, the vernisage of the project The Iron Curtain, a Memory Box, initiated by
Ştefan Constantinescu and Xandra Popescu produced in partnership with the artists: Deimantas Narkevicius, Peter
Forgacs, Zuzanna Janin, Via Lewandowski, Liliana Moro, Karen Mirza, Brad Butler, Yvez Netzamer, The Åbäke Collective.




Club Electro Putere is a Romanian centre for contemporary culture founded in 2009 by Adrian Bojenoiu and
Alexandru Niculescu.  The history of Club Electro Putere begins in the seventies: it was founded to organize cultural
activities for the proletariat working in the "Electroputere" plant, which produced electric motors for locomotives and
industry. At the same time, it functioned until 1989 as a center of control and propaganda for the Communist Party.
After the fall of Communism, the cultural activities carried on there declined dramatically, and ceased in 1995. That
year marked the beginning of a period when the public taste for new media and forms of entertainment coming from the
West became ever more apparent, and gradually led to the disappearance of a cultural context hitherto identified with
the middle-classes. Between 1995 and 2000 the space was used variously as a pub, a night club, and a fitness and health
club, until it finally closed. In 2009 it resumed the title of Centre for Contemporary Culture. 



The CEP activity is focused on inquiring into contemporary human practices concentrated on cultural manifestations. The
purpose of the centre is to enable inter-human cultural exchanges by connecting different levels of reality and
expression. The cultural activities of CEP question the status of contemporary culture having the aim of decoding the
existing expression and communication forms in order to produce and promote alternative narrative structures.



Adrian Bojenoiu, born in 1976, lives and works in Craiova. Adrian studied philosophy at the Babes-Bolyai
University from Cluj and he got his PhD in philosophy at the Charles de Gaulle Lille3 University (2004-2009). His
research domains are esthetics, art critique and French contemporary philosophy. He took part in numerous conferences
and debates, 2007 Actualites du concept d'espace: Géographie, Philosophie, Art,  École Normale Superieure, Lyon, 2006
L'Europe à venir: Sécularisation, Justice, Démocratie, UBB Cluj. 2005 Langues et langage, École Normale Supérieure,
Paris.



Alexandru Niculescu, born in 1979, lives and works in Craiova. He graduated from The University of Art in
Bucharest and won the 'Vasile Pârvan' Grant at the Romanian Academy in Rome (2006-2008) and 'Theodor Aman' at the
Academy of Visual Art in Leipzig (2008-2010). In 2007 he gets public attention with the exhibition "Times New Român",
project which aims to question different types of practices of social territorialization  in the extended european space
centered upon "the expression of Romanian forms of manifestation" as a conceptual issue.



The participation of the Romanian Cultural Resolution – documentary project to the 54th International Art Exhibition-
la Biennale di Venezia is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Romanian Cultural Institute and will be
achieved in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Romania.



Club Electro Putere - the program at the Venice Biennale:

New Gallery

Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research, 

Cannaregio 2214 - 30121 Venice



Romanian Cultural Resolution-documentary

31 May–27 November

Opening:

Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 7 pm



The Iron Curtain, a Memory Box

1 September–27 November

Opening:

Thursday, 1 September, 6 pm





Club Electro Putere – the program in Romania:

Calea Bucureşti 56

200515 Craiova, Romania



Here and Then

15 April–6 May 2011

artists: Alexandra Croitoru & Ştefan Tiron, Ion Grigorescu, Julian Mereuţă, Aurelia Mihai, Ciprian Mureşan, Miklos
Onucsan and Marina Albu, Răzvan Botiş, Ştefan Sava 

curator Magda Radu

Opening:

Friday, 15 April 2011, 6 pm



Lia & Dan Perjovschi

9 October–12 November 2011

Opening:

Saturday, 15 October 2011, 11 am




					

					 

					
						
					
					

					

				
			
			
				
                    
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