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The Museum of Modern Art, New York






Projects 85: Dan Perjovschi
WHAT HAPPENED TO US?

May 2–August 27, 2007

Exhibition organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography


For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, the Romanian
artist Dan Perjovschi was invited to create a large-scale drawing
installation at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, executed over a period
of two weeks directly onto the wall of The Donald B. and Catherine C.
Marron Atrium. Inspired by current events reported on television and in
newspaper and tabloid headlines, Perjovschi explores political topics,
including the Middle East conflict and the recent extension of the
European Union. Through concise phrases and wordplay, his sketches and
skits portray reality with a sense of criticality and pointed humor. The
work’s rhetorical title, WHAT HAPPENED TO US?, offers a textual pun, in
which US may refer either to the subjective pronoun “us” or to the proper
noun “United States of America.”

Perjovschi’s drawings have been widely disseminated—from the walls of
museums to the pages of newspapers. Since 1990, following the demise of
Communism in Eastern Europe and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the
artist has contributed hundreds of witty and incisive observations to
literary and political journals, such as Contrapunct and 22. The latter
was the first independent oppositional weekly published in Romania in the
aftermath of the Democratic Revolution. Taking its name from the date
December 22, 1989, the historic day on which Romanian dictator Nicolae
Ceausescu was ousted from power, 22 is the brainchild of the Group of
Social Dialogue, a think tank of dissident writers, artists, and
philosophers who endorse freedom of expression and human rights. As an
illustrator for 22, and as its former art director, Perjovschi has
transformed drawing into a medium of information and political commentary.
Expressing complex ideas in rapidly executed, off-the-cuff drawings, Pe
rjovschi’s installation proposes that art can be engaged without being
moralistic.

To read an interview with Dan Perjovschi, please visit the Museum’s Web
site at http://www.moma.org/projects .

The exhibition is accompanied by a free newspaper created by the artist.

The Projects series is made possible by the Elaine Dannheisser Projects
Endowment Fund and by The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art
and the JA Endowment Committee.

Special thanks to the Romanian Cultural Institute, New York


For press inquiries, please contact Kim Donica at 212.708.9752 or
kim_donica la moma.org
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