The curatorial program of the Arsmonitor art gallery continues with a new duo-show dedicated this time to the artist couple Magdalena and Bogdan Pelmus. The “Corp Comun” exhibition will have its opening on April 25 and will be accessible to the public until June 6.
The exhibition “Corp Comun” is the third exhibition this year in the program of the Arsmonitor gallery, after a solo exhibition dedicated to analog photographs by the artist Răzvan Neagoe and after the premiere exhibition of the paintings of Ioana Gorzo and Dumitru Gorzo, an exhibition that brought over 700 visitors in the evening ver-nisage.
Magdalena and Bogdan Pelmus are among the artists after 2000 who have developed a series of practices based on collaboration and artistic organization, engaging in their discourse new themes and mediums, from performance, installation and ready-made, to the Internet, happening and video. Their approach represents a significant contribution to the Romanian contemporary art scene in the last 20 years, distinguishing themselves as an emblematic duo of survival in a post-communist artistic space, traversed by a continuous transition.
They explored a series of initiatives and actions that questioned the great social, technological and political upheavals of the post-2000 and the effects of globalization in the Eastern Bloc. Since 2001, they have generated various formulas of artistic self-organization and autonomy, such as artistic groups, artist run space and various collective projects, among them listing Sursa Group, Glocal History, Loading Open Lab and Hybrid Manifestation. Along with their career as an artistic duo, the two also continued their personal projects and exhibitions.
The “Corp Comun” exhibition presents a selection of recent works by the artist couple Magdalena and Bogdan Pelmuș, which sums up a mature synthesis of their artistic approach from the last 20 years of activity. A suite of objects and images, drawing, painting, ready-made and video are brought together, which propose a gesture of reflection and recovery of the fragility and vulnerability of the human body today.
“On a symbolic level, the “Common Body” exhibition questions the paradoxical assembly of the human body, reflecting on the idea of unity and complementarity of the opposite elements that constitute it: on the one hand, the arterial structure of the physical body and, on the other , the dynamic expression and chromatic energy of the psychic body. In this sense, anthropic cohesion is showcased and researched with the help of a series of objects and images that refer to dissection, to anatomical study and, at the same time, to the indexing of traces of memory and psychoses. The blood network and the psychic field, despite the differences in content and form, form a common body in a relationship of adhesion and strange complementarity”. (Passage from the curatorial text).
Arsmonitor, the first art gallery that opened in the Casa Presei Libere, is the newest gallery in the cultural landscape of Bucharest, a space dedicated to art and transformation, as well as dialogue between artists, collectors and art lovers.
