RECONFIGURATIONS OF THE EXHIBITION SPACE. CASE STUDY: CRISTI RUSU EXHIBITION AT THE “PLAN B” GALLERY
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2020.spiss.11Keywords:
Plan B Gallery, Cristi Rusu, sublime, the archive, “profane space”, non-siteAbstract
Reconfigurations of the Exhibition Space – Case Study: Cristi Rusu Exhibition at the Plan B Gallery. In this paper I focus on a case study concerning the Cristi Rusu exhibition, The Only Thing I Am Sure about in This Life Lies above My Head, from the Plan B Gallery in Berlin (March 6 – April 11 2020). By integrating some interventions specific to land art in the gallery space (and, therefore, transforming it), Cristi Rusu manages to transgress the conventional limits imposed by the idea of a white cube gallery neutral space. The art gallery’s space functions as a medium for developing artistic discourse as the project tries to detach from the tradition and ideologies already incorporated in a certain place and time, in search for the sublime.
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https://www.plan-b.ro/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Cristian-Rusu-The-Only-Thing-I-Am-Sure-about-in-This-Life-Lies-above-My-Head-press-release-3.pdf: The curatorial text for the Cristi Rusu exhibition The Only Thing I Am Sure about in This Life Lies above My Head, Plan B Gallery, Berlin, March 6 – April 11, 2020, curator Diana Marincu (link accessed on June 13 2020).
https://www.plan-b.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/press_release_cluj_m.pdf: the curatorial text for the Teodor Graur and Cristi Rusu exhibition Monuments to the Ruins of Tomorrow, Plan B Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, June 10 – July 31, 2016, curator Diana Marincu (link accessed on June 13, 2020).
https://www.plan-b.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Press-Release-Cristian-Rusu-Michael-Takeo-Magruder.pdf: the curatorial text for the Cristi Rusu and Michael Takeo Magruder exhibition Stranded Monuments², Plan B Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, November 10 – December 10, 2007, curators Diana Marincu and Horea Avram (link accessed on June 13, 2020).
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the curatorial text for the Cristi Rusu exhibition Space Itself, Plan B Gallery, Berlin, June 19 – July 25, 2009, curator Mihnea Mircan (link accessed on June 13, 2020).
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