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001_servant_not_found
Opening: October 29, 2019, 7:00 PM
Artist: Radu Carnariu
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Will/can the contemporary artist be just a ”bricoleur” of social media fantasieis, an ”i-magician” of the breaking-news narratives, a creative agent of ideological entropization, a docile illustrator of curatorial policies, a histrionic craftsman of careerism (the strongest artistic trend of the last decades), a zealous cop of aesthetic programming, a misunderstood genius of self-mediatization, a courtesan of the institutional ”waiting horizon”, a seasonal trafficker of tabloid stories, a malleable discursive package for the most succesful contexts (...) a useless demagogue of questioning, “stuck in the project” between ”cognition” and ”recognition”?
As the first episode of the critical / clinical project entitled Argumented Reality, _servant_not_found is a ”mind”-specific micro-exhibition that addresses the topic of artist condition / conditioning in the romanian duplicitous context of ”meritocracy” related to the educational "ideal" and, especially, the "spleen", to paraphrase with a bitter (self) irony the famous title of Baudelaire.
Correlating in a playful approach various disparate visual, textual and spatial paradoxes, _servant_not_found articulates an anti-discourse that alludes to the institutional demagogy of "performance" and "excellence" in relation to the blunt reality, to the systemic impotence of a schizotypal society to understand and integrate its ”forever”- emerging values, to the "gray haemorrhage" of the talents, to the (re)sent(i)ment of exile in one's own country, in its own psycho-social condition stridently split between what you can and what you are.
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Exhibition View 1
bad_gateway
clinical_panels
Exhibition View 2
EXILE
Exhibition View 3
WRONG TOOL
Exhibition View 4
THE PERFECT WORKER
Exhibition View 5
BENDING THE RULE
MAGNA CUM LAUDE