Permanent World Encyclopedia
Exhibition 3/10 - 9/11
Permanent World Encyclopedia
Curator: Norbert Filep
Participating artists: Roxana Ajder, Adrian Buda, Mihaela Coandă, Iulian Cristea, Călin Dumitrașcu, Iuliana Hlihor, Dariana Ilie, Andrei Ispas, Ana Lupu, Andreea Mihalka, David Miholcsa, Moga Dan Marius, Ada Muntean, Oana Năstăsache, Raluca Pavelescu, Iulia Pușcașu, Daniel Semenciuc, Codruț Zele.
A project by Arta Prezentului, together with Empower Artists & GLORIÆ Art Gallery.
About the artists
The exhibition “Permanent World Encyclopedia” unites the practices of eighteen young and emerging artists, who operate in a diversity of mediums, from the traditional stain of painting to the audio-visual formulas of artificial intelligence. The title derives from the literary work of H.G. Wells and refers to the relationship that today’s artistic practices have with the size of encyclopedias.
In an interconnected world whose lexicographical story lies every day in our pockets a click away, new artistic practices seem to articulate in a symbiosis with these systemically constructed spaces. Thus, the diversity suggested in this exhibition must be viewed in this key, and assimilated in the form of a complex of personal encyclopedias that complement the global one.
“The itinerant project of the “Permanent World Encyclopedia” exhibition is shaping up to be an interesting route in the dynamics of new generations. This fact is due to a double openness of this generation of artists; on the one hand, their interaction with the institutions present on the Romanian art scene and, on the other hand, with the public related to each location. The initiative of such a project is more than commendable, giving the new generations of artists the necessary visibility and openness by promoting their practices,” said Norbert FILEP, curator of the exhibition.