equestrian - postcards documenting public space interventions/sculptures

Postcards

In the frame of "Eight and a half works" exhibition - Salonul de Proiecte, anexa MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest)

Long April interview by Raluca Voinea and Iulia Popovici

http://www.e-cart.ro/longapril/2/en/start_page.php

"Dacă voi nu ne vreţi, noi vă vrem [If you don’t want us, we want you], the work of Alexandra Pirici represents different enactments of living sculptures, confronting public heroic monuments and buildings in Bucharest, such as the controversially rebuilt equestrian statue of Carol I, the monument of the 1989 Revolution or the House of the People.

The artists embody the awkward reflexion of a past that is all too questionable despite its apparent immutability, with well-rooted and imposing effects on the present. In the uneven relationship between their bodies and the stone or the bronze, they manage to cast doubt upon their objects of reference, to reveal them as the real ghosts."

Raluca Voinea - curator for "Doppelganger of the Recent Past" exibition in the frame of "Temps d'Images" festival.

"Daca voi nu ne vreti (...)"

Financed by the National Dance Center, Bucharest

Bucharest, 15th of September - 15th of Octomber 2011

Concept: Alexandra Pirici

Participants: Jean-Lorin Sterian, Madalina Dan, Andreea Novac, Florin Flueras, Andrei Dinu, Adriana Gheorghe, Vlad Basalici, Bogdan Draganescu, Maria Mora, Alexandra Pirici, Anca Benera, Mihaela Dancs, Alexandra Cucu.
Photography: Irina Stelea, Veioza Arte, Alexandru Patatics, Iulia Popovici, Luiza Alecsandru, Alexandra Pirici
Video: Veioza Arte, Emi Vasiliu, Alexandru Patatics




1940/1989/2011




Action/ inaction at the Monument of Revolution (Rebirth)



1989/2011




Action at the House of People (now the Palace of the Parliament)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Parliament

Rosalind Krauss - Sculpture in the Expanded Field

http://newmediaabington.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/31643643/Krauss%20-%20Sculpture%20in%20the%20Expanded%20Field.pdf

Francis Alys

http://www.francisalys.com/

Janez Jansa, Janez Jansa, Janez Jansa - Mount Triglav on Mount Triglav

http://www.reakt.org/triglav/index.html

Bon Jovi concert at the House of People

http://presainblugi.com/si-a-fost-dublu-bon-jovi-si-vodafone-au-scos-capitala-in-strada-video-maxim/

The life and death of public monuments

Ákos Eleod Life-size replica of the remaining part of a monument to Stalin after it was dismantled in 1956 (2006) Memento Park, Budapest, Hungary.

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/all-fall-down/

Anca Benera - "The Red Rider"

http://alternativ.ro/vazut/anca-benera-the-red-rider