Border Body – Performative Lab at Allegra Nomad Gallery
Noaptea Albă a Galeriilor
May 23, 2014. Opening: May 23, 2014, 7 pm. (Noaptea Albă a Galeriilor)
ALLEGRA NOMAD GALLERY
Str. Băiculești 29, Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Sala Tipografia
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Border Body – Performative Lab at Allegra Nomad Gallery
May 23, 2014. Opening: May 23, 2014, 7 pm. (Noaptea Albă a Galeriilor)

As developed by Simona Deaconescu
Involving the visual artist Dilmana Yordanova
Artistis making a statement: Catrinel Catana, Cristina Lilienfeld, Andreea Novac, Vlad Merariu, Silviu Mititelu

Allegra Nomad Gallery, Str. Băiculești 29, Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Sala Tipografia
Public transport: BUS 112, 149, 331, 331bis
Directions by phone: 0725796860
http://allegranomad.com/

If we were to make a choice regarding the limitations of our body, separating it from the context in which it was developed, what traces would it leave in space? If the video camera is the subjective point of view of an active viewer will it alter the perspective over the creative process, as regarded by the third eye – the public. The limitation of our body in the physical and spiritual space has become a reason of reflexive discourses. The need to understand our own physical capacities and the way our system processes the information in creative laboratory causes alterations to our motion system. What infinite articulated stories can be self created in an infinite space? The informational and sensorial luggage which we gather in a single moment  is a powerful source of inspiration, than the past or the future. Simona Deaconescu invites in her laboratory artists that present themselves and their bodies as issues to be taken into consideration, their point of view toward their bodies’ borders create the flesh of the laboratory. They push the limits of their bodies beyond context, researching the deep mechanism of generating movement and the micro-connections developed during the process.

Border Body – Performative Lab
is part of
Shortsighted. Presbyopic. Blindfolded
May 9-25, 2014.
Coordination: Allegra Nomad Gallery
Invited artists: Alexandru Ciubotariu / Pisica Pătrată, Sandra Mavhima, Lea Rasovzsky, Ana Maria Micu, Mihail Coșulețu, Ciprian Ariciu, Simona Deaconescu
Featured artists: Radu Aldea, Dilmana Yordanova, Catrinel Catana, Cristina Lilienfeld, Andreea Novac, Vlad Merariu, Silviu Mititelu
Curator: Igor Mocanu

The space of the hall is turned into a rupturing forum by placing a wooden structure with a platform and benches for the visitors. The platform is cut into two symmetrical half-spaces that aim to re-stage two dimensions of the contemporary arts field: art which is accompanied by an explicatory discourse or with a shape owing to verbal conceptualisation; and art with a non-verbal and primarily material discourse. On the one side are artists who, generically speaking, sit and paint on an easel, but they can practice any other classical form of art (sculpture, drawing, object installation, photography), on the other, artist who explain their works, conceptualising (performance, speech, dance, happening). On the one hand are visual arts, and of the other, performative arts. The audience is urged to assist and turn into an art critic and make critical judgements.

[Ongoing]
Alexandru Ciubotariu / Pisica Pătrată (Pavilion 1): Self-portraits, painting.
Ciprian Ariciu (Pavilion 1): Exibiting contemporary ceramics.
Ana Maria Micu (Pavilion 1): Installing the image, interactive reenactment of the studio, painting, photographs.

[Gallery description]

Allegra Nomad Gallery (founded in 2012) does not belong to a particular architectural or geographical space and is always in search of new forms of dialogue with the already existent exhibition spaces for contemporary art and not only, forwarding its efforts towards the offering of support and promotion for the gallery artists. The gallery conceived and organized several exhibitions in Bucharest and Vienna to present the artists: Philippa von Bastha, Horia Mina, Paul Neagu, Sorin Dumitrescu, Nikolai Ghika, Carla Damian and Dario Carratta.

Parallel event of Bucharest Biennale 6.