CATALIN BURCEA
b. 1966
Lives and works in Bucharest.
Co-founder and Project Coordinator @ ALERT studio (White Code).
Co-founder of ALIAJ - Bucharest's Artist Run Spaces Alliance.
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My own artistic productions are in fact reflexive comments, sometimes critical, sometimes ironic, regarding local and international socio-political transformations.
Political power, religion / church, press, advertising, television, or the Internet are the main producers of influential content. The dynamics of manipulation systems and methods, both subtle or extremely aggressive, specific to these areas, are questionable elements for which there are no definitive answers but rather "alerts" that are recurrently found in my productions.
Usually materialized through video, photography, object, installation, drawing, conceptual writing, etc., they are basically conceptualist-minimalist interventions in the everyday spectrum.
I consider the concept to be a prime material for art. However, the endeavour that I propose does not refer to the percepts of “traditional” conceptualism of the 60’s and 70’s. Instead of object dematerialisation and the predominance of the linguistic message, I wish to readmit the object in a significant order, to redefine it, to reinforce its purpose and its image. Thus, these objects are not discreet elements, but they belong to a network of signs and narrations that refract each other and dictate a wider set of references to the world in its entirety, and towards the “art world” in general.
Due to an auto-referential process of observation, understanding here the observation of the “proximity context” from a historical point of view - present / near past - my artistic practices can be described as ones of the “time-specific” sort.
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www.catalinburcea.ro
www.alertstudio.org
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