Virus Diary Biennial | Cryptic Lineages Group show

Mercredi 28 juin 2023

Vendredi 28 juillet 2023

Vernissage

mer 28 juin 2023, 18:00

Finissage

ven 28 Juil 2023, 18:00

Silvia Trăistaru Studio: Camera 30 | Malmaison Studios and Diptych Art Space
Calea Plevnei, no. 137C, B Side, 2nd Floor, Bucharest
Plantelor Street 58, Bucharest
060011 Bucharest
Roumanie

Comment s'y rendre ?

Virus Diary Biennial | Cryptic Lineages

Virus Diary is an international experiment that took place during the first weeks of the 2020 lockdown, and can be seen as a response by the participating artists to the restrictions imposed by the health crisis. Originally, Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi was scheduled to have a solo exhibition at the White Cuib gallery in Cluj-Napoca. Since the exhibition could not take place physically due to pandemic restrictions, the online networks of the White Cuib Gallery presented a wide range of visual interpretations for nine weeks. Artists from Romania, Germany, Spain, USA, UK, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Uruguay, Indonesia, Colombia, France, Malaysia, China, Japan, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Hungary and Montenegro contributed to the project.

After the end of the pandemic restrictions, the project was exhibited in Madrid, Satu Mare, New York, Iași, Brașov, Târgu Mureș, Timișoara, Heraklion, Braunschweig, Reșița, Vienna, Piatra Neamț, Cologne and Nuremberg.

Although the initial core of the group remained constant, there were several formulas of collaboration with various other artists and curators. These repeated exhibitions led to mutations in the project. In order to transform the first edition of the Virus Diary Biennial into a space for dialogue on the new socio-cultural paradigms imposed by the pandemic and the post-pandemic period, the four curators involved, Alina Andrei, Magdalena Pelmuș, Luciana Tamas and Silvia Trăistaru, invited new artists to present works appropriate to the current context—radically different from that of the lockdown restrictions.

These contributions complement the old formula in which the Virus Diary has been presented so far. As an international experiment, with representative names of the art scene, the curators consider the project valuable for the whole community, as it brings back into the collective memory an episode of recent history that led to a different approach to health challenges and created the conditions for the outbreak of war in Ukraine. The generic title of the new formula was specifically chosen to reflect the idea of mutation—both with the coronavirus and in society as a whole.

Locations:

Diptych Art Space, Plantelor Street 58, Bucharest and Silvia Trăistaru Studio: Camera 30 | Malmaison Studios, Calea Plevnei, no. 137C, B Side, 2nd Floor, Bucharest

Curators:

Alina Andrei, Magdalena Pelmuș, Luciana Tămaș, Silvia Trăistaru

Artists:

Virus Diary Biennial | Cryptic Lineages

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Visits only by appointment:

Diptych Art Space, Plantelor Street 58, 030167 Bucharest. diptych.artspace@gmail.com

and

Silvia Trăistaru Studio: Camera 30 | Malmaison Studios, Calea Plevnei no. 137C, B Side, 2nd Floor, Bucharest. silvia.traistaru@gmail.com

Virus Diary Biennial | Cryptic Lineages Group show

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