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[[Image:Smoking_grigorescu.Jpeg|thumb|400px|''Smoking self portrait, lithograph'', 1975]] | [[Image:Smoking_grigorescu.Jpeg|thumb|400px|''Smoking self portrait, lithograph'', 1975]] | ||
| − | Born 1945 in Romania. Member of [[Prolog]] group. Grigorescu is one of the very few multimedia artists in Romania who during the communist regime conducted visual research on the body: a taboo topic at the time. The artist’s body became work “material”—perceived as a “medium” and surface—onto which mental images are reflected. His body performances are to be seen as “post-happenings” with the emphasis no longer on the temporal dimension but rather on the photographic snapshot that, however, preserves a performative character. These works, like many others from the 1970s and 80s, would go public only much later. | + | Born 1945 in Romania. Member of [[Prolog]] group. He publish journal pages various texts and about history of photography in magazines ''Arta'' and ''Secolul 20''. |
| + | Grigorescu is one of the very few multimedia artists in Romania who during the communist regime conducted visual research on the body: a taboo topic at the time. The artist’s body became work “material”—perceived as a “medium” and surface—onto which mental images are reflected. His body performances are to be seen as “post-happenings” with the emphasis no longer on the temporal dimension but rather on the photographic snapshot that, however, preserves a performative character. These works, like many others from the 1970s and 80s, would go public only much later. | ||
== Works== | == Works== | ||
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== External links== | == External links== | ||
| + | * http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Grigorescu | ||
* http://subversive.c3.hu/en/Ion%20Grigorescu.php | * http://subversive.c3.hu/en/Ion%20Grigorescu.php | ||
[[Category:Experimental film|Grigorescu, Ion]] | [[Category:Experimental film|Grigorescu, Ion]] | ||
Revision as of 12:01, 21 January 2014
Born 1945 in Romania. Member of Prolog group. He publish journal pages various texts and about history of photography in magazines Arta and Secolul 20. Grigorescu is one of the very few multimedia artists in Romania who during the communist regime conducted visual research on the body: a taboo topic at the time. The artist’s body became work “material”—perceived as a “medium” and surface—onto which mental images are reflected. His body performances are to be seen as “post-happenings” with the emphasis no longer on the temporal dimension but rather on the photographic snapshot that, however, preserves a performative character. These works, like many others from the 1970s and 80s, would go public only much later.
Works
- Election Meeting, 1975, 28 photographs, b/w, 20 x 30 cm each. Snapshots taken during a rally in Bucharest, with a camera hidden on the artist’s hip, catching Securitate agents supervising the crowd and contrasting this view with that of with the ordinary participants, who were relaxed, tired, or bored.
- Dialogue with Ceauşescu, 1978, N8mm film / DVD, 7 min 11 sec. Here, the artist plays two opposing roles, in one of which he is wearing a mask with the face of Ceauşescu.
- Post-mortem Dialogue with Ceauşescu, 2007, Video / DVD, 22 min 29 sec.
