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Book covers

Book covers with my photographs, designed by my good friend Milos. Don't look for credits to us in the book, Humanitas are very fair people, as usual.

Winter in Solitude

As I said before, I went back to Solitude for my exhibition opening. It all went very well and I'm really happy with how it looks. Now I should start working for a little catalogue but also for an exhibition at the French Institute in Bucharest coming up soon.

Dream of Bucharest

“Dream of a city where cars can fly; where cars are more important than anything else... Cars are on the street, on the pavements, in the gardens, everywhere. A million cars is a sign of prosperity… life is not so bad. Dream of Bucharest.”

Dream of Bucharest is a site specific installation for the Hirschgang at the Solitude Akademie. 12 car sculptures are placed along the hallway obliging the visitor to zig zag around them in order to find their way to the end of the room. As you enter the corridor you will find yoursef in a dreamy, UFO witness like situation face to face with all the white cars. A little noise at the end of the room is inviting everyone to explore further. As you walk more into the room, you will discover, drawings, photographs and videos on the back of the cars, all different expressions of Nancă’s Dream of Bucharest.

Inspired by the situation in Bucharest with an ever growing number of cars, but also by the shape of Dacia 1300, the Romanian national car, Nancă has recently been drawing a childlike car contours all over the city of Bucharest. Nancă has used the graffiti technique (which some might find violent and destructive) as an attempt to raise attention to the unhealthy situation of the great number of automobiles as well as criticizing the growing consumerist attitude in his home town. His street car drawings are now developed into a more complex installation – the 12 car sculptures immitate the everday scenario in Bucharest with blocked pavements making pedestrian traffic difficult. Though “Dream of Bucharest” is not the story of a nightmare but an artist’s gaze at the state of afairs.The drawings, photographs and the videos waiting to be discovered on the back of the cars are all inspired by the condition in Bucharest but also in other cities and situations.

If you want to visit the exhibition here is the program.

Life at Solitude - October - December 2006

Good bye Solitude. Hello Solitude

I finished my time at Solitude 4 weeks ago but I'll be back to Stuttgart this week for an exhibition. I will show some pictures from the show as soon as I can and I promise to start blogging more.

egophobia

Iulia Argint interviewed me for 'egophobia' (Romanian only).

And you do too

17 years

17 years today...

Here is a song about the revolution by the Balanescu Quartet, taken from the album Luminitza, you must listen to that if you havent done it yet! And if you do have the album, listen to it as it makes so much sense in a day like this.

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My brother

Mircea is back in Asia and this time is blogging about it.

New Europe

I've been to Gorizia / Nova Gorica and I've done a piece which should be shown sometime next year in Rome. Picture of me in action by Lorenzo Benedetti

window

When I was little I used to look out the window for hours.

Remake

My good friend Daniel Gontz will soon open his "Remake" show at Dan Popescu's gallery in Bucharest... This picture is a remake of one of SubReal's iconic images from the 'Framing the cities' series. The colour picture shows Daniel and Mr Iosif Kiraly at work...

I <3 Polski Fiat

I 'm a giant. :)

Bere Ciucas presents

Mr Nanca and Mr Tiron in the train journey from Cluj toBukresh
Photo taken by Miss Mihail
Thank you.

Holy Grill v2.0

The Holy Grill was part of Janek's Simon Madagascar exhibition opening last Thursday in Lodz... Different from last time I did it, now it had two grills. There were 800 saussages cooked and two sheep were especially sacrificed for that. I was quite happy to hear about that as it brought more power to the piece, placing it stronger into the Old Testament context. Anyway, people were happy to eat and the hardcore Polish catholics didnt make themselves heard.

The (not so) White Stripes

Mr Pop, Mr Nanca and Mr Ghenie before the opening the Miss Croitoru's exhibition at plan b.

Chateau Solitude

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

This is my piece for TVR - Romanian State Television's 50th anniversary. Several artists were invited to produce a work which would be kept on the television premises for a year. My piece consists of a comment on the autenticity of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, supposedly the first revolution ever to be transmited live on television. The banner is up from today onwards and will (hopefully) stay up for a whole year.

Suplimentul de cultura

Interviewed me (in Romanian).