Dominoes and ups and downs

Playing with dominoes is pretty much the game that Bucharest has been going through with its architecture... The thing is... if you make a mistake then everything goes down, like in real life. The only difference is that in real life you can at least try to avoid mistakes.

Up: Kate, Victor, Vicky, Anca, Mihai
Down: Marwan

DOCOMENTA 2007

Remix of poster featuring Gili Mocanu's "CO" sticker and (c)Stefan Constantinescu's DIY Dacia


Arnold Anca Gili

Gili M

Walhalla picture by Arnold


UFO over the Danube


From Regensburg with love

Portrait of a curator as a young woman

Bucharest white night

Tagged by Dacian Groza

Some photography (c) by Dacian Groza

Dacian Groza is a great photographer. Today I got an email from him saying that I got tagged and a link to his blog where he said:
"As everyone and their dog is tagging everyone else on blogs, asking each other's secrets and forwarding it to everybody else, I'm going to tag Noper, Cristina Negrau, Vlad Nanca, Saddo and Mona Miclea to pick one of my photos and draw over it, mash it or mix it with something else, or whatever they want to do to make anything else. [...] And, of course, you should forward the tag to the next subjects :P"

To be honest with you I can't really change anything about his pictures as I like them as they are. What I am doing though is to mix one of my images among two of his and let everyone know I wish I were Dacian Groza.

I also love the work of everyone else Dacian got into his little game and is an honor to be among them. You should also check out Fotofangen, another playground where Dacian, Mona and I are playing with other photographers.

I am tagging Tudor, Tudor, Tudor, Maria and Oana.
So, pick one of my photos and draw over it, mash it or mix it with something else, or whatever you want to do to make anything else. Of course, you should forward the tag to the next subjects :P

Pacat

Cars with character

I love shopping

it makes me feel good.

From Prague with love

I have recently been to Prague to show some work at the Prague Biennale. Here are a few pictures from those days...
Here is Mr Kiraly and I by the river...

Breakfast at the boatel...

Victor

Victor and Simona

Sebastian

The unforgettable Europe boat

Hummm

Humm again

and again.

At one point things went completely wrong

Red Dacia, Red Dacia

Romania, McDonalds

With love, from Ploiesti, Romania

Skateboardart

This is my work for the Skateboard art exhibition - Ne placa ce faci - which opened last week at Galeria Noua. Pictures from the exhibition by Oana, here.

New Europe in Rome

New Europe is the name of this piece I did for Editing Project organized throughout 2005-2007 in Gorizia and finished in Rome last month... Gorizia (Italy) and Nova Gorica (Slovenia) are two towns which at the end of the Second World War were only one town and got in a Berlin-like situation when the border between the two countries was drawn through the city.
Now things are radically changing as the crossing points at the border are being closed down and people are free to chose where they want to live, work study or just have dinner.

As an answer to this situation I have created a blackboard arrow which allows people to write anything they want on it. This can be wiped off and replaced by different words putting the person writing in a powerful position, with the rights of deciding over directions. The blackboard arrow underlines the relativity of geography and ideas in relation to time and history

I have taken the arrow in different spots in the two towns and photographed it with various words written on it. These photographs were then exhibited in Rome next to the arrow which functioned as a basic interactive installation giving the people the chance to write anything they wanted on it.

Photos of the exhibition by Chiara Scategni

Happy Sunday at MNAC

It is exactly a week ago that I did the performance at MNAC - two hours lying down under a car. The strangest thing was this TV crew that interviewed me during the performance. I didnt really know whether I should talk to them or not... in the end I answer to their questions not before telling them this story... The whole thing reminded me of a news on ProTV (a few years ago) when someone was stuck with his legs under a lorry in a terrible accident. The TV crew was interviewing this person asking them what he was doing there. We more more or less in the same position only no one was hurt this time.

Photos by Carmen Iovitu