july 24 - july 31 / 2009

The Square Cat / Alexandru Ciubotariu – paste-ups on the walls of Bucharest.








































































Rat car / Andy Sinboy – intervention in public space.







































Entropy / Tudor Prisacariu – photo slideshow. Romania goes through a complex process of transformation, with a dramatic impact on all aspects of life. Besides the change in mentality, the landscape is irreversibly transformed. These changes are more visible in the cities, but can be observed in rural areas and other parts of the country. A project that attempts to better understand Romania, through a photographic documentation of over 40 places in the country.
























































Record / Tudor Bratu – artist book, 350 photocopied pages. Over 700 images document the similarities of urban landscape in Berlin, Bucharest, Amsterdam, Brussels, Seoul and Tallinn, creating the impression of an endless journey, as a continuous repetition.


















Album / Tudor Bratu – artist book, A4 pages. A family album that was photocopied.







































Ode to joy / Elena Ciobanu - Elena went to the area of Baneasa in Bucharest and wrote the verses of the poem by Friedrich Schiller on the walls of the buildings in the new residential complex. This is an enormous exclusivist collectivity, a sign of social separatism, a powerful characteristic of the urban space of Bucharest after the Revolution. Series of photos of the intervention.
























































































































































































Coca Cola / Andy Sinboy – intervention in public space. Andy manufactured a fake Coca-Cola bottle cap, the size of the enormous bottle hanging over one of the blocks of flats in the center of the city.

3| the city

On Friday, July 24, 2009, at 16.00, the third exhibition from the Young Romanian Art series will be opened in the New Gallery of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Venice, Italy. The exhibition is entitled 'the city', and it brings together works by Tudor Bratu, Elena Ciobanu, Alexandru Ciubotariu, Tudor Prisacariu, Andy Sinboy.


Almost all of us live in the city now. The highways have connected the most distant lands. Television, internet and GSM are with us everywhere. Natural places untouched by man have all but disappeared, and we don't want to hear about them any longer.

The strategies of the administration and of the financial powers formulate our lives. They set in motion the enormous building sites of social separatism and the surveillance systems comprising bodyguards and CCTV cameras.

Through the sieve of these grand gestures our microscopic daily tactics go through, unnoticed. The minor protests written with a marker on the freshly painted wall, the practical jokes played on advertising in public space, our daily observations on the decay of urban and rural landscapes, our retreat in private space through the use of photographs.


Young Romanian Art is Mircea Nicolae's residency project at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Venice, during which the artist functions as an organizer and a curator. This series of one-week exhibitions aims at promoting young Romanian art during the Venice Art Biennial 2009.