[romania_eu_list] The Realism Question – Epilogue to Bucharest Biennale 4

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The Realism Question – Epilogue to Bucharest Biennale 4
Open until 24 September 2010

Participating artists: Magnus Bärtås, Kalle Brolin, Ion Grigorescu, Joana 
Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, The Medvedkine Groups, Paul Neagu, Lina Selander, 
Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor. Curator: Felix Vogel

Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm
Skeppsbron 20
Stockholm, Sweden
www.rkis.se

In connection with the exhibition The Realism Question – Epilogue to Bucharest 
Biennale 4, the Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm is organizing two 
parallel events, and will launch a publication documenting the show.

6 September at 6.30 pm
The Reality of Contemporary Art Biennials
Participants: Răzvan Ion, Johan Pousette, Celia Prado and Eugen Rădescu
Moderator: Charlotte Bydler
The discussion will focus on two tracks that haunt discourses on realism in 
art. On the one hand, we will talk about contemporary art biennials as a mode 
of communication, gaps or clashes between the physical-aesthetic reality of 
exhibited material artworks in art biennials, and the reality it poetically 
conveys. The second focus turns to the kind of reality that is locally 
relevant, or what we may call the politico-aesthetic agenda of the contemporary 
art biennial.

22 September at 6.30 pm
Release of Magnus Bärtås's and Lina Selander's latest books 
Release of You Told Me – work stories and video essays/verkberättelser och 
videoessäer by Magnus Bärtås and The Space of Memory by Lina Selander. 

Publication:
The exhibition The Realism Question is accompanied by a publication in English 
documenting the show and the works presented. The publication contains an essay 
by Felix Vogel, an interview with Albrecht Koschorke about the paradoxes of 
realism, and the transcription of the talk at the opening of the exhibition, 
between Magnus Bärtås, Kalle Brolin, Lina Selander and Felix Vogel, moderated 
by curator Helena Holmberg. Installation views by photographer Jean-Baptiste 
Béranger accompany the texts. 

The publication will be released on 6 September at the Romanian Cultural 
Institute of Stockholm. If you would like to receive a free copy of the 
publication by post, please write us an e-mail with your full name and postal 
address at therealismquest...@rkis.se.

The Realism Question – Epilogue to Bucharest Biennale 4
The Realism Question has emerged as an epilogue to the 4th Bucharest Biennale: 
Handlung. Producing Possibilities that took place in Bucharest between 21 May 
and 25 July 2010. The exhibition at the Romanian Cultural Institute of 
Stockholm has its starting point in the hypothesis that a new form of realism 
emerged at the end of the 1960s and in the 1970s on both sides of the Iron 
Curtain in Europe. With works by The Medvedkine Groups, Paul Neagu, Ion 
Grigorescu as historical starting points, The Realism Question follows these 
traces from the past into the present, searching for today's descendants of 
those early endeavours with works by Magnus Bärtås, Kalle Brolin, Lina 
Selander, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, among others.

Thanks to IASPIS and Paul Neagu Estate (UK).

Admission to the institute is always free.
The exhibition is open Monday – Friday 10 am – 5 pm. 
The film "Je veux voir" by Joana Hajdithomas & Khalil Joreige starts at 5 pm.
Visit www.rkis.se or call +468207600 for more information.

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