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RECYCLE NEST Gallery was founded in 2009 by two artists, Sorin Neamtu and BogdanVladuta. From the beginning, the gallery aimed to be a platform for debate on Romanian artscene which was underrepresented. Another reason why the gallery came to life was the need to promote Romanian contemporary art in a European context ready to assimilate existing artistic entities in Eastern Europe. The gallery assumes the status of artist run space thus the exhibitions promoted are strictly the conclusion of the affinities of the two founding artists have.
War Makes Museums
19:00 - 04:00instalation
artists: Ion Grigorescu, Bogdan Vlăduță
Where? How many exhibitions are you going to do? What’s your goal?
In the first one, in the courtyard of Storck Museum, you have defined your own points of view, of the person who takes pictures of the spot and the person that is
moving only in imagination. But the one in Rome actually dreams the past fusing with what he sees, and the one in Romania is documenting in Adamclissi the imagination of the barbarians that couldn’t get to see the capital, Rome. So both beaten by the strategies of each other because, regardless of the presence of your consciousness, it is the unconscious that demands this central human settlement, which says: "All roads lead to it, see it and then you die".
Today we have a book written by Bogdan Vladuta which is layed-out by Ion Grigorescu, and the last words in the introduction are of a "blind"person. What a tone! "I’m telling you the truth that in this moment ..."! Emergency, alarm is coming from fate that you can not fight, from the unconscious already mentioned. We say "unconscious", but on unknown ways, we come to know as a different kind of awareness. The blind of whom Vladuta says "Grigorescu imagine Rome with the tip of a pencil which invents the solutions of the blind", we understand him- we are all blind, even working with computer, any tool (called here "pen") is a cane.
"See it!" we shove each other "to reach" will be the end of the exhibitions.
Urgency and anguish come and the question "to what kind of present are we looking now?" Because what we see (or museum exhibits) are results of massacres in Rome, Kabul or Bucharest, Vladuta writes this time directly on the painting of a Bucharest image. Return to a Freudian unconscious this time (see "Das Unbehagen in der Kultur") man is driven by the vital and lethal instinct thus artistic action is guided ( back to the blind) by sublimation (of evil, of trauma) by neurosis, the damnation of tranquility, of good (thus put in quotes).
“Bucuresti Has ruins. Bucuresti is not Kabul even if the communist house of people seems to be Da Rul Aman. Every ruin is a paradigm. That’s why we love Rome and Mosul, for the same reason War makes museums.” Bogdan Vlăduţ / extracted from a picture published in this exhibition.