Wannabe. Visibility Exercise

Multi-media Installation
Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest 2008

 
The young artists are somewhere between emerging artists and wannabes. Aspirant to self-assertion, expression, development and integration in the artistic system, between the desire of communication and the search of benchmarks, „the young artist” is a special category in the present artistic current.
The visibility exercises are a personal and self-biographic approach, a process of critical analysis of factors that determine the contemporary artistic production.

"The young artist. Namely a “Wannabe” – a position, a state, a condition analyzed through a “visibility exercise” achieved in the gallery space. It is a critical introspection gesture, which Oana Toderică sincerely presents to those around her. On the gallery walls, a part of her own artistic file is actually exhibited: photographs and texts that offer evidence of previous activities.
Alongside, a video support through which she confesses in a non-dissimulated manner her irony towards the becoming artist’s position : a rephrasing in “n” variants of the current condition – “I have graduated from the Faculty of Plastic Arts” . This means I am an artist. Am I an artist?! In the central plan- “the opportunities” : Xerox copies with divergent call for applications promisingly, optimistically and abundantly enumerated. All are constituted in the coordinates of a personal world that finds similitude with those of the so-called emerging artist from anywhere.
For Oana, this visibility exercise acquires the impression of an artistic confession, becomes a self-portrait with its inherent non-clarities. From the same the artist’s photos that perfectly complete the exhibition in which the different sharp creates different focus areas. The self-analysis act seems to have an intimistic value betrayed with some pictures of small format for the documentation of the activity of artist. They moreover send us to the family photos rather than the act of public promotion of some works.
A general note of conceptual coherence, accidental or not, is given by the fact that the discourse on the margin of the condition of the artist aspiring towards assertion was materialized in a space dedicated to the young artists such as that of the gallery Atelier 35."
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 young romanian art 2009