Ion Grigorescu. In the body of the victim

With Ion Grigorescu, participating artist of the 6th Berlin Biennale,

Marta Dziewanska, Editor of the publication Ion Grigorescu. In the body of the victim (2010) and Kathrin Rhomberg, Curator of the 6th Berlin Biennale and the exhibition Ion Grigorescu. In the body of the victim 1969–2009, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2009

The talk is accompanied by the book launch:

Ion Grigorescu. In the body of the victim

Ed. by Marta Dziewanska

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2010

with texts by Cosmin Costinas, Georg Schöllhammer, Jan Verwoert, and Magda Radu

Ion Grigorescu, born in 1945 in Bucharest, was one of the first Romanian conceptual artists and advocates of anti-art, postulating a radical consolidation of artistic activities with quotidian life. He is the author of numerous films, photographic series, and actions recorded on film, as well as drawings and collages, which documented both his private life as well as the passage of the Romanian people from life under communist regimes to the realities of expansive capitalism. From a formalist perspective, Grigorescu’s oeuvre can be seen as a classical example of Central European experimental art, which the artist deploys in his search for a place within the extremely oppressive political system.

The publication is the fruit of the exhibition prepared in 2009 by Kathrin Rhomberg and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, which for the first time gathered works from 1969 to 2009. As part of the 6th Berlin Biennale Grigorescu’s film Sleep (2008), the photograph Topbottom (2008) and a diary of the artist are shown at KW.