Pavilion UniCredit (PU) occupies a unique space, at the ground floor of a communist-era apartment complex, within a former bank, and opposing the Romanian government building. With the financial backing of UniCredit ?iriac Bank, and Pilsner Urquell, strangely enough, PU is billed as an
independent space, a space for the production and research . . . It is a space of the critical thinking, and it promotes an artistic perspective implying the social and political involvement of the art and of the cultural institutions.
Its opening exhibit, STATEMENT, celebrates PU as square-one for contemporary art, a landmark victory in a specifically Romanian battle against a host of historical losses and marginalizations. Focusing on the space’s potential – “In Romanian: declarara?ie de credin??. What the place want to be, and what it might be.” – curator Lia Perjovschi drafts a plan to break
the vicious circle built up out of financial humiliation, bureaucratic imbecility, cultural ignorance and lack of understanding, institutional autism, the reduction to the state of always asking and always being rejected without any explanations, and the state of “everything against you”. STATEMENT uses the “Do-It-Yourself” resources that the curator-researcher has coalesced for the last twenty years.
The STATEMENT catalogue is avaialable for download here [PDF]. PU is a collaboration between Pavilion Magazine and the Bucharest Biennial.
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