Notes

Busta argento

Publisher Note

From static oblivion traces, with circular, nearly spiral movements, the progression, both expansive and inclusive, of Grigorescu’s work, which, starting from the intimacy of a room or a kitchen, opens itself up to the structure of a house with its inhabitants or to the architecture of an entire city with its population, while moving through the urban transformations of a strongly rural and traditional Romania, in order to return and inscribe itself into the space of the body and into that of the world, in a complete superimposition (or indeed doubling) of micro and macrocosm. By enlarging his own field of vision, Grigorescu in effect circumscribes and simultaneously absorbs elements of his surrounding reality, showing us a continuity between art and life which translates itself, inside the frame of an image, into an interplay between work and work space or space of daily experience: Grigorescu’s act of dissidence is not an outcry of provocation, nor is it extreme or ostentatious; it is an anti-aesthetic operation which uses experimentation and rough or limited techniques to uncover the fiction of art and to denounce the artifice of representation, leaving us with the ambiguity between truth and falsehood, not only within the process of creation, but also within society. There is no trespass, Grigorescu’s performances are part of an ongoing and “contained” interrogation of the relationship between the body and the space which the book is trying to match with the choice of its images whose measured surface tries to “keep inside” all that’s possible: the composition appears dense yet fluid, “cursive”, though never imposing.

Artists’ Book

From static oblivion

by Ion Grigorescu

Publisher
Release Place Röbel, Germany
Paris, France
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2016
Credits
Writer: Giuliana Prucca
Designer: Vito Raimondi
Artist: Ion Grigorescu
Printrun 1000
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-2-9541974-2-5
Inscription numbered
Original Price 43.00 EUR
Work  
Subform Photobook
Topics Europe, Romania
Methods Action Performance, Drawing, Films, Photography, Writing
Language Romanian, English
Format Paperback
Dimensions 16.0 × 30.0 cm
Weight 2,000 gram
Pages 216
Technique Offset (Color + Bw), Silkscreen