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Ciprian Mureşan
The work of Ciprian Mureșans (*1977 in Dej / Romania, lives in Cluj-Napoca / Romania) ranges from drawing and animation to photography, sculpture, and video. Taking the changes in the post-Communist states after 1989 as a starting point, his works focus on questions of cultural identity and processes of community building. In this process, he draws on the history of art and literature to arrive at idiosyncratic interpretations of the present.
Work Title
Year
Duration
Details
Collaboration / Compilation
Number
The Pioneer
2010
00:00:05
PAL, black/white, silent
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M018 02
In the animated film Pioneer, made especially for the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, a boy sniffs glue out of a plastic bag. It is one of a series of animations of drawning on single sheets of A4 paper that can be read as inventories of social changes in the New Europe. They are characterized by the simple means employed as a reference to the new economic conditions: using paper and pencil, fields of social problems are sketched schematically. The social critique in Mureșan’s works, which is typical of the Cluj Generation, goes far beyond the geopolitical situation in Southeastern Europe but without denying it either. This generation is working on a translocal redefinition of the role of contemporary art in transforming, traumatized societies.