KANTUTA QUIROS & ALIOCHA IMHOff - Overlapping Biennial
KANTUTA QUIROS & ALIOCHA IMHOff - Overlapping Biennial
KANTUTA QUIROS & ALIOCHA IMHOff - Overlapping Biennial
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“The X key”, from the “Time Capsules” series (2009)<br />
polylite resin, lightbox, 10 x 10 x 10 cm<br />
courtesy of the artist<br />
„Time Capsules” ale lui Zoltan Bela interoghează autoritatea regimului comunist faţă de lumea copilăriei. Racheta-ascuţitoare şi cheia<br />
purtată la gât sunt două locuri comune ale memoriei colective aparţinând unei generaţii de şoimi ai patriei şi pionieri, manipulată de un<br />
regim autoritar. Produse de serie ale unei epoci dispărute, aceste capsule ale timpului au fost recuperate şi reconvertite artistic. Trecute<br />
în lumea produsului-marfă de tip capitalist, „Time Capsules” funcţionează simbolic precum ouăle de cristal prin care se poate circula<br />
într-un univers dispărut. Energia lor melancolică este conservată imponderabil în plasticul antidegradabil. Aceste forme deservesc<br />
conceptul Police the police fiind piese simbolice muzeificate ale pătrunderii şi manifestării puterii în universul copilăriei.<br />
Cosmin Năsui<br />
Zoltan Bela’s work – “Time Capsules” – interrogates the authority projected by the communist regime upon the childhood<br />
world. The sharpener-rocket and the key worn around the neck are two commonplaces of a collective memory which belonged<br />
to an entire generation represented by the “little falcons” national scouts and young pioneers, a generation manipulated by an<br />
authoritarian regime. Serial products of the past, these time capsules have been recovered and artistically reconverted. Transformed<br />
in capitalist commodity products, “Time Capsules” act symbolically as the crystal eggs through which one can travel in a<br />
past universe. Their melancholic energy is imponderably preserved in non-degradable plastic. These forms serve the Police the<br />
police concept as they are symbolic museum pieces of the authority’s intrusion and action in the childhood universe.<br />
Cosmin Năsui<br />
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