Dan Perjovschi

Dan Perjovschi (* 1961 in Sibiu, Romania) is a Romanian artist and editor of the magazine revista 22

Biography

Education

At the age of 10 years Perjovschis was discovered artistic talent, and he was sent to a school for gifted children. His Master of Fine Arts, he obtained in 1985 at the George Enescu Conservatory of Fine Arts in Iasi. The Romanian education system focused at that time on the promotion of special talents specifically oriented schools.

As the political situation in Romania changed by liberal ideologies of the 1960s were replaced by autocracy of Nicolae Ceauşescu, Perjovschi realized that painting could not play to meet the spreading social disaster within the Romanian population. The artist started drawing, which he had previously used solely for ridiculing his teacher than to see his medium.

Work as Romanian artists

One of his first actions as an artist was Red Apples (German: Red apples ) in 1988, for which he wrapped the entire setup his apartment in white paper on which to transmit drawings and short texts. This should serve as a response to the increasingly repressive censorship in communist Romania. Dan and his wife Lia lived in this state less than two weeks and only invited friends to show them the work. At the same time Perjovschi joined with a group of alternative artists in Oradea under the name Studio 35 in contact.

1991 Perjovschi staged an exhibition that the Red Apple's very similar. It was entitled Nameless Mood ( German: Nameless mood ) and was part of the first free arts festival, Europe East Zone, in Timişoara. For the event Perjovschi transformed the rooms of the caretaker in a work of art from his own drawings, which he also transferred again onto white paper. Perjovschi calls this the starting point of participation in activism, which he joined with his wife in the following years. His desire was to undermine the elitists in the art by his art would exercise in modesty was.

In the same year Perjovschi worked in the editorial team of appearing in Bucharest independent weekly magazine revista 22 This was in the early 1990s in Romania as the most prestigious intellectual journal. As inspiration Perjovschi serves its environment. Latest news - both globally and locally, rumors, Sightseeing, jokes, television articles and much more are included in the development of his works.

Work as an international artist

1994 Perjovschi created two series of drawings: Postcards from America (German: Postcards of America) and Wonderful World (German: Wonderful World ). Postcards from America is the result of his travels across the United States, which he was able to carry thanks to a grant from the USIA. The works he created during the trip were issued with a total of 500 postcards large drawings in the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Wonderful world is composed of several major modules A4, wherein each of the drawings is composed of about 20; a flipbook similar. The work consists of two main complexes: a Romanian part, which contains 30 elements, and an American part, which contains 100 elements. Due to the easy transportability Perjovschi it was possible to work anywhere in his works, such as in hotel rooms or on trains.

1990 mitgründeten Dan and Lia the Contemporary Art Archive (German: Contemporary Art Archives ) in Bucharest. Today, Lia Perjovschi cares mainly about the organization.

That Perjovschi began his drawings to be transferred directly to walls hung with the fact that he wanted to work faster, more mobile and more direct. This he had more freedom of improvisation. His drawings it will now transfer with black markers. At the end of each of his exhibition but these are again swept in the respective wall color. To get his drawings alive, he recovered it again and again with different contexts and elements.

1995 Perjovschi staged an exhibition entitled Anthroprogramming (German: Human Programming) in New York's Franklin Furnace Gallery. Here he recorded an entire wall of the gallery a grid and put in each field resulting a human head. In 1999, he covered the floor of the Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with its simple drawings. The exhibition was entitled rEST (German: rest ) and this time should be the Annihilator of the artwork visitors by every single one of them was carrying a piece of drawing on his shoe back home.

1997 Perjovschi was again loaded to the USA to teach for a semester at Duke University.

In 2003 he began the walls of the complex of the former Koksfabrik, the coking plant Zollverein in Essen, to be covered with drawings. This exhibition was titled White Chalks, Dark Issues (English: White chalk, dark problems ) and spread to the entire first floor of the factory. To transfer Perjovschi white chalk around his drawings used on the moldy walls. The work is similar to the work of prison inmates have had and took three months to complete.

As Perjovschi also its 2003 Urban Drawings ( German: Urban drawings) used in the city of Kassel, these were mainly referred to as streets graffiti although Perjovschi with both the counter with Western Comics denies any relationship.

Let 1993 Perjovschi in connection with the festival zone Europe East Romania the word tattooed on his left arm. The same, he could be removed in 2003 at the Kunsthalle in Kassel Fridericanum again in order to mark the moment when he became an international artist. Perjovschi staged international exhibitions in Europe and overseas. 2005 Perjovschi led an exhibition, Naked Drawings ( German: Nude drawings), the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and in the summer of 2007, he had another exhibition at the MoMA in New York, under the title What Happened To Us? ( dt: What happened to us?). In his drawings Perjovschi want to avoid by using only a few strokes and details possible confusion in understanding. Its main goal is to reproduce current affairs with irony and wit. Since July 2009 Perjovschi comments for the art magazine art each month a theme from the arts and culture in his own character series "Just draw it!".

2010 showed the Kunstverein Ulm his drawings, which announced Perjovschi on his website under the title Out of Recession into Depression.

He lives and works in Bucharest.