Mihai Nicodim Gallery
Alex Mirutziu
CRITIQUE ON HOW TEMPLES MOVE FASTER THAN THEIR
SHADOWS
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 11, 6 -9 PM
Live Performance starts at 7 PM
Exhibition Dates: December 11, 2010 – February 4, 2011
Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition and
performance in the US of artist Alex Mirutziu.
Alex Mirutziu's practice extends over a wide range of media and activities, including:
writing, photography, media-critical video installations and performance as well as
various critical and curatorial projects. His work endows social
processes with ephemeral emergence as main constructs in an attempt to reconfigure
the relation between information and form, psycho-physical language and content,
challenging origins and meaning. His most recent work implies a recuperation of the
subject between structured death and migration of suffering.
In recent state of affairs, the artist’s work opened up fields of discussion embedded with
what he call ideological practices allocated by culture, practices that lie in the verb status
of art – in its immediacy, and ability to generate meaning and information within
difference, between actuality and potentiality, between what is seen and what is said,
what is done and what can be done - questioning how ideas are affected by the contexts
in which they are produced.
Following up components of communication, Mirutziu’s work moves outward and inward
in a kind of romantic discursive model questioning its purpose and its
uselessness, being left as poetic and imaginative space, as a space for
possibility and potentiality - poetic because each form captures a fragment of the
world and, by referring to each other, creates a pure event. The artist is interested in
articulations and half articulations of the idea of art as a structure in relation to its
contemplation taken as an architectural act, juxtaposed to time and language.
The idea that contemplation is a matter of concern that becomes a matter of fact
through various complicated entanglements and problematic discourses. Each
thought is an event that will never be repeated; its fleeting presence keeps it on
the verge of being lost forever, having the same thought can only take place as a
separate event, captured in its own moment in time, questioning its immediate
irrelevance in dynamic present. These particular territories refer to a kind of
relationship to form that undergoes references to the masochistic power to
disappear, a meditation on the economy of absence that troubles the idea of
occupation of space that can never become traumatic, since it shifted in the idea
of a chronic occupation of time. This body of work traces the degree to which one
revisits emptiness, and certain particular cognitive operations of what memory
does to thought and its shadow.
The exhibition opens Saturday, December 11, 2010 at Mihai Nicodim Gallery, 3143
S. La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016, with a live performance of the artist
that starts at 7 PM.
Venue: Mihai Nicodim Gallery
3143 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90016
T: 310.838.8884
www.nicodimgallery.com
Company/Artist: Alex Mirutziu
Duration: 35 min
Concept/Idea: Alex Mirutziu
Direction: Alex Mirutziu
Choreography: Alex Mirutziu
Artist(s)/ Interpretation: Alex Mirutziu
Scenography: Alex Mirutziu
Sound/ Music: Flok
Light Design: ZDB, Eira33, Alex Mirutziu
Video: Alex Mirutziu
Costumes: Alexandru Nicolae, Alex Mirutziu, Rulys, Mihut Boscu, Eugen Rosca
Texts: Alex Mirutziu
With the Support of: Sabot Gallery, Cluj
Description of performance:
Exceptional performance on the humanity of a terrible love; a shared architecture,
muscled by words and rude liberty, about ‘fixing of the body’ over the exterior milieu, with
the heart poised above the gut, a constructed metaphor for the staticism of love, that
sometimes you just have to tell the whole world about it.
Other observations:
The live performance contains nudity.
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