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Authors: LAURA PAVEL.
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This paper examines, from the interdisciplinary perspective of cultural analysis, the ways in which several artists belonging to the so-called “Cluj School,” such as Adrian Ghenie, Victor Man and Mircea Cantor, share a common need for recontextualizing the “aura” of Dada in their paintings, performances and installations. An apocalyptical reappraisal of the Dada movement is to be found in Ghenie’s famous paintings Dada Is Dead and Duchamp’s Funeral I and II, as well as in his immersive installation The Dada Room, while some of Victor Man’s paintings and installations, and Mircea Cantor’s film Deeparture revive the Neo-Dada artistic subversion of Fluxus and Joseph Beuys’s ironic pedagogical performances. Following a conceptual scheme that blends art theory, cultural criticism and anthropology, I resort to Bruno Latour’s notion of “composition” and to his method of “compositionism,” conceived as an alternative to critique, in order to analyze how the “Cluj School” approaches the Avant-garde’s paradoxical legacy.
Keywords: Dada, Fluxus, archive, Bruno Latour, composition, Adrian Ghenie, Victor Man, Mircea Cantor.
References:
Gommel Stefanie, Art Dictionary: Adrian Ghenie. The Dark Side of Art, 4 November 2013, at http://www.hatjecantz.de/adrian-ghenie-5952-1.html, consulted on June 11, 2016.
Groys Boris, Art Power, Cambridge, MA & London: The MIT Press, 2008.
Latour Bruno, “An Attempt at Writing a Compositionist Manifesto.” New Literary History, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, 41 (3), pp. 471-490.
Radu Magda, Adrian Ghenie: Rise&Fall. Ghenie in conversation with Magda Radu, Flash Art, no. 269, November-December 2009, at http://www.artscene.ro/_inthepress/index.php?id=1562, consulted on June 11, 2016.
Street Ben. ”Letter from London: Dead as a Dada.” Art21 Magazine, 30 June, 2009, at http://blog.art21.org/2009/06/30/letter-from-london-dead-as-a-dada/#.V4K9dlR97IU, consulted on June 14, 2016.
Published Online: 2016-10
References:
Gommel Stefanie, Art Dictionary: Adrian Ghenie. The Dark Side of Art, 4 November 2013, at http://www.hatjecantz.de/adrian-ghenie-5952-1.html, consulted on June 11, 2016.
Groys Boris, Art Power, Cambridge, MA & London: The MIT Press, 2008.
Latour Bruno, “An Attempt at Writing a Compositionist Manifesto.” New Literary History, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, 41 (3), pp. 471-490.
Radu Magda, Adrian Ghenie: Rise&Fall. Ghenie in conversation with Magda Radu, Flash Art, no. 269, November-December 2009, at http://www.artscene.ro/_inthepress/index.php?id=1562, consulted on June 11, 2016.
Street Ben. ”Letter from London: Dead as a Dada.” Art21 Magazine, 30 June, 2009, at http://blog.art21.org/2009/06/30/letter-from-london-dead-as-a-dada/#.V4K9dlR97IU, consulted on June 14, 2016.
Published Online: 2016-10
