Romanian Pavilion

The Seductiveness of the Interval
Romanian Pavilion – 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Artists: Ştefan Constantinescu, Andrea Faciu, Ciprian Mureşan
Commissioner: Monica Morariu
Curator: Alina Şerban
Exhibition design: studioBASAR -Alex Axinte & Cristi Borcan

In the period 7 June – 22 November 2009, the 53rd Venice Art Biennale will unfold, under the generic heading Making Worlds. The Seductiveness of the Interval, the project that will represent Romania this year at the Venice Art Biennale, was selected following the competition organised by the Ministry of Culture, Religions and National Heritage in late January.

Andrea Faciu - EXUBERANTIA suspended, 2009
Mixed –media installation (irrigation system, plants, audio system)
Variable dimensions
Drawings and preparatory sketches
Sound installation in collaboration with Guillaume Blondeau
Courtesy of the artist

The winning team, made up of artists Ştefan Constantinescu, Andrea Faciu, Ciprian Mureşan, curator Alina Şerban, and architects Alex Axinte and Cristi Borcan (studio BASAR), offers a reflection on the exhibition as a semantically mobile autonomous spatial and temporal structure, which suspends quotidian experience in order to enclose spectators within a temporal and spatial interval with which they become eventually complicit.
Directing a constrictive exhibition route, marked by stage-set and mise-en-scène elements, artists Ştefan Constantinescu, Andrea Faciu and Ciprian Mureşan pursue an unfolding of the viewing experience that reaches a crescendo, establishing a new relationship between objects and space, between the viewer’s time and the exhibition time. The artists’ projects (subjectively) juxtapose events, real-life situations, and stories, whose narrative and discursive structure recalls the world of theatre, film and literature.
Delimiting a reality that is theatrical and temporal par excellence, The Seductiveness of the Interval sets out to draw the subject into a new reality, not just as an observer, inviting him to identify a network of motivations, causal links between multiple landscapes, sequences and transitions presented within the exhibition, in order ultimately to ensure the coherence of the whole.

Romanian Pavilion 53rd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia