[Oberlist] RO @ The Power Plant presents Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central and Eastern Europe

[Igor Mocanu]

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Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová, still from "Manifesto of the Futurist
Woman (Let’s Conclude)," 2008.* *

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 *Rearview Mirror:*
*New Art from Central and Eastern Europe*
Co-produced by The Power Plant and the Art Gallery of Alberta

1 July–5 September 2011

*Opening:*
30 June, 8–11 PM

 *The Power Plant*
231 Queens Quay West
Toronto, Ontario
M5J 2G8 Canada

thepowerplant.org

 *Participating Artists:* Paweł Althamer (Poland), Anetta Mona Chişa
(Romania/Czech Republic) and Lucia Tkáčová (Slovakia), Gintaras Didžiapetris
(Lithuania), Dušica Dražić, (Serbia), Igor Eškinja (Croatia), Johnson &
Johnson (Estonia), Anna Kołodziejska (Poland), David Maljković (Croatia),
Ján Mančuška (Czech Republic), Dénes Miklósi (Romania), Alex Mirutziu
(Romania), Anna Molska (Poland), Ivan Moudov (Bulgaria), Ciprian Mureşan
(Romania), Deimantas Narkevičius (Lithuania), Roman Ondák (Slovakia), Anna
Ostoya (Poland), Taras Polataiko (Ukraine), Wilhelm Sasnal (Poland), Sislej
Xhafa (Kosova), Katarina Zdjelar (Serbia)

Curated by Christopher Eamon


The Power Plant is pleased to present *Rearview Mirror*, an exhibition that
brings together the work of a new generation of artists from Central and
Eastern Europe. The work of the twenty-two artists in the exhibition looks
to the past as well as to the future as through a rearview mirror. The
artists engage post-conceptual strategies and forms, and collectively
challenge accepted notions of Eastern Europe as a social, political and art
historical monolith. In an attempt to alter stereotypes of Eastern Art and
Easternness in general, the exhibition is a preliminary experiment and
dialogue in the post-socialist period.

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, one might expect great
changes in the cultural practices in the region known since the Yalta
agreement as the Eastern Bloc even though the political cultures and
histories of the various nations comprising it greatly diverge. Indeed this
is the case in many practices that have been selected for *Rearview Mirror*,
mainly for the artists’ choices of non-traditional forms that range in media
from video, installation and performance to sculpture and painting. Many of
the artists are self-taught or have worked outside of the academy (where
their non-traditional approaches would not have been supported). Other
artists worked through academic channels where previous avant-gardes
maintain their position within official institutions.

Although the specific political histories of the countries of the East are
inextricably linked to past aesthetic practices, in many exhibitions based
largely on a political geography there is a tendency to expect art to
demonstrate something about the relation between East and West. Instead this
exhibition does not do this and does not attempt to be all-inclusive or
encyclopedic. *Rearview Mirror* brings together the work of artists from
diverse backgrounds and histories to look at the non-traditional practices
of a younger generation of artists from the last decade, presenting an
opportunity to view art works by relative newcomers such as Ciprian Mureşan,
Gintaras Didžiapetris and Anna Molska in the context of some of their
contemporaries already known through international art circuits such as
Paweł Althamer, Roman Ondák and Wilhelm Sasnal.

Guest curator Christopher Eamon is a Canadian-born, New York-based
independent curator who has curated numerous international exhibitions and
edited and written for a wide number of publications. For over a decade
Eamon was curator of the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection in San
Francisco.

The exhibition is accompanied by a substantial publication edited by
Christopher Eamon that features commissioned texts by Zoran Erić, Raimundas
Malašauskas and Andrzej Szczerski. It is co-published by The Power Plant and
the Art Gallery of Alberta.

The exhibition will also be accompanied by a full slate of public programs
including a performative lecture by Anna Ostoya entitled *Jiggling and
Rustling* (2 July), a lecture on the exhibition by guest curator Christopher
Eamon (20 July), a screening of films by Wilhelm Sasnal (10 August), and
regular performances of Roman Ondák’s *The Stray Man*.


*Image above:
Courtesy of the artists and Christine König Galerie, Vienna.


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