[artinfo] Romanian Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012

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ROMANIAN PAVILION AT 13TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION VENICE 2012:

PLAY MINCU:  A GAME BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND OFFICIALDOM

The Play Mincu Pavilion is a semiotic, interactive installation
producing architectural stamps that speak about the two modes of the
architectural profession: the artistic aspect - aesthetic and
conceptual, and the bureaucratic, judicial aspect, which generates
social norms and values. The concept of the pavilion revolves around
the personality of Ion Mincu, creator of modern Romanian architecture,
who was also active in the political and the bureaucratic side of this
field. The exhibition itself has two designs: as a cultural device for
mediating contemporary Romanian architecture, and as an ironic
de-centering of the respect given to the architect’s profession in
some parts of the world. The postage stamp and the notary seal
embosser are the symbolic vectors of the exhibition. Visitors can play
with these, producing, for example, notary dry stamps that in real
life invest papers with official authority, but, in the context of the
Play-Mincu Pavilion, reframe bureaucracy and its normative forces
within a cultural act mediating architecture.


The Exhibition Play Mincu – Pavilion of Romania, the 13th
International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2012 has been
financed by Romania’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In
partnership with the Romanian Institute for Culture and humanistic
Research ov Venice and the Union of Architects.


The Biennale is open untill 25th of November 2012, 2.00 PM

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Contact details:
Curator:
Emil Ivanescu (iv_emil at yahoo.com)
+40748079921
Assistant curator/PR:
Ioana Calen  (ioana.calen at gmail.com)
+40727722644

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