Recently I was lucky to see Dan Perjovschi's exhibition at the Moma in New York City.

I was quite impressed to see that a Romanian artist who does very direct political commentary about capitalism had his own presonal exhibit in one of the - or should I say THE - biggest, most famous museum of modern art in the world.

I was not expecting to see his art when I decided to go to the museum and it was quite a nice surprise. He drew a series of 30 very large drawings on a huge wall of the museum that could be seen from many points in the museum. So, no matter where you were in the museum you could always see his drawings looking back at you and it made the whole experience of being there completely different and it made you question yourself and where you were in the world: New York City - one of the richest cities in the world.

I think this exhibit in the context of the Moma was quite powerful and I really enjoy his style of drawings. I got the feeling from them that we are all in the same boat with capitalism. No one is NOT part of the problem if they are not working on a solution.

So to summarize although I think his commentary is a bit naive and not so deep, I think his drawing get to the point of the issues and they do speak a quite international language. I thought it was very inspiring and I love when art can be so simple yet so powerful. I think there is real beauty in this.

I would be curious to know what you think of it.

::::::::::::::::::::::::: ciao : jade

Here are some cool links to check out:

*see more drawings - check out the newspaper created for the exhibition - print and share href="http://moma.org/exhibitions/2002/projects/projects85/Projects85newspaper.pdf

*You Tube video of him drawing at Moma:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkXXNGfx_3k

*photo of Dan J drawing the Eastern Europe drawing:
http://fromatod.blogosfere.it/images/2_resized.jpg

*official Moma web site with article:
http://moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=3956

*other links to see more drawings:
http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/view.pl?img=1165590527b.jpg

http://permettetemi.blogspot.com/2007/05/projects-85-dan-perjovschi.html

http://www.artnet.de/magazin/kommentar/winkler/winkler02-16-06_detail.asp?picnum=4