The Neck (Gâtul)*
Description
Medium: C Print, grafitti paint intervention
Size: 100 x 84 cm (106 x 90 cm with frame)
Provenance
Private Collection, Belgium
The work is accompanied by a certificate of auhtenticity signed by the artist (prior to the grafitti spray intervention)
Location
Bucharest
Description
Ion Grigorescu started his work in the early ‘70s in the oppressive context of Ceauşescu’s regime. Working in relative isolation during the regime, he produced many series in the intimacy of his studio or in nature, which he only exhibited after the 1989 Revolution. His performances, films and photographs focus mainly on the body and politics. His work gained wider recognition in the 1990s, after the fall of the dictatorship, and along with fellow Eastern European artists such as Mladen Stilinović, Jiří Kovanda, Július Koller, he is recognized for his role in cultivating resistance and underground art. Ion Grigorescu is also one of the artists who have radically and conceptually illustrated contemporary concerns in perfect synchronicity with his time. In the last years, by using again the body as a tool in photography, performance and even sculpture, he examined it in contemporary contexts and different postures – the worker, the artist.
Exhibitions
The work was showcased in the Performing History, Romanian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2011
Literature
The work is featured in the Catalogue of the Romanian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2011
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