The Nasher Museum presents an unprecedented mid-career retrospective of the work of Romanian artists Dan Perjovschi and Lia Perjovschi. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, videos, installations and conceptual art from 1985 to the present, as well as newly commissioned works.
The exhibition is curated by Kristine Stiles, a Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. Internationally recognized for her scholarship and publications on contemporary art, performance, and trauma, she is the leading authority on the Perjovschis' art.
The exhibition runs from August 23, 2007, to January 6, 2008 at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Two events launching the exhibition:
Wednesday, August 29th, 6-8 pm OPENING with the participation of the artists Featuring a presentation by Andrei Codrescu
Thursday, August 30th, 5:30-7:30 pm
PANEL: "Perspectives on Romanian Culture: Then and Now"
Co-organized by the Nasher Museum and the Romanian Cultural Institute, with the participation of Dan and Lia Perjovschi. Moderated by Kristine Stiles, the panel will include:
The show comes ten years after Stiles brought the Perjovschis to Duke University in 1997 where they taught for a semester in Duke's Department of Art and Art History, and had their first two-person exhibition in the United States. In May, Dan Perjovschi's first solo show in the United States opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Lia Perjovschi created a large-scale installation at the Art Museum in Lichtenstein.
Born in 1961, Dan & Lia Perjovschi create work that resides at the nexus of art, society and politics. Both artists belong to the first avant-garde movement following the 1989 Romanian Revolution. Dan is internationally renowned for his large and small scale drawing installations of hundreds of figures that comment on local, national and international cultural and current affairs. Lia is well-known for her performance and conceptual art.
