Join us for the screening of Anna Marziano's Mainstream featuring the renowned Romanian artist and for Q&A with Dan Perjovschi about his drawing, beliefs and life.
Mainstream (France / 2009 / 25 mins) conducts us through the streets of Paris, accompanied by Dan Perjovschi. His recent exhibition in Paris provides the centerpiece for the film, but the artist is also followed as he wanders the streets of the city, observing and recording incessantly in his black notebook. An open consideration of the work of an artist who embraces the ephemeral and performative nature of his work.
Dan Perjovschi is a visual artist mixing drawing, cartoon and graffiti in artistic pieces drawn directly on the walls of museums and art spaces around the world. His drawings comment on current political, social and cultural issues. He is the recipient of the George Maciunas Prize in 2004.
Selected solo exhibitions: (all) over and over, KIASMA Helsinki (2009), What Happens to US?, MoMa New York (2007), The Room Drawing, Tate Modern London (2006). Selected group exhibitions: The Spectacle of the Everyday, the 10th Lyon Biennial (2009), Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, Venice Biennale 2007, Magelanic Cloud, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2007).
Dan Perjovschi will be in conversation with Tate curator Maeve Polkinhorn.
The event is organised by the Romanian Cultural Institute and is part of the London International Documentary Film Festival 2010.
When: 4 May 2010, 7 pm; Where: Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium; For tickets call 020 7887 8888 or book online.