Presenting work by fourteen international artists, across a range of media including sculpture, painting, film, video and performance, Transmission Interrupted looks at how contemporary artists disrupt prevailing forms of registering and representing the world.
The exhibition will be showing Cantor's Monument for the end of the world, 2006 and Perjovschi's Timeline: Romanian Culture from 500BC until today, 1997-2007, which the artist will be installing as a site-specific wall work in the gallery.
The exhibition will also feature the work of Pilar Albarracin, Adel Abdessemed, Yto Barrada, Jem Cohen, Jimmie Durham, Simryn Gill, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, Michael Rakowitz, Ernesto Salmeron, Yara El-Sherbini and Sislej Xhafa.
A free tour of the exhibition, led by Suzanne Cotter, Senior Curator at Modern Art Oxford, will take place at 11.00 am on Saturday 18 April.
Mircea Cantor lives and works in Paris and Cluj, Romania.
Monument for the end of the world has not been shown in the UK before and will build on Modern Art Oxford's gallery. The work takes the form of a city model composed of fragile pieces of wood, featuring a crane from which wind chimes are suspended. The work alludes to the anticipated commemoration of a future event.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Ciel Variable, Frac Champagne-Ardennes, Reims, France (2007), The Title Is the Last Thing, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2006) and Burn to be Burnt, GAMEC, Bergamo, Italy (2006).
Group exhibitions include the 4th Berlin Biennial for contemporary art, Berlin (2006), Power Play, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas (2007), Brave New Worlds, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2007).
In 2004 Cantor was awarded the Prix Paul Ricard S.A. He was nominated for the 2008 Artes Mundi Prize. Cantor is co-founder and co-editor of the cultural review Version founded in 2001 at Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Lia Perjovschi was born in 1961 in Sibiu, Romania. She lives and works in Bucharest.
Perjovschi's multidisciplinary practice recovers, collects, and disseminates information that has been inaccessible to Romania until 1989. She has produced a highly developed personal archive of objects, diagrams, texts, images, and film that feature in her work. As part of Transmission Interrupted Modern Art Oxford will display Perjovschi's Romanian Timeline: 500BC to the Present, 1997 -2007, an interconnected system comprising notes, drawings and ephemera with which she parallels the officially recognised history of Romanian culture with herown personal time line. This work was shown at the recent Sydney Biennial and her participation in the exhibition will build on recent work presented at Tate Modern in 2007.
Mircea Cantor and Lia Perjovschi's participation in the exhibition is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute.
When: 18 April - 21 June 2009;
Opening times: Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 12pm - 5pm, Monday - closed, 10, 12 and 13 April - closed
Where: Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street,Oxford OX1 1BP
Admission: free.
