News
19.05.2008
IRWIN artist group to present «East Art Map» at the PinchukArtCentre's Project Room from May 20 till June 8, 2008
IRWIN artist group (Slovenia) will present its communication project East Art Map at the PinchukArtCentre's Project Room (the 5th floor) from May 20 till June 8, 2008. At the exhibition, the group will present East Art Map Book, the Internet version of the project, Art Map of Eastern Europe light-box, and 2 video projects, as well.
On
May 21, 2008, at 18:00, the group members Andrej Savski and Roman Uranek
will give a lecture at the video-lounge (the 6th floor). Admission is free.
As
the authors put it, "the aim of East Art Map is to show the art of the whole
space of Eastern Europe, to take artists out
of their national frameworks and to present them in a unified scheme. We would
like to display the practical fundamental relations between Eastern European
artists there where they have not been documented, to draw a sort of a clear
and user-friendly map of the art of Eastern Europe
rather than to get some theoretical true thereof. History is not given. It has
to be constructed".
The
group worked over East Art Map project (www.eastartmap.org) from 1999 till 2005. The project
is a sort of a guidebook through the contemporary art of Eastern
Europe and its relations with Western arts, social and political
history.
Initially,
Irwin invited a group of 24 eminent art critics, curators and artists from the
different ex-socialist Central, Eastern and South-Eastern countries to perform
and to show 250 crucial art projects and artworks from their respective
countries. Upon the results thereof, in 2006, it published the project book.
The next step, technically as well as conceptually, is to transfer the EAM onto
Internet and to open it up for contributions by its users, the general public
and specialists being invited to participate in discussion, which may, for
sure, change the topography of the map: «..the map is composed and developed
from the dialogue that provides for a transparent procedure and facilitates
engagement in the project of different people with different opinions on the
project (Katrin Klingan, «Movement through unknown territory»).
