Dan Perjovschi la Strozzina cultural Center

ART, PRICE AND VALUE - Contemporary Art and the Market (Part 1)

On a sunny afternoon in Florence i visited one of those exhibitions which lingers in your mind for days because of the questions and debates they set in motion inside your brain. The theme of the Art, Price and Value was selected a long time ago but given the current frenzy about the state of the art market it could not have been more timely nor thought-provoking. The exhibition, which closed a few days ago at the Strozzina cultural Center, explored how the economy has come to manipulate art production, affecting its every aspects ( .. )
Dan Perjovschi whose work i've seen in almost every single European city i visited last year was invited to cover the walls on one of the exhibition rooms with some of his 'site-specific and time-specific' comic strip style drawings. Incisive and spot-on, the drawings sharply sum up current political, ethical or cultural issues. For the CCCS exhibition, the artist's charcoal sketches comment on the paradoxes and absurdities of the contemporary art system ( .. )

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Dan Perjovschi, 2008. Image CCCS