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Virgin Forest

The exhibition stands on the border between art and journalism. It is just as much political activism as a purely poetic appeal to retain our relationship with wild and untouched nature. Using the results from his research conducted at a forestry school, Cobilanschi draws attention to the stereotypes that exist in our thinking. His aim is to initiate a discussion about the relationship between forests and capitalism.

In his journalism practice, Claudiu Cobilanschi adopts a certain agitation method; then, as an artist, he crosses media boundaries and presents to his audience the entirety and complexity of an issue in relation to himself as a human. His works thus remain very personal and, just on the basis of their nature, almost physical activism to achieve a utopian word, which is in fact unattainable. He expands a discussion about socio-political problems, the main theme being the relationship between nature and capitalism.

artistsClaudiu Cobilanschi
curatorsNikola Brabcová, Karin Šrubařová
placePrototyp
tags
castClaudiu Cobilanschi
cameraJan Vidlička
soundJan Vidlička
editingJan Vidlička
interviewJan Vidlička
categoryReports
published9. 11. 2016
languageČesky / English
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The concept of the exhibition is based on the ideological convergence of the work of Catherine Radosa and Jaroslav Varga, which consists in revealing the physical and symbolic traces of the past. Both artists examine these relics of bygone times and eras from the perspective of collective memory and the mechanisms of its storage. A vacant lot is an empty space, a gap left by a past situation that can be filled again. The installation Colonne / Révolution captures the constant cycle of the monument in a triple projection. The period of the revolutionary Paris Commune is still a problematic period in France, similar to the period of socialism in our country: it has been and continues to be reinterpreted, tabooed, or marginalized.