Accounts of Too Loud a Solitude
Artists: Alexandru Antik, Imre Baász, Rudolf Bone, Ioan Bunuș, Károly Elekes, Károly Ferenczi, Aladár Garda, Dorel Găină, Anikó Gerendi, György Jovián, Gyöngyi Kerekes Ujvárossy, Karoy Kovács, Sándor Krizbai, Árpád Nagy, Miklós Onucsán, Dan Perjovschi, Radu Procopovici, Decebal Scriba, Zoltán Szabó, Gábor Szörtsey, László Ujvárossy
The current exhibition starts from the research underlying the book O singurătate destul de zgomotoasă. Practici artistice neconvenționale în Atelier 35 Oradea și gruparea MAMŰ din Târgu-Mureș, 1978-1989 [Too Loud a Solitude. Unconventional Artistic Practices at Atelier 35 Oradea and MAMŰ Group in Târgu-Mureș, 1978-1989] (2022) and presents a selection of artworks and documentation on unconventional exhibitions, actions, and episodes that made up the activity of some of the artists who were members of the art collectives in the two centers. Aiming to reflect the diversity of their practice and the pursuit of these artists to innovate the visual language departing from the traditional media—in a predominantly conformist and conservative social and professional environment, a climate that was to some degree infused with the official ideology of the times—, the exhibition presents the variety of physical, social, and conceptual spaces created by the artists through their interventions and experiments. From the institutional space to the street, the workplace, the home, the artist’s studio, the natural environment, and the postal correspondence up to the “top secret” space from where the political police was conducting its close surveillance, they were all intersected, inhabited, and marked by the artists’ actions, in various degrees of visibility and with various intensities. None of these spaces was clearly delimited, their boundaries dissolving into each other’s to make a vast area of maneuver, negotiations, and adaptations, where art was happening and the limits that confined its territory were being questioned and contested. […] – Mădălina Brașoveanu
