Subversive Excerpts

The exhibition Subversive Excerpts devotes itself to experimental and conceptual art practices that had established between the nineteen-sixties and eighties in Europe and South America under the influence of military dictatorships and communist regimes.

The focus of the show is on artistic practices that not only radically question the conventional concept of art, the institutions, and the relationship between art and public, but that have, at the same time, subversively thwarted structures of censorship and opposed the existing systems of power.

Participating Artists: Carlos ALTAMIRANO (CL); Collective Actions (USSR); Taller E.P.S. Huayco (PE); Ion GRIGORESCU (RO); Claus HÄNSEL (DDR); Indigo csoport (HU); Letícia PARENTE (BR); Luis PAZOS (AR); Dan PERJOVSCHI (RO); Pere PORTABELLA (ES); Ruth Wolf- REHFELDT (DDR); Herbert RODRIGUEZ (PE); Horacio ZABALA (AR).

Related events organized by the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest:
Screenings; lectures by Ileana PINTILIE, Iris DRESSLER, Hans D. CHRIST.
12 February, 2010. 5-9pm.
Budapest, Kmety György utca 27.


Subversive Excerpts is part of the project 'Art under conditions of dictatorial regimes', carried out by Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Arteleku, San Sebastian, and C3 - the Center for Culture and Communication Foundation, Budapest, supported by the European Commission.

Curators: Ramón Castillo / Paulina Varas Fernando Davis Cristina Freire Sabine Hänsgen Miguel Lopez / Emilio Tarazona Ileana Pintilie Teleaga Valentín Roma / Daniel García Andújar Annamária Szőke / Miklós Peternák Anne Thurmann-Jajes.

Changing the Model of Revolt
Political Practices / Molecular Aesthetics in Peru (70s-90s)
a presentation by Miguel López Trafo Gallery; 29 January, 2009; 5pm
The presentation is in English.

Miguel López is a visual artist, researcher and independent curator who lives and works between Barcelona and Lima – where he is a member of Espacio La Culpable, a flexible, critical platform for contemporary art.
Subversive Excerpts - Experimental and conceptual art practices established between the nineteen-sixties and eighties in Europe and South America under the influence of military dictatorships and communist regimes

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