The cartoon, annoys, offends us from the numbing conformity delintelecto critical activity. It is violence itself. But it also produces some satisfaction, a critical point that always leaves a sour taste but also an insight we might say something "nice."
few days ago we had the pleasant opportunity, here in Gainesville, to see the scribbles of cartoonist par excellence of our time: Dan Perjovschi. Born and educated in communist Romania under Ceausescu, and like most artists of his generation and the region, fully preconditioned by communist-totalitarian experience, Perjovschi has carved a name in the international art scene scathingly.
Cutting critical yet uncomplicated and flexible style, Perjovschi scribbles on the very walls of museums between door frames and main roundabouts. Striped and immaculate spaces of the MOMA in New York and several museums in Europe and Asia. Recently, we have your "marker" and crayons to leave a trace, a trace of their passage by this humble ephemeral southern town.
Topics of importance and radical views are the subjects of his drawings: globalization, capitalism, communism, Islam, global warming, the European Union, racism, poverty, hypocrisy, among others. Topics that are essential now more than ever, when deciding the "do" art. Themes and ideas that force the viewer to reflect at least a second global concerns about every day we decided to ignore or simply do not bother to understand.
Perjovschi is not a genius or an architect of the most clean and refined aesthetic, but pushes his fist or an energizing revitalization of consciousness. The doodle of the Romanian is not in the comic or commonplace, let alone as visually pleasing, but transcends, we get a bit uncomfortable and promotes a question that has been abandoned in the narrative the media and in everyday thinking group. So Perjovschi cartoons are worth more than many expressions that although they may be current and innovative, are poor and empty in terms of social revival, a consciousness, an ethos more awake.
I could share with his friend Gerardo Muñoz, art critic and student of literature, the opportunity to interview Dan and talking calmly about issues and areas of common interest: art and crisis, art and capitalism , Romanian art scene, the very active social and political Perjoschi (their successful performances in Communist Romania are key), and broader topics like the future of democracy in Eastern Europe, the influence of the West all respects on Romania and the region etc.
The interview was published in the journal Artpulse, magazine art critic based in Miami in mid-March. http://artpulsemagazine.com/
I wish to thank Dan Pervoshci to Gerardo Muñoz and Laura Freitas, assistant curator at the Harn Museum at the University of Florida in Gainesville for making this opportunity.
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