Romanian art in Venice

Low-budget monuments are on display at the Romanian pavilion at this year's Venice Biennial. Stefana Sabin writes that this is "a political work". The exhibition aims to "explore the role of art in public life, as well as the official role of art. How can one design a monument as an artistic element that doesn't pay tribute to a military victory or religious sacrifices? How can a monument trigger a collective trauma and at the same time help to heal a society's wounds? Cristi Pogacean exhibits an ironic obelisk, Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor provoke a discussion about architecture as a dual process of construction and destruction... Nowhere else is art being presented as it is in Venice this summer. And because not all countries have a pavilion at the Biennial, numerous exhibitions are being held in the city, in renovated palaces, in cafés and in shops. In this way art is creeping into everyday life and subtly transforming it."

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