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FLORIN MITROI: CH. I: WINTER
Curated by Erwin Kessler
The most discreet and decent Romanian artist, Florin Mitroi, left the most indiscreet and violent work. What to do with it? Should we hide it, ignore it, classify it as a pathology? Shall we burn it? This seems like the preamble to a scandal, not a revelation. And yet it is about the most electrifying revelation of Romanian art in the last 30 years.
Between 1961 and 2002, Florin Mitroi was a professor at the Nicolae Grigorescu Art Institute in Bucharest. During the first 15 years, he engaged (like any serious and harmless artist of the time) in that modernist routine called “contemporary art”, producing pleasant works, dealing with tolerable subjects, having zero impact on life – a mere intellectual decoration. It was the ideal recipe of any impostor, who professionally claimed the vocation to reach, precisely, the pension. Florin Mitroi was a typical citizen without attributes in the communist system.
But suddenly, exactly 50…
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FLORIN MITROI: CH. I: WINTER
Curated by Erwin Kessler
The most discreet and decent Romanian artist, Florin Mitroi, left the most indiscreet and violent work. What to do with it? Should we hide it, ignore it, classify it as a pathology? Shall we burn it? This seems like the preamble to a scandal, not a revelation. And yet it is about the most electrifying revelation of Romanian art in the last 30 years.
Between 1961 and 2002, Florin Mitroi was a professor at the Nicolae Grigorescu Art Institute in Bucharest. During the first 15 years, he engaged (like any serious and harmless artist of the time) in that modernist routine called “contemporary art”, producing pleasant works, dealing with tolerable subjects, having zero impact on life – a mere intellectual decoration. It was the ideal recipe of any impostor, who professionally claimed the vocation to reach, precisely, the pension. Florin Mitroi was a typical citizen without attributes in the communist system.
But suddenly, exactly 50…
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