Ciprian Muresan " Incorrigible Believers"
David Nolan Gallery
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Ciprian Muresan recontextualizes and deconstructs the works of well known literary and art historical figures. Working conceptually in all media, Muresan has appropriated works by Yves Klein, Eugène Ionesco, and Andrei Tarkovsky. For the gallery's project room, Muresan will present a new sculptural installation entitled Incorrigible Believers, consisting of miniature wooden church pews made for children, leading up to the display of Muresan's written ending to Franz Kafka's unfinished 1926 novel, "The Castle." Muresan reinterprets the meanings of the original text, and brings up questions regarding ideology and the formation of collective and individual identity.
Ciprian Muresan (b. 1977, Dej, Romania) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Cluj-Napoca in 2000. He was recently included in the exhibition, The Generational: Younger Than Jesus at the New Museum in New York (2009), and his work has been featured other group shows at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2002), the Athens Biennial (2007), and the Museum Folkwang, Essen (2008). He is the co-editor of VERSION magazine and editor of IDEA magazine. Muresan represented Romania at the Venice Biennale in 2009 with a video work, "Dog Luv."
[Image: Ciprian Muresan "Incorrigible Believers" (2009) installation]
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from December 10, 2009 to January 23, 2010