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gheorghe rasovszky

Gheorghe Rasovszky (b. 1952, Suceava, Romania) lives and works in Bucharest, and graduated from the "Nicolae Grigorescu" Institute of Arts in 1977. Rasovszky is one of the most prolific new media artists in Romania, a representative of the signs of postmodernism in the 1980s and the post-communist transition in the Eastern Bloc, being an explorer of new paths and possibilities in painting, video art, photography, installation, and performance.

 

Since his emergence, Rasovszky has employed a plurality of languages and artistic formulas, occupying a unique territory in alternative and underground art throughout his career. In his artistic discourse, Rasovszky identifies with both punk elements and the frenzy of automatic writing of surrealist poetry, using sound, image, painting, and ready-made objects to establish an apparently eclectic and raw language, often critical and reactive, which has become emblematic of the atmosphere at the border between East and West.

 

Attentive to the radical transformations of the urban landscape, ideological and political ruptures, the drama of society in transition, and their effects on the human psyche, Rasovszky's recurring themes establish radical confrontations between absurdity and logic, between the grotesque and the aesthetic, creating a playful and poetically refined dialogue between the opposites of a utopian world.

 

Rasovszky has exhibited in important institutions and museums throughout his career, such as the Art Museum of Romania, the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), and has participated twice in the Venice Biennale.

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→Ruxandra Balaci, "Gigi the fisherman, the painter, the poet, the picturemaker," Artelier Magazine, no. 6, 2000-2001, Bucharest.

→Ruxandra Balaci, Gheorghe Rasovszky: "Gigi Rasovszky/Gigi the fisherman, the painter, the poet, the picturemaker (and nowadays the videast...)", Gheorghe Rasovszky "Terra Nova (the story)", Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs of Romania, Bucharest, 2001

 →Magda Cârneci, "The Visual Arts in Romania: 1945-1989," Polirom Publishing House, Iași, 2013.

 →Magda Cârneci, "The Turbo Effect," ARTA Magazine, Bucharest, Union of Visual Artists of Romania, no. 4-5/2012

→Călin Dan, "Letter to an (Almost) Lone Addressee," exhibition catalog Surrounding Figures, 1990

→Adrian Guță, "The 80s Generation in Visual Arts," Paralela 45 Publishing House, Pitești, 2008

→Adrian Guță, "A Journey Toward Rasovszky's Navel," Observator Cultural, no. 18, 2000

→Iosif Király, Simona Dumitriu, Simona Vilău, "Art Survey: Photography in Contemporary Context," ARTA Magazine, no. 6-7, 2012

→Igor Mocanu, "A DNA, So Post-Punk..." BeWhere, no. 13, 2012

→Cristiana Radu, "Gheorghe Rasovszky - Beauty Will Be Convulsive or Not at All," in "Photography in Romanian Art: Trends in Romania After 1989," UNARTE Publishing House, Bucharest, 2006

→Gheorghe Rasovsky, "Installation in Romania," ARTA, no. 1-2, 1993

→Gheorghe Rasovszky, "Fanatical Regnum: Study on Sympathetic Rites and Beings," Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, 1996

→Gheorghe Rasovszky, "From Accident to the West, from Dormitory to the Internet," Transitionland Romania, 2000

→Gheorghe Rasovsky, "Energia Patru," ARTA, no. 1/2011

→Alex Leo Șerban, "Gigi l'ingegnoso," Dilema, no. 435/2001

→Alex Leo Șerban, "Omphallos - L'objet mis a nu parses objections memes," ARTA, no. 2/2000, Bucharest

→Raluca Velisar, "RCA-Video Fragments," Transitionland Romania, 2000

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