Ion Grigorescu
(Bucharest, 1945)- Around the table, 2015
- Drawing?, 2014
- Cortinas de la democracia, 2012
- The poor people are fending for themselves, 2009
- Wax Cherry Tree, 2009
- Returned Cart, 2009
- The Portuguese carpet, 2009
- Sleep, 2008
- Documenta 12, 2007
- Skin, 2006
- Study for Oedipus, 1985
- Portrait(s) of Ceausescu, 1980
- Selfsuperposeds, 1976-1979
- Dialogue with Ceauşescu, 1978
- Box, 1977
- Masculine – Feminine, 1976
- Electoral Meeting, 1975
Around the table, 2015
Video, colour, sound,
2 min 35 sec
ENG
With around the table Ion Grigorescu makes use of his eloquent poetic language of intimate bodily metaphors by which he investigates the relationship between the body and society in a powerful phenomenological and ritualized interpretation. This piece cleverly proposes to the viewer a multiple visual perception, that of the artist moving around a fixed object and then, by directing our vision towards an inner object, the viewer is immersed in another way of seeing and therefore a different sensory and bodily way of being in the world. A multiple vision is therefore provided through an embodied experience.
CAST
Con Around the table Ion Grigorescu hace uso de su elocuente lenguaje poético en el que a través de íntimas metáforas corporales investiga la relación entre el cuerpo y la sociedad con una interpretación ritualizada y fenomenológica de ambos elementos. De manera inteligente, esta pieza nos proponeuna percepción visual múltiple, aquella en la que el artista se mueve alrededor de un objeto fijo y, a continuación, dirige nuestra mirada hacia el interior de otro objeto en el mismo espacio, sumergiendo al espectador en otra forma de ver, una manera distinta, tanto sensorial como corporal de situarse en el mundo. De esta manera nos ofrece una visión múltiple a través de una experiencia corporal.
Video stills. Ion Grigorescu, "Around the table", 2015. Video, color, sound. 2 min 35 sec