Ciprian Mureșan

The conceptual practice of Ciprian Mureșan explores the relationship between art and social history in drawings and sculptures that act as a plural questioning of the notions of value and authorship. Over the last few years, Ciprian Mureșan’s work has revolved around reconstructing, deconstructing, erasing, and rewriting iconic symbols of the Western visual culture. This visual reservoir acts as an enormous accumulation of historical layers and images that the artist takes as raw material for his personal reading. Never employed as an instrument of direct notation, drawing functions for Mureșan in equations that unfold this mode of production in an ampler reflection, to do with visibility and loss, historical suspension, and forms in which the past is retrieved or confabulated.

Ciprian Mureșan, Choose…, 2005, DVD-PAL, 54’’, Courtesy of Plan B Gallery Cluj/ Berlin;