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Paradise Lost Open to the public: Press conference: Curator: Tímea Junghaus Artists: Daniel Baker, Tibor Balogh, Mihaela Ionela Cimpeanu, Gabi Jimenez, András Kállai, Damian Le Bas, Delaine Le Bas, Kiba Lumberg, Omara, Marian Petre, Nihad Nino Pušija, Jenő André Raatzsch, Dusan Ristic, István Szentandrássy, Norbert Szirmai & János Révész >> List with brief biographies Organizers: Roma Cultural Participation Project European Cultural Foundation Allianz Kulturstiftung Contact: Open Society Institute Tel.: (+36-1) 327-3100 Website: www.romapavilion.org
"Paradise Lost" is the first contemporary show representing an international selection of Roma contemporary artists. The exhibition showcases the visual art talents of the largest European ethnic minority. The artists embrace and transform, deny and deconstruct, oppose and analyze, challenge and overwrite the existing stereotypes in a confident intellectual manner, reinventing the Roma tradition and its elements as contemporary culture. The archetypical motives provide a firm underlying sentiment, but the result unexpectedly suggests a new interpretation, one that is created by the Roma artists themselves. The envisioned alternative identity highlights the strengths of Roma, the capacity for fusion, the sense of glamour, humor and irony, adaptability, mobility and transnationalism. The intention of opposing and denying the existing (mis)representations and promoting the contrary carry an irresolvable dichotomy, which embodies in art unfree from sorrowful beauty, paranoia, schizophrenia, and post traumatic syndromes. If the terra incognita of exotic gypsies has been the target of escape since 19th century modernism for Europe, have we all lost our search for Paradise? Tímea Junghaus, curator See also the text: Consultants: Viktor Misiano - art historian, curator and critic (Russia)
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