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Workers Leaving the Studio: Looking Away from Socialist Realism |
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Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei |
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Jonida Gashi |
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Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei |
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Genti Gjikola |
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Workers Leaving the Studio. Looking Away from Socialist |
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Realism. catalogs the exhibition Workers leaving the |
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studio. Looking away from socialist realism., curated by |
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Mihnea Mircan in the National Gallery of Arts in Tirana, |
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Albania in 2015. According to Mircan, The [ ] exhibition |
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reflects on another projection machine, whose history and |
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consequences, unlike cinema, are circumscribed by |
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national boundaries, specific histories, and ideological |
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configurations. The regime of production and |
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representation of socialist realism radicalizes the |
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violence that the creation of a new image does to its |
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subject: it intensifies the fraught relation between |
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refashioned representation and that which is represented. |
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Its insistence on a particular, projective notion of |
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reality is commensurate with the coercion of daily |
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cultural, social, emotional life into a grid whose |
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perspective lines and vanishing points carry heavy |
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ideological charges. It enforces what it represents onto |
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that which it represents, so that representation would |
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replace reality. |
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Apart from a full documentation of the exhibition by |
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photographer Marco Mazzi, the catalogue also features |
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theoretical and art-historical contributions, both in |
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English and in Albanian, on socialist realist art as |
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developed in Albania under the communist regime, as well |
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as texts highlighting contemporary attempts to display |
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political realities through progressive artistic |
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practices. Artists include: Santiago Sierra, Jonas Staal, |
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Ciprian Mure an, Irwin, Sarah Vanagt, and Armando Lulaj, |
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with scholarly contributions by |
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Date Published: 2022-11-28 14:12:11 |
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Identifier: c21f4155-1d84-4590-9c08-f67ac39f3d97 |
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Item Size: 163623836 |
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Media Type: texts |
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socialist realism |
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