Absence from the art scene doesn’t mean I’m not here. Exercise.
Photography, 2009. Text, 2010.
Work „Absence from the art scene doesn’t mean I’m not here” started from my desire to picket an art show/fair. I was initially planning on setting up and documenting a performance: standing outside a respected art entity during an event with a picketing banner. Uncomfortable and unmotivated with performing an actual picketing action I decided to place the banner in the surrounding parks of the Frieze Fair venue and take a photograph to document its presence. With that impossible due to police restrictions, the photograph was taken instead inside during fair wrap-up. (Thanks to Mihai Pop, Mihnea Mircan si Mihaela Lutea for making that possible.)
„Exercise”. While wondering if work would be possible without some of the things we frequently use as artists in our processes, I started an exercise which consists of enumerating them in denial.
Downshifting? I have a personal experience with what I think could be considered downshifting. As far as time is concerned art or making works of art is a secondary occupation for me. Although I somewhat enjoy having it that way, it has as a result a lower rate of production of artworks; the time preceding production is extended. Putting out fewer works has its benefits. Every single work gains in importance and is more thoroughly thought of. Some of the “weaker” works are never produced.
Artist's Bio:
Mihai Ieapure Gorski. was born in Alba Iulia. His family moved to Cluj-Napoca right after the fall of Ceausescu, in 1990. He still resides there. And although Gorski’s works have been exhibited internationally, he says that as far as time is concerned, making works of art is a secondary occupation for him. „I enjoy the thought of having my life organized in this way, although art is a priority in my life as a whole.”