Remembering Mark Verlan. The artist who bridged poetry and apocalyptic jest
Remembering Mark Verlan. The artist who bridged poetry and apocalyptic jest
Author(s): Giovanna Di MauroContributor(s): Maria Breskaya (Translator)
Subject(s): Politics, Poetry, Visual Arts, Aesthetics, Sociology of Art
Published by: Kolegium Europy Wschodniej im. Jana Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: Mark Verlan; Moldovan artist; paintings; ultra-stiobanism; different artistic approach; painting of Vladimir Putin; politics in art;
Summary/Abstract: Talk to anyone who met Mark Verlan and they will have a story to tell. Like that time when the famous Swiss curator, Harald Szeemann, travelled to Chișinău just to meet him and offer him the opportunity to exhibit his work in BLUT & HONIG (Blood and Honey), a retrospective hosted by the Vienna Essl Collection. During the time that Szeemann spent in Chișinău, Verlan was nowhere to be found, but 25 of his paintings (more than any artist’s present at the exhibition) made it to the retrospective. His friend and fellow artist Pavel Brăila recalls that, at the same exhibition, someone asked Verlan why he did not speak English and the artist sarcastically replied: “It was already difficult for me to learn Russian.”
Journal: New Eastern Europe
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 03 (46)
- Page Range: 106-110
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English
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