| Piata Rosa Luxemburg |
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| Piata Rosa Luxemburg, stickers, Periferic 8 Biennal, Art as Gift, 2008 | |||
| Piata Rosa Luxemburg
seeks to fulfil the function of a public square—a place where people of all generations can gather and exchange ideas. We imagined this space as a metaphor for an ideal square, a temporary site that could migrate across different parts of the city, highlighting the ongoing need for public space as a foundation of community life and a catalyst for social awareness. We chose Rosa Luxemburg as a symbol of hope. By placing her texts on peace, freedom, and social equality on the walls of the structure, we aimed to reflect on whether, after the failure of socialism in our country, we can still allow ourselves to think in utopian terms. | |||
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| Piata Rosa Luxemburg,
Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Periferic 8 Biennal, Art as Gift, 2008 /Infopoint
of the biennial designed in collaboration with architect Markus Bader, Raumlabor |
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We continued this project by creating a sculpture that documents a demolished monument. We invited an architecture student, Alexandru Camil Isan (University of Architecture, Bucharest), to construct a model of the memorial to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Berlin and later destroyed by the nazis in 1935. Using photographs found online, Camil had to reconstruct the lost parts of the monument, reinventing what was missing based on the limited information available. |
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| Rosa Luxemburg Demolished Memorial, architecture model, 2009 |
| They frequently turn to modernist architecture, viewed not only as a repository of memory, but also as a field permeated by social ideals and ideologies, an indicator of people's way of living and understanding the present. Their metaphoric, poetical artistic practice constantly moves between realistic evaluation of the object of inquiry and the shaping of images of hope. Besides the discursive entry, another grounding element of the exhibition is the model which reconstructs the demolished Berlin memorial of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebnecht, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1926. Rosa Luxemburg, the left-wing socialist, antimilitarist and antidogmatic thinker, activist and writer, who dedicated herself to the project of a new world, constructed by the people by their own efforts, is evoked here as a symbol of hope. Thus the model in the exhibition stands for a monument of hope, which questions the utopian potential that lies in post-socialist societies. text by Judit Angel, Flying Utopia, tranzit.sk, 2015. |
