Dan Perjovschi - Wandzeichnungen

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Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi works above and below the surfaces. He creates drawings, keywords, and chains of words between languages, across entire walls. They contain references to what already exists. Sometimes there is already dust over them, or the connections are hidden behind masonry, distant memories nestled in the underlying structures. Since the 1990s, Perjovschi has used the medium of drawing as a starting point to rearrange sociopolitical themes in crisscrossing lines or specific collections of words and diagrams. The minimalist drawings and terms used in them address the complexity of the present with great clarity, but at the same time dissolve such clarity in newfound perspectives. The contexts range from realism to crass satire. Past and present coexist in this kind of practice. Some might think of graffiti, but Perjovschi’s wall drawings are commentaries on themselves (as well as on the world around them). Motifs appear here that connect with each other across all sorts of differentials. For the Kyiv Biennial, the artist has made a site-specific work on the back wall of Atelier Augarten.