Expozitia propusa de artistul clujean Dan Beudean invita privitorul in spatial intim al acestuia, camera in care locuieste si lucreaza, intr-o varianta reconstruita sugestiv. Nu exista nici o incercare de estetizare a camerei sale, ci e doar o transpunere  a acesteia in spatiul expozitional Laika.

Dan Beudean construieste un univers propriu, transformand realitatea din jurul sau si realitatea mediatica pe care o recepteaza incontinent prin intermediul televizorului din camera sa, care functioneaza cu sonorul pe mute, procesand-o cu multa ironie, seriozitate, gravitate si  spirit ludic. Ne propune un trip mental insailat dupa principii dadaiste si suprarealiste, avand o libertate de exprimare totala, aparent necontrolata. Insa fiecare instalatie de obiecte sau asamblaj de desene are o insemnatate precisa. E un haos controlat de o retea invizibila de istorii personale si mediatice. Nu intamplator apare aproape obsesiv autoportretul artistului ca un mastermind al unei lumi cu reguli proprii, o lume imaginara care are un scop revelator.

Dan Beudean foloseste desenul, pictura, colajul, obiectul, fotografia sau chiar desene sau picturi ale altor artisti pentru a-si construi instalatia cu multa migala, deturnand sensul originar al lucrurilor. In loc de fotografia bunicilor regasim o pagina dintr-o revista de colorat pentru copii, inramata si acoperita de un macrameu, celebrul elefant-bibelou e surprins intr-o scena de sex cu nu mai putin celebrul cal-bibelou sau in loc de Lupoaica alaptandu-i pe Romulus si Remus, descoperim o catelusa care alapteaza doi purcelusi sositi parca direct de la stirile de la ora 5. Dar Dan Beudean nu ne propune o critica sociala sau doar o ironie stearpa, ci ne indeamna sa privim realitatea cu mai multa imaginatie. 

 

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The exhibition proposed by the Cluj-based artist Dan Beudean invites the viewer in his private space, the room he lives and works in, in a suggestively reconstructed version. There is no attempt to embellish the room, just a transposition to Laika exhibition space. 

Dan Beudean builds his own universe, metamorphosing his immediate reality and the media reality that he unrestrainedly exposes himself to through the means of the TV set switched on mute in his room, processing these realities with irony, soberness, gravity and ludic spirit. He puts forward a mental trip woven by Dadaistic and surrealistic principles, with an absolute freedom of speech, apparently out of control. But each installation of objects or assembly of works on paper has a very precise meaning. It is a chaos ruled by an invisible net of personal or media stories. It is not by chance that the self-portrait of the artist repeats itself obsessively like a mastermind of a world with its own laws, an imaginative world with a revealing purpose.

Dan Beudean uses drawing, painting, collage, object, photography or even drawings or paintings by other artists to build his own installation meticulously, altering the primal sense of things. Instead of the grandparents’ photo we find a page from a children’s drawing brook, framed and adorned by traditional kerchief, the notorious china elephant caught in the middle of a sex act with the equally notorious china horse and instead of the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, we come across a female dog suckling two little pigs that seem to have just landed from the 5 o’clock news. But Dan Beudean’s work is not social critic or void irony, he invites us to see the reality with more imagination.

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