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Photo credits
©Ștefan Sava

OPEN CALLS 2011-2016




December 2016

Published by Salonul de proiecte
200 pages
Format 20x30cm, Hardcover
ISBN 978-973-0-22732-1


Edited by Salonul de proiecte
Publication concept: Alexandra Croitoru,
Magda Radu, Ștefan Sava
Editor: Alexandra Croitoru
Assistant editor: Cătălina Bolozan
Text contributors: Magda Radu, Jelena Vesić,
Diana Ursan


Design: Raymond Bobar
Paper: Arctic Volume Ivory, Munken Lynx Rough
Production: Fabrik
Print run: 600

Available to purchase through
Anthony Frost English Bookshop and P U N C H


Artists:
Marina Albu, Luminița Apostu, Apparatus 22, Maria Baroncea, Vlad Basalici, Dragoș Bădiță, Biroul de Cercetări Melodramatice / The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, Alexandra Bodea, Mihuț Boșcu Kafchin, Răzvan Botiș, Lucian Bran, Cristina Amelia Cândea, Simion Cernica, Andreea Ciobîcă, Claudiu Cobilanschi, Irina Costache, Larisa David, Andrei Dinu, Daniel Djamo, Ion Dumitrescu, Paul Dunca, Alexandru Fifea, Tatiana Fiodorova, Florin Flueraș, Irina Gheorghe, Bogdan Gîrbovan, Mihai Iepure-Górski, Simina Guga, Cătălin Ilie, Mădălina Lazăr, Mihai Lukacs, Mihaela Michailov, Olivia Mihălțianu, Szilárd Miklós, Mixer, Ivana Mladenovic, Monotremu, Alexandru Niculescu, Daniela Pălimariu, Ioana Păun, Allison Peacock, [Perplex], Alexandra Pirici, Alina Popa, Raluca Popa, Sorin Popescu, Veda Popovici, Flaviu Rogojan, Cătălin Rulea, Ștefan Sava, David Schwartz, Sillyconductor, Soyons Impossibles, Zamir Suleymanov, Ștefan Tiron, Iulia Toma

This book encapsulates five years of the Salonul de proiecte curatorial programme, whose mission was to foster the production of contemporary art in Romania and the Republic of Moldova. The publication is an important collection of works shown over the course of the eight exhibitions that resulted from the annual calls for projects; it is a relevant archive of the recent history of Romanian art, as well as a useful platform for future research projects.

Editorial project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund, Romania

This project does not necessarily reflect the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The Administration of the National Cultural Fund is not responsible for the content of this project or the ways in which the results of this project might be used. These are solely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.

This publication has been supported by ERSTE Foundation.

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Alexandra Croitoru: Brancusi. An Afterlife / Brâncuși. O viață veșnică




Foreword by Cristian Nae
December 2015


English Edition
Co-published by Salonul de proiecte
& Archive Books Berlin
272 pages
160x230mm, Softcover
ISBN 978-3-943620-40-5


Romanian Edition
Co-published by Salonul de proiecte
& IDEA Publishing House Cluj
260 pages
160x230mm, Softcover
ISBN 978-606-8265-35-3


Available through the distribution networks of IDEA & Archive Books and in Anthony Frost bookshop / Bucharest, Calea Victoriei 45, Sector 1.


Alexandra Croitoru’s research reflect an impressive investigation specific to cultural studies, in which the central element is the social construction of the Brancusi “myth,” as well as the processes by which this myth is reproduced and conserved in Romanian popular culture. The myth is here interpreted as a naturalised ideological construct, which ultimately comes to be identified with a national superstructure of identity. Within the framework of this research, the artist traces the genealogy of a number of cultural mechanisms that contributed to the mediatisation of Constantin Brancusi’s name and work both inside and outside the art world. The element shared by all these discourses is without a doubt fiction—that narrative construct fundamental to defining a nation as an imagined and imaginary community. (Cristian Nae) Alexandra Croitoru (b. 1975) is a visual artist based in Bucharest (RO). Between 1993 and 1998 she studied at The National Academy of Arts Bucharest. Since 1999 she has been teaching at the Photo-Video department of the same institution. She holds a PhD from UNArte Bucharest. Since 2011 she is co-curator of Salonul de proiecte Bucharest. Her projects have been presented in exhibitions organized by prestigious institutions throughout Romania and Europe. Her PhD research, focusing on the “nationalization” of Brancusi in Romania, was the starting point for this editorial project as well as for the exhibitions she curated in 2015 in connection to it: The Sons and Daughters of Brancusi. A Family Saga – (Act I) at Galeria Plan B Clujand (Act II) in the frame of Timișoara Art Encounters.


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Edited by Salonul de proiecte
December 2014
Romanian/English
180 pages
150x232mm, Softcover
ISBN 978-973-0-17836-4

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Ioana Nemeș: Sometimes we shouldn't pretend everything is OK posters



Edited by Salonul de proiecte
June 2013
Romanian/English
60 x 75 cm, tri fold posters

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Geta Brătescu: Artist's Studios



Edited by Salonul de proiecte
December 2012
Romanian/English
77 pages
16.5 x 11.5 cm, Softcover

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