If Then What After

Invitation to the opening of Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu
IF THEN WHAT AFTER

Introduction: David Komary, Curator AIR Niederösterreich
Opening: City councillor, Hans Hornyik

The works of the Romanian artist couple Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu, on view in the exhibition IF THEN WHAT AFTER at Kunstverein Baden, evince a subtle aesthetic similarity. Viewers of both the drawings and videos by Amancei & Armanu are deliberately introduced to the respective works in a very physically proximate manner. The scenic aspect of the “close-up” and the associated intimacy of the view is a result of various aesthetic strategies and thematic concepts. While the small-format drawings confront the viewer with a kind of reading, an observing while reading at the same time, the very personal film portraits of the artist couple’s parents seem in a certain way almost immersive. In so doing, the films open up a complex semantic field comprising the biographical, the historical, the political—and their representations.

In co-operation with Kunstverein Baden.