The Horizontal Newspaper. The Last 5 Years. Postcards

Ziarul Orizontal – alb, negru, manifest. Cinci ani de palimpsest performativ politic, social, cultural si activist, direct de la Sibiu, intr-o cutie eleganta cu 70 de cartoline care fac rezumatul caustic al prezentului.

"Ziarul Orizontal este o scoala de text si imagine, critica si incluziva.

O noua editie este inaugurata anual, odata cu Festivalul International de Teatru de la Sibiu. Tot ce desenez pe peretii muzeelor de arta din toata lumea aduc la Sibiu, pentru concetatenii mei. Ziarul are „rubrici“ diverse (local, global, cultural, social, politic, activist), pe care le actualizez constant de-a lungul anului. Editiile morpheaza dintr-una intr-alta.

Am inceput Ziarul Orizontal in 2010, ca pe o panorama a societatii in care traiesc. Alb, negru, manifest. Ziarul este gratuit si accesibil 24 de ore pe zi, 7 zile pe saptamana, 12 luni pe an. Zi, noapte, iarna, vara. A fost singurul proiect artistic ramas deschis pe perioada pandemiei." (Dan Perjovschi)

"The Horizontal Newspaper is a school of text and image, critical and inclusive.

Every year, the Sibiu International Theatre Festival brings with it a new edition of the Newspaper. Everything that I draw on the walls of art museums across the world I bring to Sibiu for my fellow citizens. The Newspaper has various “columns” (local, global, cultural, social, political, activist), which I update continuously throughout the year. Its editions thereby morph from one into another.

I began the Horizontal Newspaper in 2010, with the intention of providing an overview of the society in which I live and breathe. Black, white – a manifesto. The Newspaper if free and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 12 month a year. Night and day, rain or shine. It was the only art project that remained open during the pandemic." (Dan Perjovschi)

"Cel mai probabil, cea mai lunga interventie in spatiul public din Romania si cu siguranta un experiment artistic unic in lume." (Gloria Luca)

Nascut in Sibiu in 1961, Dan Perjovschi este unul dintre cei mai originali artisti romani integrati in lumea artistica europeana fara complexe. Fie ca e vorba de instalatii, de happening-uri sau performance-uri toate manifestarile sale sunt marcate de o constiinta politica si un umor devastator care transcend granita lingvistica si atenueaza „ciocnirea civilizatiilor” sau diferentele culturale majore.

Biografia sa este marcata de anul 1989 cand incepe sa se afirme prin desenele sale atat de speciale care isi fac intruziunea in presa de opozitie, sarcasmul sau continand o satira originala, nemaiintalnita pana atunci. Comentariile vizuale sunt complementare articolelor din revista 22 unde a fost invitat sa tina si o rubrica saptamanala.

Dan Perjovschi foloseste in arta lui desenul, caricatura si graffiti-ul, jucand un rol activ in dezvoltarea societatii civile din Romania prin munca sa redactionala la Revista 22. Desenele sale sunt adesea comentarii politice asupra problemelor contemporane si a evenimentelor culturale.

A reprezentat Romania la Bienala de la Venetia in 1999 si a expus in bienale si muzee din intreaga lume, cum ar fi Bienala de la Istanbul (2005), Tate Modern (2006), MoMA, New York (2007) sau Trienala de la Paris (2012). Si-a publicat desenele sub forma unor ziare gratuite sau mici carti, intre care se numara Mad Cow, Bird Flu, Global Village (2007), Postmodern Ex-Communist (2007) si Bucuresti, Brussel, Chisinau (2008). Traieste si lucreaza la Bucuresti si Sibiu.

Internationally acclaimed artist and political activist DAN PERJOVSCHI (b. 29 October 1961, Sibiu, Romania) covers surfaces worldwide—walls, windows, ceilings, doors, floors—with his trenchant, terse cartoons, criticizing current geo-political, social, and cultural crises and customs almost as fast as they form.

He began developing his practice on the walls of his own apartment in the early 1980s, when the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu forced him to keep his subversive wit under cover. With the 1989 Romanian revolution, in which he participated, he was unleashed. For Perjovschi, everything is fair game, from the Occupy Wall Street Movement to the hierarchies of the art world to the apparent decline in the quality of Finnish men’s sperm. In his words: “Europe is one of my subjects. Everything else is the other. I look, understand, and visually translate local and global issues. […] I am more time-specific than site-specific.”