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Specificaties
- Auteur
- Bogdan Ghiu, Viktor Misiano, Stefan Rusu, Huub van Baar, Jelle Bouwhuis
- Uitgever
- Alauda Publications
- ISBN
- 9789081531405
- Bindwijze
- Hardback
- Publicatiedatum
- Januari 2012
- Categorie
- Wetenschappelijk
- Taal
- Engelstalig
- Aantal Pagina's
- 192
Beschrijving
Ilya Rabinovich is an Israeli-Moldavian photographer, internationally acclaimed for his unique photo projects. Rabinovich is based in Amsterdam, where he graduated from the Rijksakademie in 2000. In 2008 he travelled to his birthplace Chisinau in Moldavia to photograph the exhibitions in the national museums. Here he encountered a remarkable process, the close observation of which led to the photographic project Museutopia. Moldavia was annexed by the erstwhile USSR in 1940 and remained under Soviet rule till 1991. This period of its history becomes distorted or totally erased in the national museums, wherein each museum orchestrates its own, preferred image of the new Moldavia.
On Rabinovich's photographs, the exhibited museum artifacts appear in the midst of curious wall paintings, models and display cabinets, as if they were from a mythical world, rather than documents of the national historical past. In themselves, the photographs are stunningly pleasing to the eye and appeal to the viewer with their nostalgic traces. Yet they also reveal an entirely different narrative to those who allow themselves to be guided further by the sensitive eye of the photographer. What happens when museums, instead of being places of storing and exhibiting historical information and artifacts, turn into active agents of the formation of a new cultural identity? And indeed, how far are we aware of the influence of historical canons and shifting cultural policies, when it comes to our `own' Western European museums?
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Specificaties
- Auteur
- Bogdan Ghiu, Viktor Misiano, Stefan Rusu, Huub van Baar, Jelle Bouwhuis
- Uitgever
- Alauda Publications
- ISBN
- 9789081531405
- Bindwijze
- Hardback
- Publicatiedatum
- Januari 2012
- Categorie
- Wetenschappelijk
- Taal
- Engelstalig
- Aantal Pagina's
- 192