Tell us about MNTRplusC.
MNTRplusC, opened in 2021, is a space for contemporary art and social dialog, located in the basement of the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, initiated and coordinated in an artist-run system by artist Ilina Schileru. The MNTRplusC program questions stereotypes related to rurality in relation to urbanity and ageism and focuses on identifying the cultural imprints on the periphery of society (and of consumption) and reconsidering them through the prism of artistic experience, and through curatorial and research approach.
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#jesuismahala "Je suis Mahala" - solo exhibition by Eugen Raportoru, at MNȚRplusC On Thursday, February 20, 2025, at MNȚRplusC, the exhibition space of the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (Pavel D. Kiseleff 3), the solo exhibition entitled "Je suis Mahala" by visual artist Eugen Raportoru will be opened. Curated by Ana Daniela Sultana and hosted by Ilina Schileru, the exhibition can be visited from February 20 to May 20, 2025. On the occasion of this exhibition, Eugen Raportoru proposes to the public a multi-integrated cultural product about a slum (re)constructed from the memories of his adolescence and youth, when he lived with family and friends in a common space. We are thus offered a slum in which common places and images are (re)configured, between kitsch and tumultuous biographical existences from which the toilet in the courtyard, old photographs and portraits, quilts, and colorful pillowcases, the servant-commode with a display window or muslins could not be missing. It is a world that is sometimes very much alive with violent, playful, or post-expressionist tones, especially in the installations, and sometimes resonating with great paintings ("The Last Supper", "The Cross" or "The Slum", on large canvases), themes that are reread and revisited from the perspective of the otherness of matter or of existence. Symbolically, the bulldozers in Eugen Raportoru's painting bring into the debate the demolition or disappearance of the slum, as is happening more and more everywhere in the world in the era of gentrification. The space and the actions of "Je suis Mahala" will be documented in a video testimony, a film made with the support of ERIAC" (curatorial text by Ana Daniela Sultana and Ilina Schileru).
