As part of the “Start Dambovita” event which took place between 16-20.07.2007 in Bucharest, Halelor Street (Piata Uniri in front of Hanul lui Manuc) and was organized with the help of the General Council of Bucharest, the Public Utilities Department, Luxten and the National Water Company Romania.
We have started based on the idea that Bucharest cannot be but the object of a horizontal analysis and it simply cannot be set as an urban artefact. As long as the virulent changes, which affect all the social structures, represent the natural answer as a defence against this mutation, this project is a cultural gesture.
The 2 artists of the focAR Group – Razvan Neagoe and Alina Tudor – share, once again, as part of their preoccupation, a special interest for the urban, public space.
The RED SPOT project is equally an artistic project as it is architectural one. Through double nature it sets the viewer in an aesthetic space of urban and human interrogation relative to Dambovita. Close to Dambovita, the river reality – “we have to live with this” – is being interrogated, thus becoming a subject of the daily life and experience, and even more – it is being granted a visual aesthetic alternative.
The red spots on the sides of Dambovita are the magicians of a fault – Dambovita River, which crosses and transcends Bucharest. The meeting in between the heterogeneous elements of the contemporary reality – starting with the mutual perception of an usual space, neutral and violently ignored, and moving to the personal experience of such a place – represents the basis of the work of the 2 artists.
The place – the Halelor Street zone – wasn’t chosen by random; in the Bucharest urban space with cohabitants of such complex and different natures, the transit areas become the magnets around which the human phenomenon gravitates and develops.
The natural curve of the river and the placing of the red spots at the minimal level in the regions where the water defies the walls, going underneath the platform in Piata Unirii, is the source – from a visual perspective – of the need for positive space, a need increasing exponentially. The domino effect as a rule in Bucharest of the RED SPOT project will “light up” the city with the hope and trust that the future will help us evade the past errors. RED SPOT is fundamentally an artistic project because it is able of absorbing the reality and moving it in an aesthetic zone.
We have started based on the idea that Bucharest cannot be but the object of a horizontal analysis and it simply cannot be set as an urban artefact. As long as the virulent changes, which affect all the social structures, represent the natural answer as a defence against this mutation, this project is a cultural gesture.
The 2 artists of the focAR Group – Razvan Neagoe and Alina Tudor – share, once again, as part of their preoccupation, a special interest for the urban, public space.
The RED SPOT project is equally an artistic project as it is architectural one. Through double nature it sets the viewer in an aesthetic space of urban and human interrogation relative to Dambovita. Close to Dambovita, the river reality – “we have to live with this” – is being interrogated, thus becoming a subject of the daily life and experience, and even more – it is being granted a visual aesthetic alternative.
The red spots on the sides of Dambovita are the magicians of a fault – Dambovita River, which crosses and transcends Bucharest. The meeting in between the heterogeneous elements of the contemporary reality – starting with the mutual perception of an usual space, neutral and violently ignored, and moving to the personal experience of such a place – represents the basis of the work of the 2 artists.
The place – the Halelor Street zone – wasn’t chosen by random; in the Bucharest urban space with cohabitants of such complex and different natures, the transit areas become the magnets around which the human phenomenon gravitates and develops.
The natural curve of the river and the placing of the red spots at the minimal level in the regions where the water defies the walls, going underneath the platform in Piata Unirii, is the source – from a visual perspective – of the need for positive space, a need increasing exponentially. The domino effect as a rule in Bucharest of the RED SPOT project will “light up” the city with the hope and trust that the future will help us evade the past errors. RED SPOT is fundamentally an artistic project because it is able of absorbing the reality and moving it in an aesthetic zone.
Adriana Mereuta
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