2META
Biography
2META
The group was formed by Romelo Pervolovici and Maria Manolescu, in 1998.
With us, META steps into the foreground of independence and identity, which it had not had as a prefix, thus losing its quality as an annex to something.
What was it as an element of composition/annex?
Among others:
It suggested the idea of post (metaphysics).
It aimed towards transformation, change (metamorphosis).
As a prefix, META is directed towards art, discourse, painting, logic, mathematics, physics, psychology, philosophy etc.
Referring to META-art, the discourse is concerned with the classic connotation of the “ART ABOUT ART”. We add: “ART VERSUS ART”, “ART INFESTED BY ART”, “INNER/OUTER ART” “IN FRONT OF/ BEHIND ART” etc.
META-art: what am I / how do I look? What does art tell us about itself or about other discourses, about codes and conventions, the way in which we “see” and how we were taught to do it, representation and visibility? These are only a few topics which META-art brings into discussion.
Transition, privatization, democratization, this is the atmosphere in which META was born, preserving its prefix connotation, next to.
Among others, to us META signifies never alone. The projects, the visual discourses we get involved in are almost every time connected to this next to.
2008 I saw somebody that wasn't there, Viennafair, Austria
2007 Dorothy Shoes, Viennafair, Austria; Atelier 2META, Bucharest
2006 Euro Flag, Viennafair, Austria
Euro Flag, Prague European Architecture Centre, Czech Republic
Euro Flag, ICR Paris, France
Euro Bandera, the Public Latin library "Antonio Mingote", Madrid, Spain
Euro Bandera, Cultural Centre MARGARITA NIELKEN, Coslada, Spain
2005 Euro Flag, 2META Gallery, Bucharest
2004 Experiment, Cărtureşti Bookshop, Bucharest
2003 Art is my weapon, New Gallery, Bucharest
2002 La Minereală, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonic, Greece
2002 Preview, Contemporary Art Museum, Bucharest
2002 Art is my weapon, 10th Biennial of Visual Arts, Pancevo, Yugoslavia
2002 L'enlevement de l'Europe, ICR Venice
2001 Opening, SPACE Gallery, Bucharest
2001 L'enlevement de l'Europe, Hasselt, Belgium
2001 Artopology, 2META Gallery, Bucharest
2001 Screaming Room, Gallery Konkordija, Vrsac, Yugoslavia; 2META Gallery, Bucharest
2000 OR - Jacques Derrida Anniversary, Gallery La Hune, Paris, Franţa
2000 ILLUSORY PARADISES, 2META Gallery, Bucharest2008 - I saw somebody that wasn't there, Viennafair, Austria
