Pavilion #9 [antikvár]

Chaos: The Age of Confusion - remarks for an exhibition - by Zsolt Petrányi The following lines seek to describe the parallel aspects which exist between our unsure knowledge of the phenomena of that part of the civilized world which we call society, its contemporary history or economy and the possibilities of artistic expression. My standpoint regarding this subject is that the status of understanding can be reflected in many forms, but the closest paralellity to the submission of messages about this knowledge can be found in situations where the source material is the image of the world itself, reflected in photographic, filmed or installed (real) situations. Moreover, I believe that the experiments of the 2nd Bucharest Biennial can showcase the metaphors of art forms which describe the characteristics of our chaotic world — something which I definitely think we face with a current period of history which can perhaps be described as a world of confusion. The chaos is defined here as a personal perspective of our daily experience and its scientific approach has no place within our project. My approach to the subject is rooted in the art historical view that social matters [a