RELATIONAL AESTHETICS IN THE ROMANIAN ART AFTER 1990
RELATIONAL AESTHETICS IN THE ROMANIAN ART AFTER 1990

Summary/Abstract: Relational aesthetics represents an essential concept for the theory of contemporary art, which the French critic, Nicolas Bourriaud, applies to artistic practices arisen during the ’90s. He speaks about a type of living art, directly lived and experimented by the artist and by the group of involved persons. This article proposes to follow the method the Romanian artistic context during the post-communist period shall integrate steps including as well this relational component. The identified and analyzed cases cover a period of almost ten years. The first examples of projects embeddable into relational aesthetics appear in Romania in the mid-’90s and generally have a critical speech towards the difficulties faced by the Romanian society.

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