Dan Perjovschi
Bucharest-based artist Dan Perjovschi incorporates drawing, graffiti, and cartooning into his distinct practice, which is marked by politically charged content. Childlike stick figures are pictured throughout Perjovschi’s work, as they engage in activist causes, carry protest signs, tote firearms, or express frustration at omnipresent surveillance cameras. Social, political, and cultural issues form the foundation of Perjovschi’s body of work, but in his humorous treatment, Perjovschi challenges and questions global developments and political events in an unexpectedly amusing manner.
Perjovschi began his career as a political cartoonist for the Romanian magazine Revista 22 in the early 1990s and has since gone on to become the country’s foremost visual artist. His unassuming yet decidedly charged illustrations are not confined to the paper’s edge. In fact, Perjovschi is noted for his large-scale installations—he draws directly onto gallery and museum walls—and his performance work further challenges the traditional boundaries of drawing.
Perjovschi has been the subject of solo exhibitions at notable institutions around the world including the Rejkyavik Museum of Art, Ludwigsburg Kunsthalle, the Royal Ontario Museum, the San Francisco Institute of the Arts, Espai d’Art Contemporani in Castellon, the Wiels Center for Contemporary Art Brussels, New York’s Museum of Modern Art and London’s …
Bucharest-based artist Dan Perjovschi incorporates drawing, graffiti, and cartooning into his distinct practice, which is marked by politically charged content. Childlike stick figures are pictured throughout Perjovschi’s work, as they engage in activist causes, carry protest signs, tote firearms, or express frustration at omnipresent surveillance cameras. Social, political, and cultural issues form the foundation of Perjovschi’s body of work, but in his humorous treatment, Perjovschi challenges and questions global developments and political events in an unexpectedly amusing manner.
Perjovschi began his career as a political cartoonist for the Romanian magazine Revista 22 in the early 1990s and has since gone on to become the country’s foremost visual artist. His unassuming yet decidedly charged illustrations are not confined to the paper’s edge. In fact, Perjovschi is noted for his large-scale installations—he draws directly onto gallery and museum walls—and his performance work further challenges the traditional boundaries of drawing.
Perjovschi has been the subject of solo exhibitions at notable institutions around the world including the Rejkyavik Museum of Art, Ludwigsburg Kunsthalle, the Royal Ontario Museum, the San Francisco Institute of the Arts, Espai d’Art Contemporani in Castellon, the Wiels Center for Contemporary Art Brussels, New York’s Museum of Modern Art and London’s Tate Modern.
