Black & White Cape Town Report
Exhibition 13 February–9 May 2019
Installation photograph from Dan Perjovschi’s ‘The Black and White Cape Town Report’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery that depicts a sidelong view of a staircase. On the right, the descending stairway is visible through black guardrails. On the left, the white wall features black pen marker text that reads ‘I AM NOT EXOTIC, I AM EXHAUSTED’, with a humanoid figure below it.
Installation view: Dan Perjovschi’s Black & White Cape Town Report, February 13, 2019–May 9, 2019. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Title Black & White Cape Town Report Dates 13 February–9 May 2019 Location Gallery Tagline An exhibition by Dan Perjovschi. Credits

Text:
Sara de Beer

Exhibition documentation:
Kyle Morland

Special thanks:
Gregor Podnar

In preparation for his show The Black and White Cape Town Report (2018) at A4 Arts Foundation, Dan Perjovschi spends two weeks in Cape Town, engaging the local context through spontaneous encounters, conversations, commutes, and by reading the daily papers. Perjovschi deciphers the information he has collected through a constellation of drawings. These combine familiar, reworked, and transplanted images with new data and motifs. Perjovschi draws directly onto the gallery walls using his 'trademark' black marker pen. The wall becomes a collection of aphorisms and caricatures: a super-sized newsworthy strip.

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Perjovschi's artistic practice combines illustration, political satire, comedy, and performance. Perjovschi was born, lives, and works in Romania. His work has been exhibited internationally in such locations as MoMA, the Venice Biennale, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

Installation photograph from Dan Perjovschi’s ‘The Black and White Cape Town Report’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery shows a white wall with black felt marker drawings of two toilet paper rolls. On the left, the toilet paper roll facing towards the viewer has the phrase “EXTREME LEFT” written underneath it. On the right, the toilet paper roll facing away from the viewer has the phrase “EXTREME RIGHT” written underneath it.
Installation view: Dan Perjovschi’s Black & White Cape Town Report, February 13, 2019–May 9, 2019. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Radical Play: Drawing on the wall with Dan Perjovschi
by Sara de Beer
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Installation photograph from Dan Perjovschi’s ‘The Black and White Cape Town Report’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. A closeup view shows a wooden table with a stack of pamphlets with Sara De Beer’s text ‘Radical Play: Drawing on the wall with Dan Prejovschi’.
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