Thursday 1 Jan 2009

within ‘The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space’
Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4BB; Tel. 0151 702 7400
Exhibition open until 1 February 2009. Admission free

Dan Perjovschi’s cartoon-like drawings, disarmingly immediate and politically resonant, responding to local and national issues, have appeared in a range of formats: from his notebooks, to newspapers and galleries around the world. For Tate Liverpool, Perjovschi drew directly onto the gallery walls and stairwells, both before and during the exhibition, working with and alongside Liverpool schoolchildren. For the first time he will invite the public to draw their own cartoons alongside his own.

Dan has also taken some time to work together with the News Magazine on the BBC’s website, in order to compose a topical cartoon for the Magazine Index. You can read the story here: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7787337.stm .

Other artists involved in ‘The Fifth Floor’ are: Polish artist Pawel Althamer, Olivier Bardin (France), Rineke Dijkstra (The Netherlands), Liverpool artist Nina Edge, Swedish artist collective International Festival, Peter Liversidge (UK), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico/Canada), Liverpool artist Paul Rooney, Tino Sehgal (Germany), tenantspin (a Liverpool-based community TV channel), Xijing Men (an artists’ group from China, Japan and South Korea).

The exhibition will be accompanied by a comprehensive publication, edited by Peter Gorschluter (Head of Exhibitions, Tate Liverpool) and published by Liverpool University Press, featuring contributions by participating artists as well as interviews and essays by Lars Bang Larsen, Claire Bishop and Nicolas Bourriaud among others.

Details on www.tate.org.uk/liverpool .

More about Dan Perjovschi on his website: www.perjovschi.ro .