Utopic dream of the Romanian
Economy”, Iulian Virtopeanu
It is an installation consisting of a football gate,
ceramic plates and two footballs
The football gate:
It is two-dimensional. There are 4
panels with ceramic plates of different colours, but similar shapes and sizes. Gate
symbolizes the European economy. Plates of the same colour represent GDP (“Gross
Domestic Product”) of the most representative European countries contributing to
European GDP percentage:
The plates: - dark
gray – Germany’s GDP
- dark
purple – GDP of France
- white – UK GDP
- green
– Italy’s GDP
- light
ocher – Spanish GDP
- orange
– Dutch GDP
- light
purple – Swiss GDP
- etc…
- red – Greek GDP (it could also be broken, to be in the spirit of
immediate reality, but also as a symbol of Greek tradition of breaking plates after the party)
The footballs:
Romania's GDP is represented by
two footballs, one is the economy of Romania and the second is the reserve (back
up). They are made of white clay painted with Botz pigments (1200 º C).
On the two balls are painted:
- logos of Bank institutions
(World, European, National): IMF, EBRD, European Central Bank, BNR, contributing
to the development of Romanian economy;
- logos factories: UAP (Pitesti
Car Factory), ARO, InterAgro, Brasov Tractor Factory (UTB), etc. Some of them
represent the past, others the past and the present Romanian economy.
The utopic dream of Romanian
economy is to get through a well placed shot right into the gate of the
European economy.
I made the second ball in case
the first ball would miss the gate and it goes in weeds, considering the poor
training of players.
Iulian Vîrtopeanu
Visual Artist
Mobile phone: +4 0745 098 250
