Bogdan achimescu biography of martin

article by Dana Fabini, written in , published in the catalogue of the exhibition Bogdan Achimescu: Uglyplaces, Second Street Gallery and Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, Virginia
original in Romanian, English translation by Carrie Galbraith

In an interview recorded in December in Cologne, as he was recounting the path of his life and art, Achimescu uttered the revelatory affirmation that he exists in no country.

For the past 15 years, Achimescu’s artistic perambulations over three continents have given him no anchor in any clearly delineated social or national territory, therefore, not allowing him to be identified with a stable set of coordinates.

All of this movement constitutes the de-facto etymological basis for the baffling affirmation that, although formally a Polish citizen, since he never positions himself anywhere for a significant period of time, Achimescu does not exist in any country.
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