The Horizontal Newspaper is most probably the longest-lasting intervention in the public space in Romania and certainly a unique artistic experiment in the world.
A fixed point from where Perjovschi has been conveying meaning for over a decade and an active space of freedom, self-determination, solidarity, and coherence..
What Perjovschi delivers to his international audience through the Western art scenes, he also provides to the eyes of anyone who walks along the Coposu Boulevard in Sibiu city.
The Horizontal Newspaper has evolved into a “place in time” that neither spares us our biases nor allows us to sink in despair.
Furthermore, as an artistic experiment, it refutes double standards.
Therefore, the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu cherished and celebrated what the National Theatre in Bucharest failed to appreciate.
The Horizontal Newspaper, the classroom with a single wall, neither discriminates nor closes its eyes to discrimination.
The work unfolds on a surface that is roughly 50 meters by four meters.
Ironically, the year when the National Theatre Bucharest destroyed Perjovschi’s At the Wall installation was coincidentally the year when he did the first intervention on the street-facing side of the wall.
The Horizontal Newspaper is most probably the longest-lasting intervention in the public space in Romania and certainly a unique artistic experiment in the world
