Recent and Radical: Excess, Absence, and Erasure in the Museum of Recent Art
Journal: Martor The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review
Year: 2021

Inaugurated in 2018, the Museum of Recent Art (MARe) in Bucharest has rapidly become one of the leading contemporary art institutions in Romania. Rivaling state-financed museums, MARe’s approach to exhibiting contemporaneity is dialectical, exchanging the conventional, chronologically determined museological method for anachronism. This approach provides a framework through which the perpetual theoretical correspondence between past, present, and future artistic practices is facilitated. Focusin