ERIAC EXHIBITION: TAJSA ROMA CULTURAL HERITAGE PRIZE
TAJSA ROMA CULTURAL HERITAGE PRIZE EXHIBITION
10.12.2021
On view in the National Theater Belgrade:
Location: Francuska 3, Beograd 11000, Serbia
Curators:
Timea Junghaus, ERIAC Executive Director
Nataliia Tomenko, ERIAC Intern
[EN]
According to the artist Robert Gabris, “Tajsa is the connection between yesterday and tomorrow, present energy between you and me, power, beauty, fragility.” With the 2021 Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize Exhibition, ERIAC is honouring and celebrating the creativity and spirit that represent the Tajsa Prize and even more wonderfully also its design by Gabris. The bridging of time and space, of resistance and future possibility are poetically encapsulated by the growing and blossoming of a floral emblem that became the meaningful icon of the Tajsa Prize. “We Roma carry this spirit with us and it is this which brings us together in celebratory joy of who we are. Together, we are Tajsa!”
Text: Nataliia Tomenko and Marc Hörler
BIOGRAPHY
Robert Gabris
Robert Gabris was born in Slovakia, lives and works as a freelance artist in Vienna. He graduated in the University for Performing Arts in Bratislava and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Gabris has often been able to collaborate in many international exhibitions with various Roma organisations such as Eriac in Berlin and New York, Agency for European Fundamental Rights (FRA) in Vienna, Akademie Graz in Strasbourg, Bucharest, Paris and Sarajevo, Open Society Foundation in Prague, and with the Visegrad Fund in Budapest.
Gabris deals with drawing and engraving, describing the content of his work as a socially critical, political and activist confrontation with identity issues and new perspectives of the Roma in the European context. Starting point of his work are new experimental forms of drawing as a resistance against exclusion, homophobia and racism.
Besides his work, Gabris teaches anatomical drawing in various institutes in Vienna. In his spare time he draws corpses in the Anatomical Institute in Vienna, but he is also interested to study bones, meet and flowers.
[SB]
Prema umetniku Robertu Gabrisu „Tajsa je veza između jučerašnjice i sutrašnjice, predstavlja energiju između vas i mene, snagu, lepotu, krhkost“. Izložbom povodom nagrade za kulturno nasleđe Roma Tajsa 2021 ERIAC odaje počast i proslavlja energiju i duh koji predstavljaju nagradu Tajsa, a još čudesnije i njen dizajn koji je uradio Gabris. Premošćavanje vremena i prostora, otpora i mogućih budućnosti poetski su uhvaćene rastom i cvetanjem floralnog amblema koji je postao značenjska ikona nagrade Tajsa. „Mi Romi nosimo taj duh sa nama i to je ono što nas vezuje u radosti i proslavljanju toga ko smo. Zajedno smo Tajsa!“
BIOGRAFIJA
Robert Gabris
Robert Gabris je rođen u Slovačkoj, a živi i radi kao slobodni umetnik u Beču. Diplomirao je na Fakultetu izvođačkih umetnosti u Bratislavi i na Akademiji likovnih umetnosti u Beču. Gabris je često bio u mogućnosti da učestvuje na mnogim međunarodnim izložbama sa raznim romskim organizacijama poput Eriac-a u Berlinu i Njujorku, Agencije za evropska osnovna prava (FRA) u Beču, Akademije Grac u Strazburu, Bukureštu, Parizu i Sarajevu, Fondacije za otvoreno društvo u Pragu, i Višegradskim fondom u Budimpešti.
Gabris se bavi crtežom i gravurom, i opisuje sadržaj svojih dela kao kritiku društva, političko i aktivističko suprotstavljanje identitetskim pitanjima i novim gledištima Roma u evropskom kontestu. Polazna tačka za njegov rad su nove eksperimentalne forme crteža kao otpora protiv isključivanja, homofobije i rasizma.
Pored svog rada, Gabris i predaje anatomski crtež u raznim bečkim institutima. U slobodno vreme crta leševe u bečkom Institutu za anatomiju ali ga takođe zanima i studija kostiju, mesa i cvetova.