Bloomberg Space, London, May 2009
Black marker on window and videoprojection

Courtesy the artist

At Bloomberg Space, inspired by the thought of Bloomberg as a purveyor of information, and by the need for transparency in the transmission of information, he has been drawing on the glass windows.

Some of his drawings in previous exhibitions have had a single life, while others have been allowed to develop over time.

An initial drawing of an artist lying on the floor with a hammer and sickle stabbed in his back has a group of observers saying “Nice Show”, suggesting an ignorance of what the artist might actually have been living through. A later version, reflecting the disillusion of the more recent era, has the same stabbed artist confronted by a similar figure with a credit card in his back, and a caption that reads “We have a lot in common.”

Ironic and sceptical, Perjovschi’s perceptions are highly political and exceptionally well-informed. The ideas that lie behind the drawings, he explains, are collected from everyday experience, but particularly from newspapers, national and foreign. They come “from talks, sightseeing, rumours, newspaper articles, gossip, television, jokes, major stories, insignificant stories, global news, local events, everything.” He never stops working, drawing incessantly in a series of notebooks. Then, “out of two hundred drawings, twenty will make it to the wall.”
(Excerpt from Richard Gott introduction text)