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<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">Atelier 35</span></p>
<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">Strada Selari</span></p>
<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">Bucharest</span></p>
<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">Romania.</span></p>
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<p class=""><b><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">PRESS RELEASE</span></b></p>
<p class=""><b><i><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">‘A State of
Un-Play.’</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><b><i><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> </span></i></b><b style><i style><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">Curated
by Diana Ali (UK)</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">15<sup>th</sup>-28<sup>th</sup> July 2013.</span></p><p class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">Atelier 35, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">Strada Selari, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">Bucharest, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">Romania.</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">Curator and Visual Artist, Diana Ali in
collaboration with Atelier 35 is pleased to present the exhibition <span style>‘A State of Un-Play’</span>;
an exhibition of contemporary art work investigating the ethics of game playing
tactics in our daily lives. <span style> </span></span></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">What does game playing become after the innocence of childhood
imagination? We are often confronted with playing games subconsciously as the
controller or the player whereby we have our own rules, routines and rituals. </span></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span class="" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">Game is defined as adopting goals, rules, challenges and interactions
but as the philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein claims, games can be a misconstrued
meaning of language and the mind. Because we misunderstand language, we use
indirect communication, thought experiments and mind games to get a sense of
one-upmanship to empower or demoralize. What extremes can we go to for feeling
recognition, wanting, acceptance and achievement?</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">Featured international artists exhibit their work to visually explore an
avenue of mind games, strategy and philosophical investigations as well as an
appeal to take part. The exhibition includes, video, film, photography,
installation, interventions, painting and drawing.</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">For a full list of all the artist’s details please visit:</span></p>
<p class=""><b style><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"><a href="http://astateofunplay.blogspot.co.uk/">http://astateofunplay.blogspot.co.uk/</a></span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">Diana Ali: <a href="mailto:alidiana@gmail.com">alidiana@gmail.com</a> / <a href="http://www.dianaali.com/">www.dianaali.com</a> </span></p>
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