Dan Perjovschi: The Horizontal Newspaper: SCHOOL OF TEXT AND IMAGE

A look at Dan Perjovschi’s long-lasting artistic intervention in the public space in
his hometown of Sibiu. Over 12 years of uninterrupted activity, the Horizontal
Newspaper has connected its editions with different locations, from the theatre
festival in

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.
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. 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. Furthermore, as an artistic
experiment, it refutes double standards. 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. 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.