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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,2010
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VOLUME 123 ISSUE 18
KANSAS 28, NO.15 GEORGIA TECH 25
AFRESH START
Freshmen Jordan Webb and James Sims sparked Kansas to an upset over ranked Georgia Tech
Freshman quarterback Jordan Webb is congratulated by fans following Kansas' 28-25 upset victory over Georgia Tech on Saturday afternoon. The Jayhawks broke an eight-game losing streak that dated back to October, defeating a top 25 team at home for the first time since 2003. Webb threw for 179 yards, three touchdowns and an interception in his first game as a Jayhawk.
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CONSERVATION | 3A
Lawrence will soon have new meters
Westar announced the shift from mechanical to digital meters during the energy conservation fair on Saturday.
SEE MORE COVERAGE IN THE FOOTBALL REWIND ON PAGES 4-5B
Volleyball photo galleries
Check out three photo galleries for coverage of the latest games.
CULTURE|3A
Artists showcase work at Indian Art Market
The annual event was a success during the weekend.
CLUBS|2A
Cultural Indian Club to host events for Ganesha
Club will celebrate Indian festival for Hindi god this week in Lawrence.
INDEX
Classifieds...7B
Crossword...4A
Cryptoquips...4A
Opinion...5A
Sports...1B
Sudoku...4A
Artist-In-Residence, Dan Perjovski, works on his exhibit in the Spencer Museum of Art's Central Court Friday afternoon. Romanian-born Perjovski will be at KU until Sept. 16th. While here, he will share his art and reflections with students and the community through his exhibit and artist talks.
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ARTS
Simple drawings, complex ideas
Exhibit at Spencer illuminates artist's social philosophies
BY NICOLAS ROESLER proesler@kansan.com
nroesler@kansan.com
A man with a thick black and gray beard stands 20-feet high on a cherry picker in the Spencer Museum of Art, drawing on the walls. He wears a green fly-fishing jacket, which holds everything he needs — a few markers and a notebook.
His arms move quickly and deliberately, like a teacher at a chalkboard. He draws simple figurines, as if the walls were just a giant comic strip. Somehow, a clear message comes through.
"I have my own language," Dan Perjovschi said. "These are my words, and I recombine them into new phrases."
Perijovschi is the artist-in-residence at the Spencer Museum of Art. He has been drawing in the central court of the museum for almost two weeks now, creating walls of statements and observations through cartoon-looking, graffiti-style art. His exhibit, Dan Perijovschi Central Court, will officially open Thursday and run until Feb. 6, 2011. His artwork will stay on the walls until the end of the exhibit.
Perjovschi mixes political messages with simple observations of life. One of his favorite and recurring drawings depicts a man in a business suit pointing and yelling at a young skateboarder. The speech bubble coming from the man in the business suit reads "I was at Woodstock".
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"It's not conventional art," Rachel
Schmidt, a freshman from Paola,
said as she looked up at the walls of
the Spencer. "It's just true, he puts
things in a way that can relate to."
It is that connection that Dan looks for. He said that everything he writes or draws, we have all thought about at some point. He said he has just trained himself to capture those thoughts in his notebook.
Walls have always been a part of Perjovschi's life. He was born in 1961 in the city of Sibiu, Romania, the same year the Berlin Wall was erected.
Periiovschi said living in communist Romania was a life of restrictions. The government controlled all sources of information, blocking what Periiovschi starved for. He said he survived some of the worst dictatorial regimes of communist Romania where there
"It was a culture of missing." Periowis said.
was no freedom to travel or read certain books.
There would be periods where his family had no milk or bread. His working-class parents somehow managed to send all three of their children to universities, where Perjowski studied painting.
"It is new all the time," Lia said. "We had a common idea to do what we want, a kind of ambition to contribute to our context."
While there, he started a sort of underground art project with his wife, Lia, whom he met at a special art school when they were 10 years old.
Because of censorship in Romania, each of Dan's art shows went through three different censorship committees before the public could see it. So, he began private
CENTRAL COURT
Dan Perjovschi's "Central Court" exhibit will officially open Thursday night. Perjovschi will speak at 5 p.in. at the SMA Auditorium inside the museum.
The exhibit will run from Thursday to Feb.6, 2011.
showings in his loft in Bucharest.
allowing us to look in business.
Then, in 1990, Perjovski helped begin and run the first independent magazine in Romania called "Revista 22," named after a key date in the Romanian revolution: Dec. 22, 1989.
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