SORIN ILFOVEANU
Pânzele lui Sorin Ilfoveanu sunt dominate de reprezentări care iau în considerare atracția umană pentru schimbarea aparențelor. Desenele artistului arată preocuparea pentru eul profund, eliberat de prejudecăți și așază mai presus de timpuri și spații. Simplitatea stilistică este un mod de a fi al artistului. Admirabila gramatică a formelor, arta desenelor maestrului Sorin Ilfoveanu animă […]
NICU ILFOVEANU
Active in the field of photography, film and photo books, Nicu Ilfoveanu occupies a particular role in contemporary art in Romania. He graduated from the National University of Arts in Bucharest, where he currently teaches photography. His works are characterized by the unexpected and unpredictable play between the personal and the documentary, between the sublime and the trivial, between the obvious and the hidden.
CLAUDIU CIOBANU
În proiectele sale, Claudiu Ciobanu se observă o amprentă a propriilor experiențe, abordând teme precum memoria, spațiul, timpul, realitățile imaginare, toate acestea centrate pe autoreflecție și introspecție. Cercetarea lui nu se concentrează pe emoția adusă de opera sa, ci mai degrabă pe căutarea adevărului și încercarea de a ajunge la claritate, acea sinteză posibil imposibilă […]
LEVANT
Carried by the passion for Catalan art, medieval miniatures and Byzantine lines, the artist Sorin Ilfoveanu stopped in the Levant. A Levant that he did not see, did not touch, but that he felt. He caught its essence in the colour of old paper and the smell of inks. The medieval intrigues found in literature and history fascinated the artist and challenged him to feel and outline the atmosphere of the Levant. He expressed it through a cursive and undulating line that tells the story of harsh, bloody, erotic or tender scenes.
CROSS THE LAKE IN A SILVER PLATE
Artista Miruna Radovici în colaborare cu Roxana Morar și Sara Tayari pornesc într-un proces explorativ ce are ca subiect apa și reîntoarcerea către raportul pur, ancestral dintre om și apă. Fără a căuta soluții ecologice sau răspunsuri la întrebări legate de mediu și transformările acestuia, cele trei artiste propun o modalitate imersivă de a crea o experiență vizuală originală precum și o implicare senzorială autentică.
On Olt river – a journey with Ștefan Câlția
The journey is a search, an endeavor of the one who wants to reach or become. The pace of the traveller differs according to their destination. The length of the traveller's step is the intensity of their desire. But when you travel by water? Then the step turns into floating.
SOUNDS LIKE A BOOK
De la începuturile sale, Sounds like a Book s-a concentrat pe conversia sunetului într-o carte, configurându-se, în comunitatea românească, ca prima încercare de a aduce aceste două medii împreună.Sounds like a book este o platformă de book making și self-publishing, care se adresează celor interesați de carte ca un mediu de expresie artistică. După cum sugerează numele ales, tema principală este reprezentarea vizuală a sunetului.
Objects of restauration
Heritage restoration also consists of gestures and actions related to education. The recovery of a smithy from the village of Apața, relocated to the village of Șona and rechristened "Lazarus' smithy", a concrete thing, carried out together with the villagers as an assumed exercise of reviving some social ties, in analogy with the resurrected Lazarus. A blacksmith needs an anvil and a hammer, the rest of the tools, dozens or maybe hundreds, and he can make them himself in the forge according to his needs, the artist tells some visitors of the forge, emphasizing the ideas of craft and craftsmanship.
SOLARIS
If in Lem's novel, Solaris, the fictional living planet, was able to communicate telepathically with space explorers and probe their unconscious, in the current exhibition it becomes a screen capable of reflecting the artist's fears and perplexities in the face of an uncertain planetary future. What is the future of humanity? In what kind of social organization will children live in the coming decades? What can we learn from the recent history of our human footprint on nature?
GLASSWORKS
"One of my first memories is from when I was about three or four years old when I was running barefoot on the couches, as we call the benches in front of the windows, and above my head was the row of icons and above the icons was the dish shelf in which clay jugs were hung and the glass jugs. Early in the morning, as the sun rose over Olt and over the mountains, the rays penetrated through the window and stopped in these glass jugs. There weren't many, I think there were about 10‒12 hanging up and you could only see little glimmers; the icons also flashed. I think that's when part of the mystery of these objects settled in me." (Ștefan Câlția, "Fragments from discussions with the painter and glass artisans" from the volume Glassworks. Approaching a craft)