Born in Galaţi, Romania, on October 16, 1991, Roxana Ajder is a contemporary painter currently living and working in Cluj-Napoca. Her work addresses issues related to the ambivalent features of the concept of femininity and beauty in contemporary society. She is particularly interested in the plasticity of the human body. In 2020, due to her love of art and determination…
Michele Bressan works with everyday images and objects, told and untold stories of characters from the periphery of society, contemporary myths, and personal histories, distilling them into spectral images of a humanity only he seems to understand. Because time, the most important ally of his artistic pursuits, is always on his side. “If time is the one that follows us…
Michele Bressan is a visual artist based in Bucharest, Romania, known to the public for his photographic projects. His artistic practice encompasses photography, film, and installation art, focusing on documenting aspects of Romanian post-communist reality. Bressan employs the photographic medium as a tool for artistic research, capturing his surroundings through series that resemble a subjective journal or adopting a more…
Wholy Mother September 20, 2021 October 2018. I’m sitting in the garden of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice—Peggy Guggenheim’s former home, now a museum—staring at Jenny Holzer’s work “Garden Bench”, a very long modular bench sculpted from white stone, engraved with a poem. I froze as I read the following lines—lines I still don’t understand why they struck…
On a merely intuitive basis, when thinking about an accumulation of physical stuff we automatically look for a fluid relationship between parts, along a pattern of relative frequencies. This metaphorical space of thought enables us to shift from real space to imaginary space, in a state of endless wonderment about the possibilities and magical dumbness of objects and their accumulation.…
Sorin Prodea (b. 1997) is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist with a strong interest in performative practices. “Growing up in an environment where the past was so present, I’ve always felt caught between two realities. When the past and present coexist, you must learn to cooperate with this duality. As a result, time has become a central aspect of my artistic…
‘How Many Heartbeats in a Footprint’ is a series of 4 large paintings that uses vast numbers of repetitive movements. Each determined number behind each work has a specific meaning and is connected to fundamental stages of the artist’s life. The construction and development of the paintings happen using durational performance. Each of the 4 performances increases gradually in duration,…
ALLReadyMade March 11, 2021 “Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are ‘readymades aided’ and also works of assemblage.” – Marcel DuchampALLreadymade is about things that are all ready there, about things that have probably been already done, about all these and…
Darie Dup January 12, 2020 Darie Dup is a sculptor, painter and installation artist. He graduated from the “Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department in 1983. Since 1992 he has been teaching at the Sculpture Department of the National University of Arts in Bucharest.Dup is one of the most representative artists of his generation, with a well-articulated “personal…