Haptic Challenges . Visuality and Experiment in Contemporary Art .
16 Portraits
Provocările materialității . Vizualitate și experiment în arta contemporană .
16 portrete
Haptische Herausforderungen .
Sichtbarkeit und Experiment in der gegenwärtigen Kunst . 16 Porträts
Opening: 2.7.2023, 2 PM
Dates: 2.7. – 26.10.2023
Artists: Ioana Beju-Miller, Diana Butucariu, Megan Dominescu, Darie Dup, Vincentiu Grigorescu, Gloria Grati, Dorina Horatau, Nicolae Moldovan, Alexandru Pasat, Cristina Popescu Russu, Liviu Russu, Thórdís Alda Sigurdardóttir, Iris Stoff, Dan Vezentan, Marian Zidaru, Victoria Zidaru
The exhibition is held in the unconventionally charming space of the old barn of the Cetate domain near the Danube, presenting 16 visual contemporary artists who, although extremely different in terms of vision, generation and artistic volition, are bound by two major dimensions: the need to experiment with organic materials (wood, textiles and ceramics) and a determined focus to emphasise the haptic materiality of the objects they created.
The result of experiment is visible in the transgressions of the traditional media of fine arts: sculpture tends sometimes to be bidimensional, the ceramics objects often get monumental and the textiles create impressive installations. The haptic organicity of all the selected objects is accentuated by the heavy materiality of the exhibition space itself, which may be regarded as the opposite of the conventional “white cube”.
Curator: Ruxandra Demetrescu PhD
Images: Cetate atmosphere / Joana Grevers with Ruxandra Demetrescu and Victoria Zidaru in the exhibition / Dan Vezentan – Harvesting Structure No. 2 / installation view – photo D. Vezentan / Darie Dup – Circle sliced in 3, 2014, wood, steel, 220 x 220 x 110 cm / Cetate atmosphere / Cristina Popescu Russu – ARHIPELAG, Limoges porcelain, black marble, 6 pieces, variable size, total 300 x 160 x 20 cm / Iris Stoff – “panta rhei“, detail, 2023, Litography on porcelain, 36 pieces, totlal 90 x 360 cm / Alexandru Pasat – Pillars, 2022, poplar wood, 9 pieces, 270 x 6 x 6 cm each / installation view – photo D. Vezentan
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