‘STATE OF PLAY’ brings together works of painting and installation by Adriana Florea Băloiu, Ioana Băltan, Ștefan Radu Crețu, Edith Torony and Gloria Aldea (11y/o) in the upcoming exhibition held by Go Art Projects in the new location in Corbeanca, a Bucharest suburb, in a rural area.
Go Art Projects currently embraces a less formal aproach of presenting established, emerging and aspiring kids artists in a freindly and unpretentios way. Starting 2024, Go Art Projects activates as an artist run space managed by Adriana Florea Baloiu and aims to create opportunities for artists to show their practice in a cozy atmosphere, to encourage and support the youngest artists and to engage with the local community in an open dialogue, trying to grow the interest in visual arts and art education.
Go Art Projects is a Romanian Contemporary Art Platform, founded in 2014, at the initiative of Adriana Florea Băloiu and Ovidiu Băloiu, with a focus on promoting the work of emerging and established visual artists. Since inception, Go Art Projects has operated as a nomad gallery, with exhibitions held in temporary or pop-up locations.
STATE OF PLAY
Adriana Florea Băloiu
Ioana Băltan
Ștefan Radu Crețu
Edith Torony
Gloria Aldea (11y/o)
Curator: Adriana Florea Băloiu
Go Art Projects
Arcadei 3, Corbeanca
Opening: September 6, 2024.
18.30 – 22.00
About artists:
Adriana Florea Băloiu (b. 1979), visual artist, founder and curator of Go Art Projects and co-founder of Go Contemporary, Bucharest lives and works in Corbeanca, Romania. She is also the founder and art teacher of Go Art Kids, Corbeanca. Adriana is a member of the Romanian Plastic Artists Union since 2015. In 2018, she is rewarded with “Mihail Grecu” award for painting by the Plastic Artists Union from the Republic of Moldova and Woman ART Award 2017 awarded by Musa International Art Space, Paris. She was a member of the International Selection Committee of Florence Biennale 2017 and she organized and curated many exhibitions. Adriana had 11 solo shows, both in Romania and abroad and exhibited in over 60 group exhibitions. In 2024 she was invited to repesent Romania as an artist and curator of the Romanian Pavillion in Egypt, at EHAF, second edition – Empower Her Art Forum held at NMEC – The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo. Through painting, installation, objects, photograpy and collage, Adriana’s work explores human mind and behavioral interlelations. Reccurent subjects in her practice illustrate human duality, mind and soul fragility and strange ways of interconnecting, that so often fail into stereotypes, absurdism, superficiality, social obedience.
Ioana Baltan (b. Dragomirești, Dâmbovița) lives and works în London. She attended The National University of Arts, Bucharest, where she obtained a BA degree in painting in 2015. The same year, Baltan obtained the Teaching Training Department’s BA degree issued by the same institution. She continued her studies at The Brera Fine Arts Academy Milan with a scholarship and got an MA Degree in Strategies of Creation in Painting released by the National University of Arts Bucharest. Baltan’s paintings reveal her strong preoccupation with contemporary approaches to the female figure. Her large scale compositions are thought as a body of visual research on portraying feminine archetypes with a strong focus on how these subjects were depicted overtime as angelic beauty icons, grotesque monsters or recently as animated plastic simulacra. Ioana’s urban goddesses are surrounded by fantastic landscapes decorated with cosmic elements, wild fauna all of them shrouded with artificial lights.
Stefan Radu Cretu (b. 1983) studied at the Art and Design University in Cluj and graduated from the Ceramic-Glass-Metal department in 2006. In 2005, he received an Erasmus grant for one year at the Fine Art Academy in Wroclaw, Poland. In 2008, he earned his Master’s degree in sculpture from the National University of Arts in Bucharest. In 2016, Cretu completed his Ph.D. in Visual Arts at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. Stefan Cretu’s works emphasize an obsession with progress and the fusion between nature and technology, which appears to be the ultimate goal of humankind. He regarded technology as a force that currently has the most significant impact on people’s lives. However, despite continuous progress, it has proven to be deceptive as it does not always align with the genuine needs of the individual. Progress has given rise to a complex human being with heightened material needs, one who is more captivated by the artificial and fruitless. This complex individual was consistently dissatisfied, less secure, and less free. Currently, people are relinquishing the essentials of becoming artificial beings. Man is no longer the creator of technology but rather one who is dependent on and controlled by it. The evolution-obsessed individual makes numerous errors in the pursuit of improving nature and, at times, these errors are taken to extremes. The artist aspires to return to nature, suggesting simplicity in everyday life. We can recognize Stefan Cretu’s artwork as bi- or tridimensional, with varying volumes and abstract interpretations of different species from our world’s evolution. WORKS IN ART COLLECTIONS Beelden aan Zee Museum Harteveltstraat Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands Boynton Beach Art in Public Places, City of Boynton Beach, Florida USA Private collections in USA, Canada and Germany
Edith Torony was born in 1988 in Timisoara, where she lives and works. She graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara. She earned her MA in the same field from the same institution in 2012. She has been a member of the Romanian Union of Artists, Timisoara branch, since 2011. She presented her works in solo shows at Senso Gallery, Bucharest in 2022; Estopia Gallery, Lugano, 2021; Five Plus Gallery, Wien, Estopia Gallery, Bucharest and Forma Gallery, Deva, in 2019; Pygmalion Gallery in 2018; Senso Gallery, Bucharest in 2017 and Calpe Gallery, in 2014, Timișoara, among others. She has participated in numerous group shows at Triade Gallery and Helios Gallery in Timișoara; Museum of Art, Arad; Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; European Parliament, Brussels; Marzia Frozen Gallery, Berlin etc. She won the first prize for Painting at the Meeting Point International Biennial in Arad in 2017. Also in 2017, through Senso Gallery, she participated at the Positions Art Fair, Berlin.
Gloria Aldea is a 11 years old artist and studies at the French High School Anna de Noailles in the 6th grade and she also takes painting classes at Go Art Kids Corbeanca. She is passionate about painting and singing.
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