5 art exhibitions to see this month
A pop-art irony, a minimalist monochrome style, collages & music and a news #art season at the museum, a young artist with a different view on world. Scroll down and plan a visit in the galleries. These are those 5 art exhibitions to see this month.
Kulterra Gallery – Cristian Moldovan, Freak Show (until 14th of November 2023). Inspired by the shape of a piggy bank, the artist creates compact volumes inside which manifest various eco/social/political messages with an ironic tone characteristic of pop art. Virtually every character created is a universe in itself, a colorful amalgamation of comic book superheroes, video game avatars, animals, soldiers, iron cars, trinkets and garish typos. “Freak Show” is the first solo exhibition of the visual artist Cristian Moldovan, a graduate of the Bucharest National University of Arts in the art pedagogy department. (www.kulterra.art)
Celula de Artă – along with the performances and theatre plays, look at the exhibition “Some things (should not) be said” signed by the artist Alex Manea and curated by Daniel Loagăr, which will take at the Bragadiru Palace (Calea Rahovei no. 147 – 153). This exhibition represents a creative amalgam in which the artist’s two projects, “Feelings” and “V.I.D” are brought together. The exhibition can be visited until December 1, 2023. “Feelings” explores the depths of the complexity of human feelings, the subjective experiences that vary from individual to individual. On the other hand, “V.I.D” brings to the fore significant historical data from the evolution of humanity, with concrete information.
PLUS: on November 10, the pop-up window in the Kulterra gallery (Str. Știrbey Vodă no. 104 – 106) will host the opening of the exhibition “Versiuni” by the artist Oana Zbanț. Through this exhibition, the artist aims to talk about psychological conflicts, evolution and how people seek solutions to become better.
Gaep Gallery – Cătălin Pîslaru – “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” – until 25th of November 2023. The exhibition, whose title is a direct quote from The Shining (1980, directed by Stanley Kubrick), presents for the first time new works by the Düsseldorf-based artist. Cătălin Pîslaru works in series that have as their starting point his fascination with color and drawing; he sketches his compositions digitally and the final works preserve the precision of the digital visual language, but also include the marks of classical painting techniques. (gaepgallery.com – str. Giuseppe Garibaldi 8)
IOMO Gallery – Emma Păvăloaia “The Garden of Earthly Discontents” (until 30 of November 2023) – proposes a plural figurative discourse, articulated along the lines of neo-surrealism, in which the landscapes of collective human tragedies are decorated with the objects that refer to personal micro-dramas. Emma Păvăloaia integrates the remnants of personal experiences into her post-apocalyptic frames. Dismembered human bodies next to household objects – a bicycle, a tree, detergent bottles and washing racks – are all collocated in sublunar orchards, mostly charred and populated with dysgenic plants and animals. (https://iomogallery.com/)
Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) – the fall 2023/spring 2024 season has started (until 31 March 2024). The highlights of the new season are…
1. Retrosepctive exhibition of Alma Redlinger – “Loss of innocence”.
2. The installation “Patrimoniu”, from artist Eugen Raportoru (painting, sculpture, installation) – a memorial dedicated to the place destroyed when House of the People was built.
3. “Leviathan. Into the depths of the museum” – multidisciplinary project. The space is designed as an open labyrinth, with enclaves for temporary activities (thematic exhibitions, educational workshops, conferences).
4. The curator Anca Mihuleț presents “The Future Superhero Chronicles” – a group of 14 artists exhibition. Visuality, architecture, choreography, engineering, performance and writing.
5. Victoria Zidaru, “Day One” – an installation made out of textiles and vegetal fabric.
6. Felix Aftene, “Dali’s mustache and other colors”, a multi-disciplinary collaboration with the write Lucian Dan Teodorovici and Andrei Cozlac (video), Paul Pintilie (music), Gabi Dimitriu (NFT). (mnac.ro)
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