From Mere Abstract to Almost Figurative @ Zorzini Gallery

From Mere Abstract to Almost Figurative @ Zorzini Gallery

From Mere Abstract to Almost Figurative @ Zorzini Gallery

From Mere Abstract to Almost Figurative @ Zorzini Gallery
7 Mai, 19:00


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Zorzini Gallery prezintă: From Mere Abstract to Almost Figurative
Un Group Show de: Radu Comșa, Ioan Popdan, Florin Ștefan
Produs împreună cu Foundaţia Culturală Intact
Vernisaj Joi 7 Mai ora 19.00
Str. Sfintii Apostoli nr. 44, corp A, etaj 3

Expoziția aduce laolaltă trei artiști care abordează pictura în feluri aparent distincte: prin examinarea critică a calităților ei materiale, a gramaticii simbolice și a limbajului formal (Radu Comșa); prin contemplarea abstractă, care operează cu inefabilul (Ioan Popdan); prin conversația esențială cu propria-i istorie și cu condiționările legate de medium (Florin Ștefan). Cele trei căi se întâlnesc în planul absolut al abstracțiunii, acolo unde pictura devine deopotrivă aluzie și acord formal. (Daria Dumitrescu)

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Zorzini Gallery presents: From Mere Abstract to Almost Figurative
A Group Show by: Radu Comșa, Ioan Popdan, Florin Ștefan

Produced together with Intact Cultural Foundation
Opening Thursday 7th of May at 7 PM
44 Sfintii Apostoli Street, building A, floor 3

„How I have been deceived! I was deluded by the painting into thinking that the figures were not painted but were real beings, moving and loving – at any rate I shout at them as though they could hear and I imagine that I hear some response – and you did not utter a single word to turn me back from my mistake, being as much overcome as I was and unable to free yourself from the deception and the stupefaction induced by it. So let us look at the details of the painting; for it really is a painting before which we stand.” (Philostratus the Elder, Imagines, 1.28 Hunters)

The show brings together three artists who approach painting in seemingly unrelated ways: through a critical examination of its material qualities, symbolic grammar and formal language (Radu Comșa); through abstract contemplation, by processing the ineffable (Ioan Popdan); through an intrinsic conversation with its own history and conditions as a medium (Florin Ștefan). These three paths meet in the absolute plane of abstraction, where painting becomes both allusion and formal consonance. (Daria Dumitrescu)

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