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Zsolt BERSZÁN

István BETUKER

BIANCONIGLIO

Ivan DIVANTO

Kyle FITZPATRICK

Adrian GHIMAN

Anna GRAMACCIA

Pavel GROSU

Dan MĂCIUCĂ

Dalma NYIRI

Bandi SASHA

Ioan SBÂRCIU

Gloria SULLI

Rashid URI

Szabolcs VERES

VICE

Simone ZACCAGNINI

HIDDEN FIELD

While thinking of this brief accompanying text, I felt particularly compelled to reflect on the

characteristics of the two territories and of the artists belonging to them: Italy and Romania.

These countries are strongly marked by their different identities which formed throughout

history as a succession of socio-political occurrences. In truth, they are tumultuous countries

which succeeded in providing uncomfortable intensity to their histories.

Both countries have found themselves at decisive moments in culture and civilization, in this

way forming a unique cultural background. Therefore, art is an outcome of time, an

interpretation of life which knows to explore the inexplorable through the creation of new

paths. It knows how to be more free by assuming particular forms, thus reaching definition of

assumptions.

This project is born from the collaboration of two exhibition spaces that are under a mutual

cultural and geo-political profile.

The exhibition takes its cue from the study of these forming situations, linked in-between on a

large basis through transcultural and trans-generational differences that lead us to the

dilemma of the “indefinite space”. Through this aspect is born the space-time, during which

we can become conscious, in-depth, of the particularities of the contemporary abstract and

figurative expressionism in cohabitation with contemporary conceptualism.

These thoughts mean a theoretical content and particularities which leads to determine the

artistic language that forms the structure of the exhibition.

The succession of the images are following a single line that offer a precise and structured

discourse on art through art, proposed by the participating artists: Zsolt BERSZAN, Istvan

BETUKER, BIANCONIGLIO, Ivan DIVANTO, Kyle FITZPATRICK, Adrian GHIMAN, Anna

GRAMACCIA, Pavel GROSU, Dan MACIUCA, Dalma NYIRI, Bandi SASHA, Ioan SBARCIU, Gloria

SULLI, Rashid URI, Szabolcs VERES, VICE, Simone ZACCAGNINI, all of them blending together

through elements of narrative dialog, using colors and materials that brings flexible visions of

composition.

In painting we find evident traces of the experience of perspective and style, close to the

theories of the XX-th century and reused in actual contexts, finally resulting in new meaning.

The visual languages, molded with technical skills, also generate an unexpected read of the

surrounding universe. The identic effects are shown by emotions that overflow with color,

through light, philosophical thoughts and in the end, through forms that confer upon the

exhibited artworks an amazing creator energy.

Finally, the result of the meeting/confrontation of two artistic realities in this exhibition: an

eastern-european and an occidental one, must also be mentioned. Even though opposite, they

join through the work of art-managing, with perspicacity, to generate the weaving of a

network that today drives our gaze to "the expansion of territories.”

Text by Renato Bianchini

Zso l t BERSZÁN

C lu j -Napoca & Cs íksomlyó

www.be r szanzso l t . r o

Untitled, black silicone, concrete, 23x45x20cm, 2013detail >

Untitled, graphite on paper, 150x130cm, 2013

Untitled, graphite on paper, 150x130cm, 2013

I s t ván BETUKER

C lu j -Napoca

www.be t uke r .com

Yellow stream, oil on canvas, 135x135cm, 2013

Rocks, oil on canvas, 90x200cm, 2013

Between trees 1, oil on canvas, 70x95cm, 2014 Roof, oil on canvas, 70x50cm, 2013 >

BIANCONIGLIO

Pesca ra

Untitled, pillowcases, tempera, acrylic, dust, 54x84cm, 2014

Untitled, linen, china, tempera, acrylic, dust, 37x37cm, 2014

Untitled, table cover, tempera, acrylic, coffee, pigment, dust, 116x116cm, 2014< Untitled, sheets, rabbit skin glue, pigment, ink, gouache, dust, 290x210cm, 2014

Ivan DIVANTO

Pesca ra

www.d i van to . i t

Kyle FITZPATRICK

Ber l i n

www.ky l e f i t zpa t r i c k . com

Untitled, mixed media on paper, 77x58cm, 2014

Cadillac Lullaby, mixed media on paper, 69x65cm, 2014

Untitled, mixed media on paper, 74x56cm, 2014Kristallmorgen, mixed media on canvas, 197x148cm, 2013 >

Adr ian GHIMAN

C lu j -Napoca

cop i l u l cug ra f i t . b l ogspo t . r o

www.baz i s . r o

Riot Queen, mixed media, 2014detail >

50X200cm,

Murder star, drawing, 2014Smile for me, drawing, 50X70cm, 2014 >

20X30cm,

Pool party, mixed media, 200x150cm, 2013

Anna GRAMACCIA

Ber l i n

www.annagramacc i a .ne t

Wool, diptych, graphite and marker on engraved paper, 45x65cm, 2014>

Covering, diptych, ink on engraved paper, 60x45cm, 2014>

Pavel GROSU

C lu j -Napoca

pave lg rosu .b l ogspo t . r o

Acronychal painting, oil on canvas, 52x84cm, 2014

Biomorphism, oil on canvas, 40x50cm, 2014

Behind, oil on canvas, 85x110cm, 2014< Cut-off, oil on canvas, 30x50cm, 2013

Dan MĂCIUCĂ

C lu j -Napoca

danmac iuca .b l ogspo t . r o

www.baz i s . r o

Untitled, acrylic and oil, 201450x50cm,

Landscape, acrylic and oil on canvas, 201450x50cm,

Landscape, acrylic and oil on canvas, 201450x50cm,

Untitled, acrylic and oil, 100 2014x90cm,

Da lma NYIRI

C lu j -Napoca

ny i r i da lma . tumb l r. com

Firespitter girl, stereoscopic photography, 2012Chaireaters, stereoscopic photography, 2013 >

Two figures in Coplean, pseudoscopic photography, 2013< Masks on a bush, stereoscopic photography, 2013

Bandi SASHA

C lu j -Napoca

www.baz i s . r o

Untitled, ink and water on paper, 29 2013x21cm,

Untitled, ink and water on paper, 29 2013x21cm,

Untitled, acryl on carton, 29 2013x21cm,

Victor and the panther, ink and water on paper, 29 2013x21cm,

Ioan SBÂRCIU

C lu j -Napoca

www.uad . ro / Ioan_Sbarc i u

Transylvanian Landscape 2, mixed media, 78x120cm, 2014

Transylvanian Landscape 1, mixed media, 78x120cm, 2014

Untitled, mixed media, 150x200cm, 2014

Untitled, mixed media, 150x200cm, 2014

Glor ia SULLI

Pesca ra

g lo r i a su l l i . t umb l r. com

Drachenkampf, polyurethane, netwire, 240x300X270cm, Breathe, polyurethane, netwire, 240x50x45cm, 2014 >

2013

Ali, polyurethane, netwire, 250x140x30cm, 2013< Breathe 1, polyurethane, netwire 82x46x50cm, 2014

Rashid URI

Pesca ra

www. rash idu r i . com

Untitled, oil on canvas, 140x180cm, 2013

Untitled, oil on canvas, 140x180cm, 2013

Untitled, oil on canvas, 140x180cm, 2014detail>

Szabolcs VERES

C lu j -Napoca

www.baz i s . r o

Porthunt, oil on canvas, 201246x38cm,

Steely Glance, oil on canvas, 140x120cm, 2013

Landscape with Woman, oil on canvas, 2013

55x44cm, Black Woman, oil on canvas, 200x13cm, 2013 >

VICE

Pesca ra

www. ina r tev i ce . i t

Otium, Jigsaw puzzle in plastic, worked paper, 10.000 piecesenvironmental dimensions, 2013

Mnemone. Keeper of the collective memory (1000 a.C. – 323 a.C.)clay dried on the sun, 25x8x5cm, 2013 >

Eros e Thanatos, marble chess board, wooden pawns, paint, 40x40x6cm, 2012

Universal Balance, wood, glass, 100x100x100cm, 2014

Simone ZACCAGNINI

Ber l i n

www.s imonezaccagn in i . ne t

Near Drive, graphite on paper, 120x150cm, 2014

Poemetto #2 (O.P.S.), video, 07.27, 2014

< Censorship, biro on paper, 25x20cm, 2012

A Horse With No Name, biro on paper, variable dimension, 2013

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