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baziscontemporary art space
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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