Table et Tableau

Table et Tableau raises the issue of opening up (not exhibiting) the "shadow" of the creator and the creation. This kind of opening leads the viewer to a small area of the living archive, full of notes, sketches, disparate objects, where one may find a work's foundation and the formation of the artist's identity.

Aiming to represent various periods and movements in contemporary Romanian art, the exhibition goes as far back as Ilie Pavel, renown for the breakout of the 1970s and establishing the symbolic thread between the afterlife and the idea of a museum archive, to Teodor Graur, identified with the earliest signs of 1970s-1980s postmodernism, up to more recent artists, including Grațian Gâldău, Dumitru Gorzo, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Gili Mocanu, Răzvan Neagoe, Bogdan Pelmuș, Magdalena Pelmuș, Mircea Suciu, representing the heterogeneity of the 1990s and 2000s, and moving toward the 2010s, with artists such as Ioana Gorzo and Radu Pandele.

The living archive of these figures, the traces and imprint of their works gathered in one place, at one table, provide the opportunity for a new picture of the amalgamation, divergence, and polyphony of the movements and ideas about contemporary art in the last 40 years in Romania.