We are pleased to announce that the exhibition TWO GORZO has been selected to be featured in Artviewer.
The TWO GORZO Exhibition, a duo-show featuring Ioana Gorzo and Dumitru Gorzo, brings forth a unique dialogue between two seemingly opposing artistic forms. The drawings and paintings of the two communicate and complement each other in a less explored territory when it comes to art, radically addressing issues of imagery, with meanings of representation and the phenomenon of the iconic. Despite appearances, the art of the two aligns on the same side of anti-representation.
The TWO GORZO Exhibition initiates a discussion about drawing and painting that challenges the conventions of art history, bringing things closer to a matter of visual studies, as a fundamental interest in contemporary culture. This alternative perspective on art is often obscured by a retro-modernist understanding of painting as a superior technical form of craftsmanship.
In this sense, painting, nostalgically regarded as the “queen of the arts,” appreciated through a series of 20th-century stereotypes such as figurative vs. non-figurative, realistic or abstract, is here questioned in a concrete sense, as a secondary and material support for an immaterial phenomenon – the image.
Excerpt from the Artviewer.net post.
April 1, 2024
