We are happy to announce that our gallery‘s opening and the first exhibition Abziehbild Unapplied Arts is featured in Artviewer.net.
"Abziehbild. Unapplied Arts" is the first exhibition in the ARSMONITOR program, in which the visions of 10 artists are intertwined, each unique in their creative approach: Radu Comșa, Dumitru Gorzo, Maxim Liulca, Gili Mocanu, Sorin Neamțu, Radu Pandele, Carmen Rasovszky, Gheorghe Rasovszky, Victoria Zidaru, and Marian Zidaru.
They cover 30 years of contemporary art history, from the '90s to the present. They also represent the geographical areas in which they come from and operate, such as Bucharest, Cluj, and Timișoara. United by a shared passion for imagery, form, and artistic expression, these creators bring their unique visions into the world of "unapplied arts."
This label - an ironic convention - describes a possible cross-border territory between tradition and contemporaneity, blurring the boundary between "high arts" and "applied arts": drawing without a trace, painting without representation, design without functionality, sculpture without rond-bosse, photography without archive, film without a script.
Furthermore, the idea of "unapplied arts" raises the possibility of a reactivation of how the public eye perceives art, emphasising art's biographical and prosthetic function and less the contemplation of pure forms or the social-utilitarian and moralistic instrumentalisation of contemporary art.
October 10, 2023
