The exhibition Rubin's Vase. Neamțu/Comșa presents a unique dialogue between two contemporary artists from western Romania, each with a completely different approach to painting and the issues of imagery, whose unexpected resonance occurs in the realm of anti-representation.
For Sorin Neamțu, who studied art in Timișoara under Constantin Flondor (2006), drawing and painting are mediated by continuous self-analysis and psycho-biographical self-reference, used as witnesses to his own transformations. Balancing between rational research and emotional contemplation, with a programmatic intensity, the painting process itself becomes a subject of study. Often, the forms and structures he creates emerge at the end of a process where reason and contemplation succumb to a meditative approach.
Radu Comșa, with an artistic education in Cluj and as one of the representatives of the post-2000 generation, stands out for his radical stance against the iconic and narrative elements, which is so characteristic of his contemporaries. For him, painting is a field of inquiry for his own curiosities, a sort of subjective laboratory where traditional tools intertwine-sometimes playfully, sometimes conceptually-with contemporary elements through citation and installation, as well as with applied arts like design and textiles, exploring and exploiting the limitations and deviations of human visual perception.
