Lina Țărmure: Tigruletigrule is your solo debut at Arsmonitor Gallery. You mentioned it is the first time you have worked with a curator within a solo show - what does this collaboration mean for an artist like you, who until now has conceived exhibitions around clear themes, bringing together your most recent series of works?
Radu Pandele: I have known Silviu Pădurariu for a long time - we have been dissecting reality together since 2013. But I think an artist only needs a curator for a solo show posthumously; otherwise what they need is someone to write the text, perhaps a scenographer, perhaps assistants or executors. In Tigruletigrule I had the luxury of relinquishing control. Out of respect for these objects, I would not have relinquished it to just anyone. It rarely happens this way. Usually I make a digital model of the gallery space, running simulations to perfection - for an installation, wall paintings, a far less orthodox hanging, scenographic elements. And the paintings, strictly a few, as the main elements. I would probably have been much more invasive, especially since I adore the gallery space - it would have been a very conceptually coherent project-exhibition, but perhaps disconnected from Arsmonitor's exhibition program. Tigruletigrule is a small retrospective of my painting.
