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Irina Botea and Nicolae Comãnescu represent two artistic positions from the young Romanian generation. Opens March 3, 07:30pm.
Irina Botea deals with the term "homeland". She processes her personal experiences with Communism under Ceausescu as a part of the collective Romanian, political heritage. Truths are best identified in Cliché pictures. "Casa Poporului" – House of the People, home to the Romanian Parliament, is the second largest building complex in the world after the Pentagon and is also architectonically classified as valuable. The Museum of contemporary Art shall be housed here in the near future. Irina Botea uses Casa Poporului as a symbol for a difficult past, the golden age of Communism, which stood in stark contrast to the real conditions at that time. In her video work, a baked and decorated Casa-Poporului-Cake is licked up by Swiss cows.
Nicolae Comãnescu's paintings deal with urban landscapes. His paintings combine found-footage materials from digitally manipulated photography and video art. The making aware of art and the discovery of its reception with relish are in the foreground of his narrative. This is achieved by the merging of –sims, i.e. styles such as Pop Art, Neodada, Neo-Byzantinism and the German Neo-Expressivism.
The exhibited works are part of a cycle which covers views of streets. Figuratively speaking, they seem like windows, which convey us into frozen urban landscapes. Memories of reality are rearranged conceptionally and visually.
Short Biographies and Exhibitions (excerpts):
Irina Botea
1970 born in Ploiesti, Romania
1990-95 Studies in Geology
1996-2001 Studies in Art, Bucharest
2004 Chicago Scholarship
2005 Siemens_artLab, Vienna, A
2004 Revolutions Reloaded, Artra Gallery, Milano, I
Atterissage, Paris, F
Central – New Art from New Europe, Salzburg, Graz, A; Bucharest, Rome.; Belgrade, Serb./Mont.
2003 Human Interaction, New Gallery Bucharest, R
Die Zukunft von Balkan ist da, Künstlerhaus Boswil, CH
2002 Light Shadows, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
Coop 2, Museum of cont. Art, Bucharest, R
Nicolae Comãnescu
1968 born
1998 Bucharest Art Academy, Diploma
Since 2002 Curator
2005 Siemens_artLab, Vienna, A
2004 Central – New Art from New Europe, Salzburg, Graz, A; Bucharest, Rome., Belgrade, Serb./Mont.
Nicolae Comanescu – Grand Prix Remix, Nat. Museum, Bucharest
2003 Trieste Contemporanea, Instituto Tommaseo, Trieste
2002 Creativity & cognition, Loughborough University Art Gallery
Moni Lazariston, Thessaloniki, Greece
2001 Videotree, Florenz
2000 Argos project, Vevey, Switzerland
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