Zsolt BERSZÁN István BETUKER BIANCONIGLIO Ivan DIVANTO Kyle FITZPATRICK Adrian GHIMAN Anna GRAMACCIA Pavel GROSU Dan MĂCIUCĂ Dalma NYIRI Bandi SASHA Ioan SBÂRCIU Gloria SULLI Rashid URI Szabolcs VERES VICE Simone ZACCAGNINI
b a z is contemporary art space
Pescara, via Raiale 161
HIDDEN FIELD
While thinking of this brief accompanying text, I felt particularly compelled to reflect on the characteristics of the two territories and of the artists belonging to them: Italy and Romania. These countries are strongly marked by their different identities which formed throughout history as a succession of socio-political occurrences. In truth, they are tumultuous countries which succeeded in providing uncomfortable intensity to their histories. Both countries have found themselves at decisive moments in culture and civilization, in this way forming a unique cultural background. Therefore, art is an outcome of time, an interpretation of life which knows to explore the inexplorable through the creation of new paths. It knows how to be more free by assuming particular forms, thus reaching definition of assumptions. This project is born from the collaboration of two exhibition spaces that are under a mutual cultural and geo-political profile. The exhibition takes its cue from the study of these forming situations, linked in-between on a large basis through transcultural and trans-generational differences that lead us to the dilemma of the “indefinite space”. Through this aspect is born the space-time, during which we can become conscious, in-depth, of the particularities of the contemporary abstract and figurative expressionism in cohabitation with contemporary conceptualism. These thoughts mean a theoretical content and particularities which leads to determine the artistic language that forms the structure of the exhibition. The succession of the images are following a single line that offer a precise and structured discourse on art through art, proposed by the participating artists: Zsolt BERSZAN, Istvan BETUKER, BIANCONIGLIO, Ivan DIVANTO, Kyle FITZPATRICK, Adrian GHIMAN, Anna GRAMACCIA, Pavel GROSU, Dan MACIUCA, Dalma NYIRI, Bandi SASHA, Ioan SBARCIU, Gloria SULLI, Rashid URI, Szabolcs VERES, VICE, Simone ZACCAGNINI, all of them blending together through elements of narrative dialog, using colors and materials that brings flexible visions of composition. In painting we find evident traces of the experience of perspective and style, close to the theories of the XX-th century and reused in actual contexts, finally resulting in new meaning. The visual languages, molded with technical skills, also generate an unexpected read of the surrounding universe. The identic effects are shown by emotions that overflow with color, through light, philosophical thoughts and in the end, through forms that confer upon the exhibited artworks an amazing creator energy. Finally, the result of the meeting/confrontation of two artistic realities in this exhibition: an eastern-european and an occidental one, must also be mentioned. Even though opposite, they join through the work of art-managing, with perspicacity, to generate the weaving of a network that today drives our gaze to "the expansion of territories.”
Text by Renato Bianchini
Zsolt BERSZÁN Cluj-Napoca & Csíksomlyó www.berszanzsolt.ro
Untitled, black silicone, concrete, 23x45x20cm, 2013 detail >
Untitled, graphite on paper, 150x130cm, 2013
Untitled, graphite on paper, 150x130cm, 2013
Istvรกn BETUKER Cluj-Napoca www.betuker.com
Yellow stream, oil on canvas, 135x135cm, 2013
Rocks, oil on canvas, 90x200cm, 2013
Between trees 1, oil on canvas, 70x95cm, 2014 Roof, oil on canvas, 70x50cm, 2013 >
BIANCONIGLIO Pescara
Untitled, pillowcases, tempera, acrylic, dust, 54x84cm, 2014
Untitled, linen, china, tempera, acrylic, dust, 37x37cm, 2014
Untitled, table cover, tempera, acrylic, coffee, pigment, dust, 116x116cm, 2014 < Untitled, sheets, rabbit skin glue, pigment, ink, gouache, dust, 290x210cm, 2014
Ivan DIVANTO Pescara www.divanto.it
Kyle FITZPATRICK Berlin www.kylefitzpatrick.com
Untitled, mixed media on paper, 77x58cm, 2014
Cadillac Lullaby, mixed media on paper, 69x65cm, 2014
Untitled, mixed media on paper, 74x56cm, 2014 Kristallmorgen, mixed media on canvas, 197x148cm, 2013 >
Adrian GHIMAN Cluj-Napoca copilulcugrafit.blogspot.ro www.bazis.ro
Riot Queen, mixed media, 50X200cm, 2014 detail >
Murder star, drawing, 20X30cm, 2014 Smile for me, drawing, 50X70cm, 2014 >
Pool party, mixed media, 200x150cm, 2013
Anna GRAMACCIA Berlin www.annagramaccia.net
Wool, diptych, graphite and marker on engraved paper, 45x65cm, 2014 >
Covering, diptych, ink on engraved paper, 60x45cm, 2014 >
Pavel GROSU Cluj-Napoca pavelgrosu.blogspot.ro
Acronychal painting, oil on canvas, 52x84cm, 2014
Biomorphism, oil on canvas, 40x50cm, 2014
Behind, oil on canvas, 85x110cm, 2014 < Cut-off, oil on canvas, 30x50cm, 2013
Dan MĂCIUCĂ Cluj-Napoca danmaciuca.blogspot.ro www.bazis.ro
Untitled, acrylic and oil, 50x50cm, 2014
Landscape, acrylic and oil on canvas, 50x50cm, 2014
Landscape, acrylic and oil on canvas, 50x50cm, 2014
Untitled, acrylic and oil, 100x90cm, 2014
Dalma NYIRI Cluj-Napoca n y i r i d a l m a . t u m b l r. c o m
Firespitter girl, stereoscopic photography, 2012 Chaireaters, stereoscopic photography, 2013 >
Two figures in Coplean, pseudoscopic photography, 2013 < Masks on a bush, stereoscopic photography, 2013
Bandi SASHA Cluj-Napoca www.bazis.ro
Untitled, ink and water on paper, 29x21cm, 2013
Untitled, ink and water on paper, 29x21cm, 2013
Untitled, acryl on carton, 29x21cm, 2013
Victor and the panther, ink and water on paper, 29x21cm, 2013
Ioan SBÂRCIU Cluj-Napoca www.uad.ro/Ioan_Sbarciu
Transylvanian Landscape 2, mixed media, 78x120cm, 2014
Transylvanian Landscape 1, mixed media, 78x120cm, 2014
Untitled, mixed media, 150x200cm, 2014
Untitled, mixed media, 150x200cm, 2014
Gloria SULLI Pescara g l o r i a s u l l i . t u m b l r. c o m
Drachenkampf, polyurethane, netwire, 240x300X270cm, 2013 Breathe, polyurethane, netwire, 240x50x45cm, 2014 >
Ali, polyurethane, netwire, 250x140x30cm, 2013 < Breathe 1, polyurethane, netwire 82x46x50cm, 2014
Rashid URI Pescara www.rashiduri.com
Untitled, oil on canvas, 140x180cm, 2013
Untitled, oil on canvas, 140x180cm, 2013
Untitled, oil on canvas, 140x180cm, 2014 detail>
Szabolcs VERES Cluj-Napoca www.bazis.ro
Porthunt, oil on canvas, 46x38cm, 2012
Steely Glance, oil on canvas, 140x120cm, 2013
Landscape with Woman, oil on canvas, 55x44cm, 2013 Black Woman, oil on canvas, 200x13cm, 2013 >
VICE Pescara www.inartevice.it
Otium, Jigsaw puzzle in plastic, worked paper, 10.000 pieces environmental dimensions, 2013 Mnemone. Keeper of the collective memory (1000 a.C. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 323 a.C.) clay dried on the sun, 25x8x5cm, 2013 >
Eros e Thanatos, marble chess board, wooden pawns, paint, 40x40x6cm, 2012
Universal Balance, wood, glass, 100x100x100cm, 2014
Simone ZACCAGNINI Berlin www.simonezaccagnini.net
Near Drive, graphite on paper, 120x150cm, 2014
Poemetto #2 (O.P.S.), video, 07.27, 2014
Censorship, biro on paper, 25x20cm, 2012 < A Horse With No Name, biro on paper, variable dimension, 2013
b a z is contemporary art space
Cluj-Napoca , F.D.P. - Fabrica de Pensule, Henri Barbusse 79-61 Berlin , Moosdorfstrasse 7-9
ultrastudio Pescara, via Raiale 161