PULBERE A N TO N I U SERBAN
Radu Pulbere - Born in 1963 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Lives and works in Cluj-Napoca. Studies: 1982-1986 studied at the Art Academy, Cluj-Napoca. Currently PhD Professor at the Art and Design University, Cluj-Napoca. Solo Shows: 2016 - Wanderings of the body, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; 2011 - Holderlin, Ein Gesprach mit Bildern, Neuwerk Kunsthalle Konstanz, Germany; 2010 - La Rosa di Nessuno, Galleria Spazio Mirionima, Macerata, Italy; 2008 - Personal/Private, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; 2005 - Paintings, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; 1997 - Paintings, The Boog Gallery, Ijsselstein, Holland; 1995 - Paintings, Visual Artists Union Gallery, Cluj-Napoca; 1994 University of Zwolle, Holland; 1992 - Paintings, Covalenco Gallery, Geldrop, Holland; 1991 - Gizenrooi Gallery, Geldrop, Holland. Group Exhibitions (selection): 2017 - Oppening of the Painter’s Collony, Baia Mare; 2015 - The Annual Art Show of the Visual Artists Union Gallery, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; 2014 - The School of Cluj, BWA Sokol Gallery for Contemporary Art, Nowy Sacz, The Malopolska Art Center, Poland; MB Art Projects, Amsterdam, Holland; 2013 - Romanian Painting Today: Spotlight on The Cluj School of Painting, Crouwel Art Space, MB Art Projects, Amsterdam, Holland; Intact Space Gallery, Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj-Napoca; 2012 - MB Art Projects, Amsterdam, Holland; 2011 - The Meeting Point International Biennale, Arad, Romania; 2010 - Ceață/Fogg/Bruillard, International Art Show at Ioan Sima Museum, Zalău and The Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; 2009 MNAC Bucharest, group Show with acquisition, The National Museum for Contemporary Art, MNAC, Bucharest; 2008 - NeoReal, Show of the School of Cluj, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; 2007 - Artists from Cluj, group Show at Senso Gallery, Bucharest; 2005 - Show of the School of Cluj, Montecatini Terme Museum of Art, Italy; 2004 - Grey Pink, Show of the School of Cluj, Visual Artists Union Gallery, Cluj-Napoca; Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; In the Mirror of Las Meninas, Art Show, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; 2002 Affirmative, Show of the School of Cluj in Visual Artists Union Gallery, ClujNapoca; Incontro a Roma, Gallery of the Academia di Romania, Rome, Italy Works in public collections: Contemporary Art Museum, Bucharest; Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca. Works in private collections: Romania; Holland; Norway; Germany; Japan; Austria; Italy; USA; Sweden.
PULBERE Painting reveals and communicates itself fundamentally by means of metaphysical and meta-narrative contents. What it represents or where it belongs conceptually or stylistically are questions peripheral to its intrinsic value or quality. My works refer to a moment arrested in time, a privileged, personal, and private instant whose elements pertaining to the figurative and physical dimension – surreptitiously give away a psychological dimension.
Eden (detail) | acrylic and oil on canvas | 100 x 80 cm | 2015
Eden | acrylic and oil on canvas | 90 x 140 cm | 2017
Vibrant shapes | acrylic and oil on canvas | 40 x 40 cm | 2015
Serendipity | acrylic and oil on canvas | 60 x 80 cm | 2015
An eyewitness | acrylic and oil on canvas | 100 x 110 cm | 2015
Inseparably connected | acrylic and oil on canvas | 100 x 110 cm | 2014
Red Rainbow | oil on canvas | 80 x 140 cm | 2017
Black mirror | oil on canvas | 30 x 40 cm | 2018
Interior | oil on canvas | 30 x 40 cm | 2018
The Rainbow | oil on canvas | 90 x 140 cm | 2018
Ioana Antoniu - Born in 1964 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Lives and works in Cluj-Napoca. Studies: 1983-1988 studied at the Art Academy of Cluj-Napoca. Currently PhD Professor at Art and Design Department, Art Academy of Cluj-Napoca. Solo Shows: 2016 - Mirage, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; 2013 - Anti-age, Kunsthalle Neuwerk, Konstanz, Germania; 2011 - Holderlin, Kunsthalle Neuwerk, Konstanz, Germania; 2010 - La Rosa di Nessuno, Galleria Spazio Mirionima, Macerata, Italy; 2008 - Image, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, 2005 - Paintings Show, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; 2002 - The Garden, Radio Gallery, Cluj-Napoca; 1997 - Painting Show, Documenta X, Werkgalery, Kassel, Germany; 1997 - Paintings, De Boog Gallery, Ijsselstein, Holland; 1992 Paintings, Covalenco Gallery, Geldrop, Holland; 1991 - Gallerie Gijzenrooi, Geldrop, Holland. Group Exhibitions (selection): 2016 - Water in the Garden, Visual Artists Union Gallery, Bistrița; 2014 - The School of Cluj, BWA Sokol Gallery for Contemporary Art, Nowy Sacz, The Malopolska Art Center, Poland; Safari Art Fair, Bucharest; 2013 - Intact Space Gallery, Fabrica de pensule, Cluj-Napoca; The Meeting Point International Biennale, Arad; 2012 - InspirArt, AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest; 2011 - The Meeting Point International Biennale, Arad; 2010 - Ceața / Fogg / Bruillard, International Art Show at Ioan Sima Museum Zalău and Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; 2009 - Europa Atrium 2009; 2008 NeoReal, Show of the School of Cluj, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; 2007 - The National Show of Painting and Sculpture, at the Parliament Palace, Bucharest; 2006 – Natural / Artificial, International Land Art Show, Cluj-Napoca; 2005 ArtEast, Show of The School of Cluj, Visual Artists Union Gallery, Cluj-Napoca; Show of The School of Cluj, Montecatini Terme Museum of Art, Italy; I Love Pictura, Show of the School of Cluj at the Continental Hotel, Cluj-Napoca; 2004 - Essentia, International Art Show, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; In the Mirror of Las Meninas, Art Show, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; 2003 - The Line of View, Show of the School of Cluj, Visual Artists Union Gallery, Cluj-Napoca; Underground Black, Show of The School of Cluj, Matei House Gallery of Art and Design University, Cluj-Napoca; 2002 - Affirmative, Show of the School of Cluj in Visual Artists Union Gallery, Cluj-Napoca; Incontro a Roma, Galley of the Academia di Romania, Rome, Italy; 2000 - Liber Studiorum, Art Show, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; Painters from Cluj, Culture Palace, Iași, Romania; 1993 Romanian Art, The Zwolle University, Zwolle, Holland; The Romanian Painting and Sculpture Showcase, Dalles Hall, Bucharest; Works in public collections: Contemporary Art Museum, Bucharest; Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca. Works in private collections: Romania, Holland, Austria, Norway, Germany, Italy, Japan, USA, Sweden.
A N TO N I U PAINTING, ART IN GENERAL, SUGGESTS AN EXPRESSIVE INTERPRETATION OF THE WORLD AND OF SOCIAL LIFE, RELEASING IT FROM THE SOLITUDE OF THE STUDIO, CREATING A NEW REALITY, WITH MULTIPLE CREATIVE MEANINGS. SUCCESSIVELY, WE DISCOVER THROUGH THE WORK OF ART, MEANINGS AND AESTHETIC VALUES THAT MAKE US REEVALUATE AND RECONSIDER IT THROUGH THE PRISM OF CONTEMPORANEITY.
Waterfall | Mixed media and embroidery on canvas | 100 x 70 cm | 2015
Under the stars | embroidery and oil on canvas | 80 X 70 cm | 2017
Blossoming | embroidery and oil on canvas | 100 x 70 cm | 2014
Winter Beyond Closed Eyelids | Mixed media on canvas | 100 x 100 cm | 2015
The Remains of the Day | Mixed media and embroidery on canvas | 100 x 100 cm | 2016
Time and light | Mixed media on canvas | 80 x 100 cm | 2017
The End of the Game | Mixed media on canvas | 100 x 100 cm | 2016
Piangete voi? | Mixed media and embroidery on canvas | 100 x 90 cm | 2016
Radu Serban - Born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 1960. Citizen of both Romania and Canada. Residence and studio are in Cluj-Napoca. Professor at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The artist is represented by Teodora Art Gallery in Canada. Education: 1987 - graduated the Institute of Fine Arts “Nicolae Grigorescu”, Bucharest, Romania. Scholarships and research stays: 1997 - 2000 - individual research, Toronto, Canada; 1995 - Scholarship - Madrid, Spain, Reina Sofia Center of Contemporary Art; 1994 - Scholarship - Rome, Italy, Accademia di Romania. Solo exhibitions: 2018 - „Glissando 2”, Painting, “Art Nouveau” Gallery, TîrguMureș, Romania; 2016 - „Glissando”, Painting, “Arcade 24” Art Gallery, Bistrița, Romania; 2013 - “Altera Natura”, Painting, Gallery of Art and Culture Centre, Zalau, Romania; - “Ephemeridae”, Painting, M2 Contemporary Art Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; 2012 - “Reverberations”, Painting, Drawing, Art Object and Multimedia, Sîngeorz-Băi Comparative Art Museum, Romania; 2011 - “Memories. The final image”, Photo and digital print, Mirionima Gallery, Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata, Italia; 2010 - “TransAppearences”, Painting, Drawing, Art Object and Multimedia, Art Museum Cluj-Napoca, Romania; “Recursive Images” - Directions Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Co, U.S.A; 2009 - “Places, Things and Imagined Portraits”, Painting, Union of Artists Gallery Sibiu, Romania; 2008 - “The Box of Memories”, Installation, Multimedia and Painting, Apollo Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania; 2006 - “Traces”, Painting, Art Objects, Multimedia, Art Museum Cluj-Napoca, Romania; 2004 - „Objects from within II”, Painting, Spoon Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada; 2002 - “Objects From Within I”, Painting, Teodora Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada; 1999 - “Paintings & Objects” , Teodora Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada; 1998 “Drawings & Paintings II”, Teodora Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada; 1997“Drawings & Paintings I”, Teodora Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada; 1996 “Desemne”, Pantheon Gallery, Academy of Visual Arts, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; 1994 „Drawing and Painting”, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy Group Exhibitions: 2012 - 2017 - International Symposium of Visual Arts exhibition “Art in the Garden” Art and Culture Centre, Zalau, Romania; 2014 - The exhibition “Art School in Cluj”, Contemporary Art Gallery Sokol, Nowy Sacz, Poland; “Incident III - Accident” international exhibition of contemporary art, Częstochowa Muzeum Gallery Konduktorownia; 2013, 2011 - The exhibition “Lucian Pop Collection II” Museum Brukenthal, Sibiu, Romania; 2012, 2011 - National exhibition “Romanian Graphics’s“ Bucharest, Romania; 2012 - „Illusionary Stills” Teodora Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada; 2009, 2008 - Group exhibition „JasonDean” Art Gallery, London, UK; 2009 - Group Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania; 2002 - International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada; 1999 - Group Exhibition, Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery, Columbus Centre, Toronto, Canada; 1998 - Eleventh Annual Salon of Miniature, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Canada; - Biennial International Miniature Ville - Marie, Quebec, Canada; 1997 - Romanian Painting Exhibition, Gallery De Boog, Ijsselstein, Netherlands
SERBAN You look into the air and the water to find out how many faces they were or weren’t able to mirror. You look for a concentric charm, the coolness of water, for the light more than for the darkness looming over the waters, for the inflexion of the waves that will be filling the sky and the abyss. The earth, the water and the air vibrate as a melting pot of light and darkness. From time to time we find the shadow hiding in forgetfulness, settling into an enlightened sleep. Beings can be seen through the clear water of the day. A place that is alive. Water, a liquid flame that ties the banks together.
The Water VII | acrylic on canvas | 100 x 70 cm | 2015
The Water X | acrylic on canvas | 50 x 70 cm | 2015
The Water IX | acrylic on canvas | 50 x 70 cm | 2015
The Water XIII | acrylic on canvas | 60 x 90 cm | 2015
The Water XIX | acrylic on canvas | 30 x 90 cm | 2015
The Water XV | acrylic on canvas | 50 x 60 cm | 2016
The Water XVI | acrylic on canvas | 60 x 90 cm | 2016
The Water XX | acrylic on canvas | 70 x 70 cm | 2016
The Water XVII | acrylic on canvas | 100 x 100 cm | 2016