The personal exhibition of the artist Alexandru Rădvan, “Skin On Skin”, designed for the space of the Constanţa Art Museum, brings together 10 (ten) large-scale paintings made in 2023 – four of which are 3 (three) meters long each – and a series of drawings that foreshadows pictorial developments.
Alexandru Rădvan is one of the most prolific and important artists of the 2000s generation. He has an impressive exhibition track record in museums from Romania and abroad with his large-scale paintings.
Built on the binomial “nude/nudity” and “empty/emptiness”, the exhibition continues the concerns of recent years regarding the body, desires and the intimacy of passionate-reflexive moments. This time, the artist Alexandru Rădvan departs from the mythological narrative and enters an area representing a personal narrative, a kind of intimate diary, in which the viewer becomes a self-contained voyeur in the pictorial context. The scenes depicted tell the story of the eternal interpenetration of two beings in a dreaming or semi-awake state. “Skin on Skin” is an exhibition about the visualization of touches, tactility, reverie and laziness.
The personal exhibition “Skin on skin” signed by Alexandru Rădvan, curated by Mark Gisbourne, is the first artistic manifestation of the anniversary year “20 years of Anaid Art Gallery 2004 – 2024”. After every ten years Anaid Art Gallery made a change, because change means evolution: 2004 – Bucharest I 2015 – Berlin I 2024 – Baden-Baden.
Alexandru Rădvan (b. 1977, Bucharest) is a graduate of the Bucharest University of Arts, Faculty of Painting, Prof. Florin Mitroi’s class and lecturer at the UNArte painting department. With a doctorate in the “Science of the Image” conferred by the University of Bucharest, Alexandru Rădvan starts exhibiting constantly, since the end of 1998, being one of the outstanding representatives of Romanian contemporary art from the 2000s.
With numerous personal and group exhibitions, Alexandru Rădvan exhibited in important contemporary art centers, museums and galleries in Berlin, New York, Rome, Paris, among which we mention: “Days of a Colossus”, Art Museum, Craiova (2023) , “Thoughts about the sun and a myth”, Minovici Museum, Bucharest (2022), “Mythical Flesh”, Anaid Art Gallery, Berlin (2021); “The Sculptor’s Workshop”, Art Museum, Arad (2018), “Moving Monuments – Barbarian”, French Cultural Institute, Bucharest (2018), “Divine decadence” Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, Belgium (2016), “Artistic education from Bucharest and Romanian art after 1950”, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest (2015), “Badly Happy”, Marina Abramović Institute West (The Performance Art Institute), San Francisco, USA (2010), “Messiahs”, Modem-Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen, Hungary (2009).
His works can be found in important public and private collections in Romania, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Israel, France, Italy, Greece and the USA. He works and lives in Bucharest. Since 2005 he is represented by Anaid Art Gallery Bucharest/Berlin/Baden-Baden.
The exhibition can be visited by the general public until February 28, 2024, from Wednesday to Sunday between 09:00 and 17:00.
The exhibition project is organized by the Constanța Art Museum and supported by Anaid Art Gallery Bucharest/Berlin/Baden-Baden.
