Thursday, February 20, starting at 6 PM, Iomo Gallery inaugurates the personal exhibition of the sculptor Cătălin Bădărău, The carmine stain of definitive gestures, curated by Horațiu Lipot.
” […]Through the process-materiality of his works, Cătălin Bădărău brings forward fundamental oppositions, a direct confrontation of incongruous physical and formal attributes: hardness/softness, roughness/smoothness, precision/arbitrariness, molding/free form, “natural” surface/industrial
construction — falling and floating, gravity and transcendence, which all give the works an equally unstable, insistent material and metaphorical character.
Perhaps because sculpture is more than other artistic genres tributary to figuration, more material as surface, it is also perhaps easier to categorize quantitatively within a formal cultural history. Therefore, we can say that Cătălin Bădărău’s artistic production would place him in perhaps the most strongly manifested branch of the medium in our country after the 1970s – 1980s, the one neo-orthodox in the subject and neo-expressionistic in form. However, not in its direct approach, but intelligently treated, naturalistic and visceral in the first instance, just drag you into the core of a symbolized issues related to the transgression of the self and its place in the world.” (excerpt from the curatorial text)
Horatiu Lipot, curator
Cătălin Bădărău (b.1981) lives and works in Bucharest, where he graduated from the National University of Arts with a master’s degree in sculpture and a PhD in visual arts. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sculpture. His works evoke the vulnerability of human beings in different social contexts through objects made of unconventional materials such as silicone, sponge, glass, and metal. Many of his works depict people with physical and psychological, just to reveal current forms of violence with its multiple physical and psychological effects. His work has been indexed in the “100 Sculptors of Tomorrow”/ Courtesy of Kurt Beers (Beers London Gallery 2019).
The exhibition can be visited until March 22, 2025. Admission is free.
Address: Iomo Gallery (Combinatului Fondului Plastic, street Băiculești no. 29, Bucharest).
