Until Wednesday, October 5, at Știrbei47, the solo exhibition of the artist Teodora Vasilescu, called Deghizări (Disguises), takes place. Through the works exhibited within it, the viewer is offered a discourse on vulnerability, which Teodora illustrates through self-exploration. Even if the theme is in itself a subject of inner fragility, the artist chooses to approach it in a vibrant and assumed manner, the intense chromaticity and varied materiality metamorphosing into a visual game through which Teodora detaches herself from the insecurity of vulnerability.
Although Teodora Vasilescu is a graduate of the metal section from National University of Arts of Bucharest, currently working as a jeweler and visual artist, the Disguises exhibition includes collages through whose meticulously arranged layers the artist renders characters in contorted positions, with piercing facial figures. The exhibition space becomes a framework for the artist’s introspection, but also for the characters in the works, who are captured in a game of looks.
The eight works through which Teodora was able to reproduce her inner colors are arranged circularly within the space at Știrbei47. Through the Soldiers series (Soldier, Soldier 3, Soldier 4), the artist creates characters with a dual appearance, the three collages representing the first works through which she began to explore the theme of vulnerability. In the same way as the soldier series was created the Anatomy of an Anonymous, through the color and the unnatural figure of the character being particularized a certain grip. Through Splin, it renders a composition marked by loneliness, whose texturality is highlighted by textile inserts. The Velvet King is probably the work that stands out the most in the exhibition. Having considerable dimensions, as well as a masculine name, the character incorporates elements and a specifically feminine delicacy, the sensibility of the work being, therefore, a dual one. Mimosa proposes the rendering of the refinement of the very term that bears its name, and Vegetariana, which bears the name of the book written by Han Kang, represents an interpretation of the artist’s own image, created through floral elements.
The eight works can be viewed from several perspectives, combining sense, due to their materiality, with introspection. Vulnerability, the subject around which they are built, thus becomes something palpable, which can be visually explored by the viewer.
With the occasion of the White Night of the Galleries, the exhibition extends its visiting schedule, on September 30 being accessible to the public between 6 and 10 p.m. It can also be visited between October 3 and 5, between 6 and 8 p.m.
The project is carried out by Laborator Artistic (the Artistic Laboratory), in collaboration with the artist Teodora Vasilescu.
