The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) opens the Winter-Spring Exhibition Season with six new exhibitions on Thursday, December 8, at 7 p.m.
DANI GHERCA. CONTINUOUS FLOW – DISCONTINUOUS IMAGES
Curator: Sam Steverlynck
Sound design: Michele Bressan
Dani Ghercă (b. 1988, Bucharest) uses photography to examine the notion of urbanity, scale, and disconnection. His photographic approach aims to convey to the viewer a sense of confusion, amazement, and claustrophobia. For his latest body of work, entitled A Glimpse of Disconnection (started in 2021), Ghercă creates aerial views of various metropolises around the world, bathed in darkness, with occasional patches of light and color – a reflection on the edge of life in the age of data juxtaposed to the feeling of alienation that paradoxically characterizes it. By disclosing these data streams, Ghercă reveals what exists, but is not always visible to the eye. – Sam Steverlynck
DORINA HORĂTĂU. LANDSCAPE RECONSTRUCTION
Curator: Călin Dan
With the support of the curating team: Sandra Demetrescu, Alexandru Oberländer-Târnoveanu
Production: Ionut Emilian Petcu, Teodor Horătău, Gheorghe Olteanu, Răzvan Mihalachi, Mihai Toma, Ionut Marin
The form and the forest content of a perimeter in the forest in front of the MNAC are brought in an abstract form in the interior space of the building, in the Marble Hall. Each trunk/container built from the inside contains the leaves collected from under the “corresponding” tree, located in the natural environment outside. The proposal of this site-specific installation relies on a sensory experience based on the strong contradiction between the delimited space and its content, to create an active, objective reality in which the artistic intervention creates a place of introspection, questioning, and reflection. -Dorina Horătău
STEFAN CÂLȚIA. NOTES FROM A LIVING TIME
Curators: Cătălin Davidescu, Alexandra Manole
Exhibition design: Attila KIM Architects
MNAC coordinators: Nicoleta Coman, Mălina Ionescu
The exhibition is part of systematic research of lesser-known pictorial and graphic works from the creative process of Ștefan Câltia. The curatorial approach at the National Museum of Contemporary Art proposes narrative structures inspired by visual discourse with an epic dominance and focuses, in particular, on works made between 1965 and 1995.
A retrospective look at this interval highlights both conceptual and aesthetic constancy: going through the work, we notice a plurality of attitudes, rendered in compositions with zoomorphic or monsters imagined in dark landscapes, but also landscapes, static natures, travelers that facilitate an understanding of the world and finding balance in a disturbing cultural, political, social and economic space.
Thus, we move away from a comfortable reading and propose the rediscovery of Ștefan Câltia as a penetrating commentator, sometimes with verve, at other times extremely subtle, of the daily life in which he forms his work.
The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Ștefan Câlția Foundation.
ANA MARIA MICU. LEFT HAND TOWARDS DISTANT VIEW
Curator: Simona Vilau
An existential crossroads, a relocation, and a new life re-constructed seven years ago, define the exhibition signed by Ana Maria Micu, Left hand towards a distant view. In the museum space, where she works in situ, we discover a whole universe, built step by step, with a lot of discipline, by the hands of an attentive and brave artist, according to a list of needs very well identified by herself.
The working process has as a subsidiary introspection and analysis and aims at the creation of a seemingly impenetrable habitat, like a protective womb, rounded in successions of layers of memory and translucent images, from which grow the roots of a new world and an oeuvre organism, in full expansion. ― Simona Vilău, Life from Zero to Far
CHARIF BENHELIMA. MORNING LIGHT
Curator: Sandra Demetrescu
Charif Benhelima’s photographic work focuses primarily on the search for identity and the sense of rootlessness that gradually became the engine of his artistic endeavor. Although deeply autobiographical, Benhelima’s work goes beyond questions of a personal nature. On the contrary, it is formed by and forms a socio-political discourse of a universal nature, addressing topics such as memory/forgetting, time, space, origin, politics of representation, truth, and perception. The exhibition at MNAC is a condensed presentation of his experiments with Polaroid photography, which he has been developing for over twenty years.
The exhibition was organized in partnership with SwitchLab and co-financed by AFCN.
INTIMACY
Artists: Georgiana Cojocaru, Adela Holdon, Iulia Jugaru, Petra Martin, Ruxandra
Nițescu, Diana Oana, Gabri Roșca
Curator: Alexandra Moț
Program coordinator: Dana Pârvulescu
Starting at 8 p.m., a JAZZ CONCERT with Iordache (saxophone, flute) and Sorin Romanescu (guitar) will take place in the museum cafe
Access to the building is until 10 p.m. inclusive, and inside the event lasts until 11 p.m. Entry is free.
Source and credit cover: manc.ro
