Scemtovici & Benowitz Gallery invites the public to visit the exhibition AD INFINITUM, signed by visual artist Andrea Nagy. The exhibition, curated by Mădălina Mirea, brings together works of drawing, painting, and video.
“Descriptions of real or fantastical animals, medieval bestiaries gathered entire collections of symbolic images and fables within their pages. Drawing from this source of inspiration, Andrea Nagy retraces the path in reverse, in a complex endeavor of introspection and self-discovery. Complex compositions, in charcoal or vibrant colors, where the figurative and abstract constantly compete, her drawings coalesce through layers and smudges, with palimpsest-like reflections. The state of wakefulness, in which the artist dives into the creative process, generates dream memories or, as the case may be, weaves delicate threads from the real universe of her childhood, filled with legends, stories, and phantasms.
In the endless landscapes signed by Andrea Nagy, time and space are abrogated, just as our dreams and subconscious are nonlinear. The modes of expression are multiple, never the same, in an unrelenting thirst for movement and change. The characters are projected into a vast context, in a universe of unlimited existence, full of mystery and unpredictability, revealed gradually, slowly. For beyond the inevitable agitation in which we are trapped, AD INFINITUM is a plea for slowing down our external rhythm and connecting to the inner rhythm of an artist who has seen ideas.” – Mădălina Mirea, curator.
Andrea Nagy (b. 1988, Târgu-Mureș) is a visual artist and university lecturer with a Ph.D. at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. She holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree (2013) in Painting and a Ph.D. in Visual Arts (2017) from the same university. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Union of Visual Artists of Romania, Painting branch. She had her first solo exhibition “Bestiar” at the Balassi Institute (2015) and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in the country and abroad, including Contemporary Drawing in Romania (Bucharest, 2023), the International Art Biennale (Beijing, 2015), the International Drawing Biennale (Mogoșoaia, 2017), and others. Besides her personal artistic activity, she has curated the three editions of the Confluences exhibitions, dedicated to young artists.
Mădălina Mirea (b. 1974, Constanța) is a curator and art historian. She graduated from the Faculty of Art History and Theory at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, where she also obtained her Ph.D. in Visual Arts (2011). Between 2014 and 2021, she coordinated the Exhibitions and Documentation Service at Centrul de Cultură „Palatele Brâncovenești de la Porțile Bucureștiului”. As a curator, she has contributed to many national and international projects and exhibitions. She is a member of the Union of Visual Artists of Romania, Criticism branch.
The exhibition is open until June 16, 2024, on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM and Sundays from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Free entrance.
