December brings a new exhibition at the Galeria Romană: ” Orice drum este un ocol/ Any road is a detour,” signed Constantin FLONDOR.

The opening will take place on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, at 7 p.m., with the artist’s participation, and in the beginning will speak Prof. Cristian Robert Velescu, Ph.D.

“The generic under which the exhibition at the Roman Gallery is to be placed is due to the artist himself. Just as Constantin Flondor’s work is presented to us like a whole marked by complexity and depth, the assertion that “every road is a detour” reveals its complexity and depth. It does it with its very enigmatic character. The artist’s saying urges meditation and also to decipher, be it one full of timidity or perhaps, on the contrary, a bold one.

Engaging on the path of deciphering, the analysts of Constantin Flondor’s work, older and newer but also dedicated onlookers of his paintings, will be able to formulate only simple hypotheses regarding this generic message, generous in its substance but ambiguous. Only one thing is sure; the artist makes the viewer of his work a partaker of the reality we designate – not finding more appropriate words – through the phrase “mystery of creation.”

It is worth considering the mysterious sharing of the powers of creation, even if only a tiny one. Nor could it be otherwise since the creative attribute is unique to God. It was given to the artist to share from it, not directly, but “through participation,” and to the viewers of his work through second-order participation.

Committed to the path of creation, Constantin Flondor “pulls after himself,” the contemplator of the images he has created. And it does not matter if this “road companion” relates to the geometric-Pythagorean phase of creation or the creative manifestations impregnated by the maximum pictoriality, those specific to the “Prologue phase.”

The assertion that “every road is a detour” induces – if only in appearance – the idea of doubt, of turmoil, followed by a moment of clarifying decision. When the artist deviates from the road “in a straight line,” so from the short one, meant to lead directly to the target of the artistic victory, it is to be suspected that the “redirection” succeeds a hesitation moment. Here is just one of the possible interpretations of the artist’s assertion, under which the current exhibition at the Roman Gallery is placed generically.

The analyst of the image of the exhibition visitor can only suspect that the mentioned hesitation is stylistic. Such a nature is recognized in the two “poles” that govern the creation of Constantin Flondor, the geometric-Pythagorean and the only apparently opposing one, which allows itself to be recognized in the pulsatile pictorial matter, related to that of the living tissue.

Whatever his stylistic path, the artist makes us partakers of the same essential reality, which is confused with the sense/meaning planted in the depths of things. This even becomes the central theme of Flondor’s creation. That is why the “detoured road” can also take the form of shuttling between the mentioned poles.

It is not impossible to admit that the images present in the exhibition hosted by Galeria Romană indicate the moment when the pendulum, tired of oscillating between the geometric and the organic structures, and some and others loaded with the existential overflow, stopping even if only virtually from its monotonous movement, reveals to us the ineffable overlap of the mentioned plastic structures and, of course, of the conceptual ones, by this even signaling the admirable organicity of Constantine Flondor’s creation.

In other words, the works of the beginnings of creative maturity, but also the recent ones “of the last hour,” see the same concern, each taking the form of “variations” on the subject of high and ineffable reality, indefinite, to which theologians, the scholars, but also the most gifted artists – poets, musicians, choreographers, and plastic artists – have agreed and accepted to call it a being.

Stripped of any decorative character, the works of Constantin Flondor are determined to utter – according to the example of the psalmist – the human being: “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the making of His hands proclaims its strength.” (Cristian-Robert Velescu)

The exhibition is open from December 6, 2022, to January 4, 2023.

Monday-Friday: 10 a.m. –6 p.m., Saturday: 10 a.m.– 3 p.m.

Parteners: Catena pentru artă, Evenimentul Zilei, Senso Tv, Jurnalul Bucureştiului “Le Petit Parisien”, Intell News, Modernism, Agenția pentru carte, Ultima Oră, Curatorial.ro, Empower Artists Magazine, TVR 1, Propagarta.