The public from Timisoara is expected on Friday, July 14, 2023, at 6 p.m., to accompany the artist Ana Maria Szöllösi in the performance of the work “Full of Merit, Yet Poetical / Auto-Destructive Traces.”
The performance consists of a chalk ball that the artist will roll around the city until it disintegrates. The trace of the performance remains as a temporary work of art influenced by the context and conditions encountered along the way and served as a silent witness to how we interact with public spaces.

The route will start at the address of the workshop where the work was produced, Iulian Grozescu Street no. 16, then the artist will roll the ball on Peneș Curcanul Street no. 3-5, following the course of Bega towards the center.

Ana Maria Szöllösi: “The action we will perform in the public space by using a ball of chalk in an ordinary everyday route can bring a playful and unexpected element to the monotonous urban landscape. By creating temporary markings on sidewalks or other public surfaces, I will express observations or thoughts while reproducing the routes to or from the workshop, which often feed me with inspiration or reflection on my artistic practice. I am excited by the idea of ​​intervening in the public space in an original and ephemeral way; it will bring a new and exciting perspective on the urban environment, transforming it into a framework for expression and interaction with others.”

“Full of Merit, Yet Poetical / Auto-Destructive Traces” is probably the most eloquent proof that the Accelerator program managed to create a group of artists with common interests because it represents a direct collaboration between the artists Roberta Curcă, Lucia Ghegu, Stanca Soare and Ana Maria Szöllösi, through the significant contribution of Maria Mandea. Timișoara is the first city where the work performance will take place, and Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, and Pitești will follow it.

Ana Maria Szöllösi lives and works in Timisoara, where she graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Design in 2018 and studied with a scholarship at the Jan Matejko Academy of Arts in Krakow, Poland, and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. In her artistic practice, she mainly identifies with the language of painting and analog photography, often interested in the intersection between these two mediums.
Working predominantly with abstract painting, she uses this medium to transpose dreamlike or subconscious elements into the spatial plane. She uses symbols that represent clues about the ideas captured in the works. This way of articulating and conceptualizing spaces and symbols through painting works for her as an access path to a personal plane from which she observes the environment and self-defines a way of relating to it.

The six art projects in the public space are solidified in the concept “The Artist, the Work and Everyone Who Comes to It” created by Tevž Logar, the curator of the exhibition Back to Where It All Began, which took place at Gaep Gallery.
The project’s title is taken from a quote by the American artist Allan Kaprow, a key figure in establishing the concepts of performance and performative action in the 1950s and 1960s. His idea of ​​blurring the boundaries between art and life led to visually precise works that were conceptual, site-specific, and timed, apparently random but carefully choreographed activities that required the participation of the audience and the performers to complete the artwork.

The program of other works of art in public space:
Cluj-Napoca, September 11–17, Stanca Soare & Larisa Petcut, Joint Lines
Bucharest, September 5 (on-site), Maria Mandea, The Library for Public Games
Pitesti, September 7, Stanca Soare, Full of Merit, yet Poetical / Auto-destructive Traces
Oltenita, September 3, Alina Ion, Treads of Solitude
Cluj-Napoca, August 25, Lucia Ghegu, Full of Merit, yet Poetical / Self-destructive Traces
Bucharest, August 17, Andrei Arion and Delia A. Prodan, Lose a Step
Bucharest, August 5, Roberta Curcă, Full of Merit, yet Poetical / Auto-destructive Traces
Constanta, July 28–30, Lucia Ghegu, On the Same Line
Timisoara, July 14, Ana Maria Szöllösi, Full of Merit, yet Poetical / Auto-destructive Traces
Bucharest, June 25 (online), Maria Mandea, The Library for Public Games

Funded by SEE Grants 2014 – 2021 within the RO-CULTURE Program and implemented by the Eastwards Prospectus Cultural Association (ACEP), in partnership with Gaep Gallery from Bucharest and i8 Gallery from Reykjavik, Iceland, Accelerator is the first and most complex mentorship for emerging artists which offers young artists a strategic approach to their careers.