The “As in Ninth Heaven/ Ca-n al nouălea cer” exhibition, curated by Mihai Toth, presents Adrian Florin Pop’s latest series of works.
The new series of paintings, exhibited at Banatul Montan Reșita Museum, “highlights Florin’s relationship, sometimes ironic, which he develops about the act of representing the painted image, taking into account his position towards the viewer within the visual experience he takes part in the actual meeting with the proposed exhibition scenario.
The initial impulse behind these works questions the artist’s psychological and emotional state in the studio and the effect that society has on him in his everyday life. This melange of his perception regarding the exterior and the interior is used as a bridge between the two situations, the workshop as a place of personal introspection and a point of analysis of the social conglomerate of which it is a part.
Adrian Florin Pop’s pictorial speech invites the viewer to take part in a certain type of aesthetic journey that can take him along his interest in the history of painting, integrating in his compositions both plastic gestures connected to different artistic currents from the modernist period, as well as figurative elements connected to Renaissance iconography used as a pretext in the artist’s perception and framed in the form of working tools through which the image reaches the pose in which it paints itself.
On this note, Adrian Florin Pop’s approach to painting in this series can be described as an existential sign by which he questions his own principles related to how he feels and looks both in the studio and outside it.
The ensemble of paintings is completed by a textual intervention written by Florin’s guest, Augustin Cupsa. Through this text built in relation to the proposed paintings and the dialogue he had with Florin, Augustin Cupsa brings out through a gesture with a humorous implication multiple poses of the way of interpreting the works, signaling subtly the condition of the artist influenced by the perspectives of the culture in which is located. At the same time, “Ca-n al noulea cer” is an exhibition supported by a performative mediation program, which includes Bianca-Andreea Varga, Mihail Riglea and Tudor Mutrescu, with the role of emphasizing the immersive effect of the works in relation to the visitors eager to deepen the artistic and curatorial intent presented.” (fragment from the curatorial text)
Mihai Toth, curator
Adrian Florin Pop lives and works in Timisoara. He studied painting at the Faculty of Arts and Design in Timișoara. Through his practice, he has participated in various personal and group exhibition projects both locally and nationally. His speech focuses mostly on the theme of painting and explores different nuances of approach to this medium.
