The personal exhibition “Closeness and Distance from Nature/ Apropiere și îndepărtare de natură“, signed by the artist Ioan Iacob is on display at AnnArt Gallery .
The opening of the exhibition took place in the presence of the artist Ioan Iacob, the curator Ruxandra Demetrescu and the coordinator of this project, Raluca Băloiu.
“Ioan Iacob presents to the public in his new exhibition Closeness and Distance from Nature/ Apropiere și îndepărtare de natură, organized by the AnnArt Gallery, a series of oil paintings made this year, individualized by a particular interest in nature. The artist who stated five years ago in an interview that “the abstract and the figurative intersect even today, mutely, in my painting” looks at nature in a visual exercise that revisits the landscape as a traditional genre, trying to understand the mystery or the “spirit” hidden behind its particular forms. The sources of inspiration are diverse, bringing together various “views” preserved and amalgamated in the painter’s memory, such as landscapes from Transylvania, from the Danube, from the banks of the Rhine after a flood, from Andalusia or from a pond in Bărăgan.
Comparing the paintings strikes, on the other hand, the effectiveness of the dialogue of distinct points of view cultivated by the painter: the distant view (Fernsicht) and the close view (Nahsicht), which meet in an ecological message, in which I read a cry of alarm, expressed by the artist with his specific means, more precisely through the expressive force of color. Let’s not forget that Ioan Iacob is a great colorist, considering that “every color has its own life”. An extraordinary life manifested through an indescribable light.” Ruxandra Demetrescu
The exhibition can be visited until November 12, 2024. Admission is free.
