Thursday, October 13, is taking place the opening of a double exhibition event, dedicated to the art of two artists: Daniela Pălimariu from Romania, and Kateryna Lysovenko from Ukraine.
The exhibition that will include Daniela’s artworks is called All the Rumors are True and will aim to illustrate her vision of the sheltering instinct, and Kateryna’s is called Something for Everyone and presents the disastrous effects that can be caused by political changes, given the actual Russian- Ukrainian context. The dual event captures the creative consciousness of the two artists, representing for the public a transition from exploring the contingency between fragility and hardness to relating man to history and politics.
The creative mediums in which the two choose to express themselves are varied and different, given the fact that there is no connection or continuity between the subjects they approach in the pieces they create. Daniela turns her attention to ceramics and industrial materials such as stainless steel, while Kateryna chooses painting to express her ideas in visual form, the most recent of her works being aimed at illustrating the current situation in Ukraine.
Daniela Pălimariu is a visual artist and co-founder of the Sandwich Gallery in Bucharest, for which she has also been a co-curator, since 2016. She chooses to express herself in a variety of mediums, her works taking the form of installations, public events, and in the case of the exhibition All the Rumors are True, of the valent forms of stainless steel, which was turned into monumental structures. The pieces, whose presence seems ambiguous, are finished like mirrors and give the impression of “mirages”. The opposition between fragility and hardness is rendered by Pălimariu through the incorporation of ceramics and porcelain within the massive steel figures below.
Kateryna Lysovenko, the artist of Ukrainian origin who is present at the exhibition event, wants to illustrate the relationship between ideology and painting, her works being a point of affirmation of the victims, both at the level of politics and art. These follow the representation of the concept starting from antiquity to present times, but given the current situation between Russia and Ukraine, the subject becomes even more fuel. Lysovenko chooses monumental painting, drawing, and at the same time text, as a way of visual expression.
The two exhibitions presented by Catinca Tăbăcaru Gallery are part of the DoiJoi, and with its occasion, on Thursday, September 13, the opening will take place between 6-10 p.m. Visitors are invited to explore the creations of the two artists until December 3, from Thursday to Saturday, between 2-7 pm.
The exhibition is part of The Real Deal project, a project co-financed by Bucharest City Hall through ARCUB within the Affective Bucharest Program 2022. For detailed information about the Bucharest City Hall funding program through ARCUB, you can access www.arcub.ro @arcub.bucuresti.




Cover photo credits: Cătălin Georgescu