Elite Art Gallery is the host of the exhibition IN PLA(i)N SIGHT, whose protagonists are Emőke Fábián and Ada Jugănaru, two of the four winners of the #FRESH competition, the 7th edition.
“If the aerial perspective was to know immense popularity during the Renaissance, when painters depicted the influence of the atmosphere on vast landscapes, Emőke Fábián and Ada Jugănaru transform aerial and light into an independent language. Visually purifying the human element, the two artists induce the idea of detachment from the ground, the gaze being placed in a separate universe. The two artists plastically embrace a physical flight, but also a spiritual one, the telluric plane being replaced by a space of contemplation, of wonder, but also of oblivion”, said Ioana Mirică, curator of Elite Art Gallery.
Looking at the world from above
Emőke Fábián impressed the #FRESH jury with “Maps in Landscape” project, featuring oil paintings and works on paper. “The landscape is the main source of inspiration for me. I am always attentive to the landscape that surrounds me and I study it. In my oil paintings I like to use the knowledge I gather from the summer plein air session, where I study the atmospheric and spatial quality of color and try to enrich my color palette, which I then configure in the studio into personal compositions, ” said Emőke Fábián.
The game of… lights and shadows
As for Ada Jugănaru, she surprised the #FRESH jury with an original vision of light. The artist experienced its double nature in the workshop. “In this process, I translated the duality corpuscle-wave into material-immaterial terms, the interaction of light with matter being the one interrogated. So, not from the position of the one who measures nature, but from the perspective of the one who lets himself be inspired by it, I asked myself: if light is not matter, why does it interact on a sensitive level with matter? More precisely, why is there a shadow?”, said Ada Jugănaru.
The exhibition IN PLA(i)N SIGHT can be visited untill February 2, Monday to Friday, at the Elite Art Gallery (Piața Națiunile Unite, no. 3-5) between 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
