“Isychia. The Phantom Island”. Codruța Cernea’s first solo exhibition at Zina Gallery.

Codruța Cernea’s first solo exhibition at Zina Gallery, entitled “Isychia. The Phantom Island”, reunites the artist’s new series of acrylic and watercolour paintings.

The opening will take place on Saturday, June 15th, between 6 and 9 PM at the gallery’s venue- Axente Sever 14A, Cluj-Napoca.

“Isychia represents a continuous search – an ongoing journey to an unknown destination. In the process of piecing the series together, Codruța Cernea shifts through profoundly personal life inquiries – from the ambivalence related to the supreme biological impulse of “femininity actualization” (motherhood), to the prefiguration of a spiritual connection felt equally on an interpersonal level and in relation to a rapidly changing environment. Drawing from diverse research and inspiration sources: images of the cosmos, botanical elements, vegetal and anatomical structures, while keeping in touch with future aspects of human existence – interstellar travel, genetic engineering, cloning, artificial organ harvesting – Isychia becomes an expression of silent reconciliation with a reality whose potential future hostility is neutralized through a serene sense of hope.” (excerpt from the text written by Tea Vindt)

Codruța Cernea (b. 1979, Târgu-Mureș) uses painting as the ideal medium to exercise possibilities and to reveal hidden aspects of her own existence. Her works have a profound meditative atmosphere and often capture private moments, reflecting the underlying feeling of solitude increasingly present in the contemporary human experience.
The observer’s viewpoint, nostalgic scenarios about the future, the individual experience as a subtle mirror of collective transformations, the landscape, human nature with its contradictory emotional needs are some of the themes explored by the artist in her distinct and ever-changing pictorial universe.
Codruta’s practice is motivated by contemporary questions about the cultural development of concepts such as scenic nature, environmental and bio-engineering policy, democracy, carbon capitalism and the meaning of happiness.

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