Tuesday, February 28, between 6-8 p.m., AnnArt Gallery presents the group exhibition “Treasury of forgotten places”, curated by Ioana Olăhuț.
The exhibiting artists are: Anca Bodea, Arthur Hengeli, Călin Dumitrașcu, Ioana Olăhuț, Robert Andacs and Taisia Corbuț.
“A creative camp. I’ve often asked myself, what does a creative camp mean, for me and my colleagues? How else do we relate to plein-air and the intention to capture things in the right light, to the easel, the canvases, and the greasy brushes carried through the valleys and over the hills?
When you go to a creative camp you leave your assignments, sketches, and ways of doing things in the workshop, you abandon the predictable and efficient comfort of planned, staged work.
You embark on a journey of apprehension and appropriation of new territory, you go through the natural spaces, the architectural structures, the local people and the customs of relationships, the created, arranged, forgotten objects with the alert gaze of a hunting dog… Armed only with personal filters through which you perceive reality and with the reading grid you apply to the world, a fishing net with very small meshes, which extracts a dram of meaning from what surrounds you.
You carefully scan the contours of things in the hope that you will find something that will hold you back, excite you, intrigue you, as in an unpredictable and unplanned treasure hunt. Enough so that you make room for it in your panoply of topics and assignments, give it a few hours/days/weeks of attention, and start lugging around makeshift easels and uncertain bottles of solvents.
We embarked on such an adventure last summer, at the invitation of our colleague Dorin Negrau, who generously hosted us in the living museum of the Simple Life Connection Center. Intending to say something about the things carefully put together in the last century, recovered and lovingly staged in the last decade, and about us and our art; about the area of temporary overlap of these two worlds, as in a well-tempered logical inference.”
Ioana Olăhuț, curator
Project: Dorin Negrau
Entry is free.
