”Schimbul patru” is the latest personal exhibition of Emanuel Borcescu, with which Scemtovici & Benowitz Gallery makes a strong debut in 2024.
The opening will occur on Friday, January 19, at 6:30 p.m., in the gallery space on Jean-Louis Calderon Street no. 34 in Bucharest, where the exhibition curated by Raluca-Ilaria Demetrescu will remain open until February 23.

The exhibition tells about the artist’s preoccupation with the rusty twilight spaces of the defunct Romanian industry, presenting creations from the period 2017-2023, in particular, oil painting, charcoal drawing, a mural intervention – a drawing in situ, as well as a photo archive made over ten years.
“I’m interested in subversive ways of conveying messages, in mutating the meaning of iconic images, mixing and remixing forms and symbols in search of new perspectives.” – Emanuel Borcescu.
”Schimbul patru” includes two works: interior landscapes, portraits of disintegrating industrial equipment and several larger canvases that appear at the limit of abstract form, fictional writings, and sign letters whose form originates from post-industrial landscapes. The artist uses a restrained chromaticism consisting of colored grays to emphasize the state of abandonment, loss and nostalgia.

Emanuel Borcescu (born 1980, Râmnicu Sărat) lives and works in Bucharest. He is a graduate of UNARTE Bucharest, Graphics department.
Selection of personal exhibitions: 2015 – Garden Miners, Lateral Artspace, Cluj and University Square, Bucharest; 2014 – Schlafwagen, Magheru One, 2011 – “Docmarcell’s Journal of Immunology, Alert Studio; 2010 – “Fresca of the Romanian Capitalist Worker”, Free Press Square; 2005 – “Heroes”, H’Art Gallery; 2002 – “Salvinia”, Workshop 35.
Selection of group exhibitions: 2023 – MOBU Art Fair – Alert Studio stand; 2022 – “Bombs and people”, Cellula de art, Carol 53; 2021 – “Sports Club of the Arts”, MARE; 2018 – MNAC Collection – Seeing history, National Museum of Contemporary Art; 2015 – “Supercontemporary Art” – Cesianu Palace, Artmark; 2010 – Biennial of young artists, organized by the 2Meta foundation, Știrbei Palace, Bucharest; 2008 – “Visions in the Nunnery”, London; 2007 – “Traces: Romanian Contemporary Art”, a traveling exhibition at Contemporary Art Center, Pont Aven, France / Robert Else gallery, California, Selby gallery, Florida; 2006 – “Export” Goldener Kalb gallery, Aarau, Switzerland; 2004 – The residency exhibition at the Borsos Museum, Gyor, Hungary; 2003 – “Preview”, MNAC.