The female artist Marina Aristotel presents a new series of works in the personal exhibition “Let’s run back to a zero point. Look inside”, curated by Irina Ungureanu. The opening of the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 22, at Vitrina by Celula de Arta, starting at 7 p.m., in the presence of the artist.
“What if someone took you by the hand and convinced you to, for a few moments, let yourself be carried away in a mysterious and fascinating time machine? But what if this machine were one of inner time, and the hand that would guide you would make you look through a pair of new eyes, full of colors, iridescences and transparencies, as you did not (before) know it exists?“
With such unusual lenses, Marina Aristotel awaits her audience on Saturday, October 22, at the Vitrina by Celula de Artă, at 7 p.m., in an exhibition that proposes an exercise to reset the way we use our eyes to look, discern and understand.
A series of irises floating transparently in space, apparently crossed by air, in fluid and changing colors: this is what the seductive “lenses” look like that the artist puts at the disposal of every viewer, as inner oceans. The exhibition of Marina Aristotel invites us in a journey that is not one “across seas and lands” – unless the “seas and lands” take the relief forms of our inner states. It’s about states and inner worlds in this immersion among the resin irises of Marina Aristotel.” (Irina Ungureanu, curator)
“With this exhibition, the artist returns to the material that consecrated her from a visual point of view – the resin – after a period of technical experiments, which went from painting to the permanent search to get out of the “frame of the painting” through explosive volumetry, cutting, assemblage or collage.
In the new series, the artist seems determined to go one step further: that of transfiguring matter, which becomes vaporous, fluid, and transparent, like a barely perceptible membrane. The globes of light and color are nothing but “irises upside down”, says the artist. And in the sense of looking lies the key to this adventure – one that can only be deciphered as the eye gets used to… the unusual route of self-exploration.” (Irina Ungureanu, curator)
Marina Aristotel was born in 1985 in Bucharest, where she lives and works. She studied painting at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in 2015 and her master’s degree in 2017. As an artist, Marina chose resin as her favorite working material, which has become, moreover, her predominant visual mark, although, if she were to characterize herself, the artist would say that continuous experimentation with materials, with their transparency and fluidity, sometimes using the technique of assembly and three-dimensional layering, is what defines her best. She has participated in group exhibitions, including, in Bucharest, Foreseeing the Present, Estopia Gallery, 2020; Death, Laborna Gallery, Diploma, Ştirbei Palace; Workshop 19&34, Visual Arts Center; Spatial Activity Studio 9, workshop held by Prof. Slawomir Brzsoska and Rafal Gorczynski, University of Poznan, UNA Galeria, in 2017; An Abstract Feeling, Galeria 418, Bucharest, 2016. The Estopia Gallery presented two solo exhibitions of the Marina Aristotel, Aasamblaj, in 2019, in Bucharest, and Colour Splinters, in Lugano, in 2020.
