GOLD
The anniversary exhibition GOLD was organized to commemorate two years since the opening of the cultural space Gallery, as well as to celebrate two years of activity of the National Association for Contemporary Visual Arts. The event took in the cultural space on Leonida Street, No. 9-11 at 7:00 PM.
GOLD naturally follows the two major events: RED, at the beginning of the activity and ULTRAMARINE, one year into the activity. It is a collective exhibition of photography, painting, graphics, and sculpture, bringing together national and international artists in a unique event dedicated exclusively to contemporary visual arts.
The visual artists participating in the GOLD exhibition are: Ștefan Neacșu, Vasile Pop Negreșteanu, Cuzina, Bogdan Severin Hojbota, Vasile Tolan, Dalina Bădescu, Aurel Tar, Rareș Lupu, Teli Iacșa, Lucian Muntean, Dorothea Fleiss, Marius Burhan, Maxim Dumitraș, Emilia Persu, George Mihai Vasilescu, Ionuț Barbu, Mirela Trăistaru, Monica Morariu, Maurice Boulogne.
Photographers featured in the GOLD exhibition are: Cristian Crisbășan, Vlad Eftenie, Dragoș Cristescu, Cornel Lazia, Alexandra Crisbășan, Pierre Crie (France), Andreea Tanase, Maria Butnaru, Andrei Păcuraru, Dana Dociu, Georges Medawar, Irina Bejenaru, Sorin Bejenaru.
During the projection: Sorin Suruceanu, Felix Stancu, Corneliu Sarion, Mariana Cotoi, Gabriel Kovats, Marius Petrescu, Dragos Dumitrescu, Timis Raul, Florina Luput, Theo Stanciu, Lucia Simion (digital graphics and photography), Delia Herman, Carla Coanda, Alina Usurelu, Cristina Tutuianu, Dan G. Cojocariu, Alma Ghiulea, Eli Driu, Gabriel Lucian Popescu, Vlad Iosif, Adrian Coleasa, Cosmin Somesan, Adrian Radaschin, Claudiu Popa, Oprescu Cristian, Costel Bogde, Anca Coleasa.
Gold, the color associated with perfection, power, and fulfillment, is the central theme of the artistic endeavor of those who will exhibit in the GOLD exhibition.
““It is becoming increasingly clear to me that the very purpose of visual art, paintings, sculptures and photography, is to leave them behind, not as useless things, but as essential centers of life, as residues of a champion of life who, on their own, matter: they alone measure life itself and the prestige of a final balance. The painting, sculpture or artistic photograph is a trace of the hygiene of forgetting. You leave traces: nausea, children, dramas, memories, weariness, trees, books, installations, sculptures, photographs, paintings. But when making the art artifact, the purpose and content of life is just as futile as taking any of the achievements of any champion as a goal. Any gold medal. When you don’t perceive your visual creations as residues of a rich lunch of existence, when you idolize them (and idolize yourself within them), they subtly become valuable paintings, golden era photographs, visual installations with a golden heart, decorative sculptures, a career in installation or mere artifacts of toil, graves of an inert industriousness in which souls bury themselves in a guilty self-forgetfulness when you thirst for gold. The artist is nothing but the hypertrophy of a trace, the illegitimate dilation of a champion. Living to create art is equivalent to living hallucinated by your own weight in gold. It is fatal to cast a yellowish shadow when standing in the sun. But decisively, essentially, obligatorily, it is the fact of standing in the sun, of moving freed from one’s own value, satiated with gold as a mosquito is satiated with blood. Our exhibition aims to find champions beyond gold. Champions among artists, but especially champions among viewers. Come and take GOLD to rid yourself of GOLD. The gold medal.””
