vineri, 5 iulie 2013

Portraits – UK and Romanian artists








Portraits – UK and Romanian artists

Portraits
Corke Art Gallery, Liverpool
Private View Thursday 4th July 2013 between 6pm – 8pm
The exhibition is open until July 20, 2013
Portraits features artists from UK and abroad.
They include Peter Edwards who was the winner of the 1994 BP Portrait Award and whose work hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London and the the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York among others. His portrait of Willy Russel is owned by National Museums Liverpool and his work can also be seen in the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead as well as National Museum Wales and Ulster Museum, Belfast.
The exhibition also features the work of four Romanian artists – Radu Belcin, Flavia Pitis, Aurel Tar and Francisc Chiuariu – whose work is influenced bu the way Romania’s history, cultural experience and current economic power or lack of it affect their lives.
The work selected for the show is a snapshot of this new reality and its effects on people and society in Romania.
Lack of freedom and identity issues are brought to the fore bu Belcin’s realist paintings, while childhood in the consumer society is the focus of the Chiuariu’s series titled Forever Ikea. Pitis works with the close-up childish gestures combined with the habits of adults, and Tar’s pop art style captures the strong hold that USSR held over its empire states.
entire article in the Liverpool Echo
Corke Art Gallery
296-298 Aigburth Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, L17 9PW
Opening Hours during Exhibitions:
Thu – Sun from 2pm – 5.30pm
(Viewings also available by appointment – please call 07773 287827 or the gallery during opening hours on 0151 726 0232)

duminică, 13 ianuarie 2013

End of Empires, Romanian contemporary artists in Liverpool January 2013











End of Empires, Romanian contemporary artists in Liverpool
January 2013
End of Empires, featuring original paintings by Romanian contemporary artists:
Radu Belcin, Flavia Pitiș, Aurel Tar, Francisc Chiuariu, Dragoș Burlacu

Sat 2 – Sat 23 February 2013
Opening hours during exhibitions:  Thu – Sun from 2pm – 5.30pm
(Viewings also available by appointment – please call 07773 287827 or the gallery during opening hours on 0151 726 0232)

Corke Art Gallery
296-298 Aigburth Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, L17 9PW, UK

Cycle of cultures
Apart from revival and reformation, the cycle of cultures is inevitably destined to decline.
There is always a spectacular beauty/horror in the decadence of civilizations who believe themselves to be right or supreme with their future apparently guaranteed.
How the mighty have fallen – each and every time – no empire has survived – each and every one is destined to collapse spectacularly – the next collapse is already in progress.
European scepticism is the edge which drives the present reality in Eastern Europe and inspires the contemporary artists: Radu Belcin, Flavia Pitiș, Aurel Tar, Francisc Chiuariu, Dragoș Burlacu.
Each nation is reacting to the new paradigm and provoking the future of the Europe in its own very particular way based upon its nations history, cultural experiences and its current economic power or lack of it.
Facing the ”empires” of Communism and Post Communism, Consumerism and Post Consumerism, Capitalism, Democracy and other Posts, art finds itself in between the freedom of knowledge and the market value, the demands of the Nouveau Riche and the challenges and scepticism of the New Poor.
The work selected for ‘End of Empires’ are snapshots of this new reality and its effects on people and societies.
Lack of freedom and identity issues are brought to the fore by Radu Belcin’s recent paintings.The childhood in the consumer society is the focus of the Francisc Chiuariu’s new series titled ”Forever Ikea”. Realist and sensitive, Flavia Pitiș works with close-up childish gestures and habits of the adults. Collective character is ”mirroring” the mass production in Dragoș Burlacu’s new oil paintings on steel metal. Aurel Tar’s ”Wonderful Collapse” allegorical multiple panels paintings evoke the great civilization of the Greek European antiquity, staged now under the bailout of the financial crises.

The artworks and the artists from the ”End of Empires” exhibition are examples for the rising of the emerging art markets from the Eastern Europe.
The exhibition was realized in cooperation with Năsui Private Collection & Gallery.
Contacts


For UK:
Nic Corke
Gallerist
Tel: (+44) 0151 726 0232
Cell phone: (+44) 07773 287827
nic@corke.net
www.corke.net

For Romania:
Cosmin Nasui                                                       
Artist representative // Art investment consultant // Curator                     
Tel: (+40) 0371 185 729
Cell phone: (+40) 0723 358 945
cosmin@cosminnasui.com                  
www.cosminnasui.com


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Nasui private collection&gallery is a cultural operator presenting the most important premium creations of a carefully selected pool of Romanian contemporary artists, within favourable international and national contexts. It aims to circulate its artists and art works on national and international art markets and scenes and to contribute to the sustainable growth of the represented artists’ market values. Portfolio of artists: Radu Belcin, Dragoș Burlacu, Francisc Chiuariu, Felix Deac, Flavia Pitiș, Bogdan Rața. Invited artists: Cristian Todie, Lucian Muntean.

Strategic partners: Modernism.ro, Radio Romania International (RRI), Best Communication Media – Clockwise Translations, Illy Romania

Nasui Private Collection & Gallery
Premium art works. Private vernissages. Investments in art
Preview space: 70 Emil Racovita str, vila 81A2, Ilfov, Bucharest, Romania

vineri, 19 octombrie 2012

THE ESSENCES OF REALITY



“The Essences of Reality, Hungarian and Romanian contemporary artists in an itinerant exhibition”
Várfok Gallery Group – Exhibition Program OCTOBER 26 – NOVEMBER 24, 2012
THE ESSENCES OF REALITY
(H) GYőRFFY László | HERMAN Levente | MISETICS Mátyás (H)
(RO) Radu BELCIN | Francisc CHIUARIU | Flavia PITIŞ | Bogdan RAŢA (RO)
Opening:
VÁRFOK GALLERY
H-1012 Budapest, Várfok St 11.
Thursday October 25, 2012 |
Between 7 and 9 p.m.
The exhibition is open:
Between 26.09 – 24.11.2012, from Tuesday to Saturday between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

luni, 7 mai 2012

upcoming project -"Origin'Art"


http://www.icr.ro/originartro


8 iunie - 15 iulie 2012Vernisaj : 8 iunie, 19:00 - 22:00
Curator : Cosmin Năsui
Artisti : Radu Belcin, Dragoş Burlacu, Francisc Chiuariu,
 Flavia Pitiş, Aurel Tar 
 Dorothy’s Gallery, 27 rue Keller 75011 Paris

duminică, 29 aprilie 2012

Sacrifice Generation_Génération de sacrifice


Sacrifice Generation_Génération de sacrifice
Artistes-peintres roumains contemporains: Radu Belcin, Flavia Pitiş
Curateur: Cosmin Năsui
31 mai – 30 juin 2012
VERNISSAGE Jeudi 31 mai, 19h30
Societe Generale, Paris, la Tour Maubourg
15 RUE JEAN NICOT, 75007 ouvert du Lun au Ven 09h00 à 13h00 et de 14h15 à 17h15
Avec le soutien: Institut Culturel Roumain
Partenaires: Illy, Radio Romania International, Modernism.ro

CONCEPT
Sacrifice Generation_Génération de sacrifice présente le gain de maturité et la prise de conscience de la génération actuelle vis-à-vis de la disparition des idéaux des générations précédentes. Les années ’70, ’80, ’90 en Roumanie ont vu le passage de plusieurs générations sacrifiées qui se sont confrontées aux réalités d’un présent inexistant et d’un futur qui tardait à venir. La réalité était toujours ailleurs, et les références étaient celles de l’Europe de l’Ouest, avec ses modèles déjà épuisés.

L’identité de l’Europe de l’Est s’est construite sur ces générations sacrifiées qui ont sauté plusieurs étapes pour combler des vides de civilisation (culturels, économiques). Cette rapidité dans le développement a le plus souvent mené à une redéfinition constante des identités, que ce soit au niveau individuel ou collectif. Ces identités « provisoires » ont pris racine et se sont imposées commes uniques, au détriment d’une identité bien formée. Ce processus est représenté dans les arts visuels par une absence du portrait, et des éléments du visage dans les œuvres figuratives.
ESTHETIQUE
D’un point de vue esthétique, l’art roumain contemporain a trouvé ces dernières années un appétit pour le réalisme, paré des habits très à la mode du néoréalisme.
Ce territoire est exploré par des artistes tels que Radu Belcin et Flavia Pitiş. En partant de leurs recherches sur la réalité environnante, ces deux peintres recherchent l’identité de la personne et du présent. Le cadre de cette recherche est appréhendé par le clair-obscur. La passion des ombres longilines, les points de lumière tels des spots, créent une atmosphère onirique.
Les émergences artistiques de Radu Belcin et Flavia Pitiş sont d’autant plus remarquables qu’elles franchissent la barrière des générations sacrifiées.

joi, 22 martie 2012

-STRABAG ARTAWARD-

 
I was selected by the preliminary jury to be one of the 78 artists from
905 applicants for the participation in the final elimination of the Strabag Artaward International 2012.

sâmbătă, 5 noiembrie 2011

sâmbătă, 1 octombrie 2011

upcoming project


”Colouring the Grey – State of Mind” is the second exhibition of the Romanian sequel ”Colouring the Grey” curated by Cosmin Năsui, with the artists Radu Belcin, Dragos Burlacu, Francisc Chiuariu, Ana Maria Micu, Catalin Petrisor, Flavia Pitis, Bogdan Rata and Aurel Tar. The first project, presented at Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2011, proposed a common vision and statement for a new wave of an emerging generation of Romanian contemporary artists. This second curatorial project approaches new artists and a deepen conceptual component: a particular state of mind generated by grey and by its coloring within conceptual, social, historic and artistic frameworks. It is to be exhibited in Artists House, Tel Aviv from November 27 to December 17, 2011.




miercuri, 29 iunie 2011

duminică, 26 iunie 2011