How’s Cluj art life
helping the young generation of artists? - a question often asked.
Sebastian Danciu is a young artist
from Hunedoara. He is in his second year of university- studying graphics at
University of Arts and Design Cluj-Napoca. His exhibition Step from 25 april 2018 was held in Atelier Patru, a small place on
Bulevardul Eroilor. The subject was a social study on the
relationship between artist-concept, artwork-performer and art product-viewer. Moreover, it integrates a documentation on the aesthetics of
hazard, the random, the synthetic and the organic. It presents an alternative
way to capture reality, the raw matter, before the light hits it and our brains
interpret the visual information. In addition, it tackles the matter of
printmaking, which ultimately is more than a way of multiplying an image. His
method was the following one: he used a plastic foil that he permeated with
ink, which acts as a buffer between the contact surface (paper) and the
deformed object (floor, tiles, parquet, etc.), the ink, therefore, is transferred to the paper; the remaining
traces are a sum of the interactions between man and the environment, reactions
that are going to be selected and archived by the artist.
The first impact over the onlookers
is not overwhelming. On four walls, that give you a claustrophobic sensation
and also builds a barrier between yourself and the outside, are nailed like
eight works of art, eight pieces of paper marked with different patterns and
colours. I consider that they become dependent on
the entire concept, in order for them to make sense and become art.
Contemporary art is no longer defined strictly formally, given the appearance
of the readymade, there intervenes another criterion – the embodied meaning –
that becomes mandatory for its understanding. 
For this part, I appreciate the
correlation that Sebastian made between nonverbal communication, a
collective more or less close to him, group which becomes an auxiliary character
in his personal development and his creations, and graffiti, one of his main
sources of inspiration. The urban character and the close relationship with its
support questions an aesthetics at the limit between art and vandalism.
The most important work is the one
with his own footprints, a self-portrait. The experiment took place in his working
studio, where he was the only one that passed through there, so as we looked,
there was just one kind of pattern imprinted on the paper.
The rest of
the works are situated around the city (Cluj-Napoca) where random people are
becoming part of the show and
everything becomes an erratic spectacle where actors are not aware of their
role.
Personally, I
was a bit disappointed with the place, only a room space for so many art works,
there was so little space to breathe between them, also it sent me the idea of anabandoned
place; the four white and shabby walls
from Atelier Patru are to be blamed.
I would
really like to affirm that Sebastian has a promising future in this art area,
he is a discursive artist and his work is relevant.
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