The well-known and popular lilliputian art space on Str. Roosevelt 2/1, White Cuib, hosted last week the opening of a new exhibition. One that no one has ever seen before, and when I say “never seen” I mean it because it was actually about 13 photos that 13 photographers never made, but they wished to and their stories.
Mircea Albutiu / Laura Bâlc / Nicu Cherciu / Tiberiu Crisan / Dorel Gaina / Cristian Ioan / Rares Ion / Raed Krishan / Marius Mariș / Julius Paul / Roxana Petrean / Soós Attila / Loránd Vakarcs invited the public to learn about undone works (how convenient for a deadline) with narrative help from George Roșu’s illustrations.
As we approached the place, not long after 7 PM, on a Friday, the street in front of the gallery was already crowded, with Dorel Găină sitting in the middle of it, on a chair, almost as a part of the exhibition, with his statuary and movie character-like figure.
The visitors created a system of which 2 or 3 people entered the space, while 2 or 3 others left it so that everyone could get inside and read carefully each one of the 13 stories. Because they were real stories that one couldn’t understand just by watching the illustrations from a distance. In my opinion, this is by itself a nice way of relating to the artworks and the atmosphere.
Once in there, in the middle of the exhibition, you tended to look first at the drawings, which are colourful and goofy, in the established playful manner of working developed by George Roșu. Once caught by the illustration, the eyes would go down on the text, revealing some of the most intimate and emotional moments of some photographers' lives. One of them, Marius Mariș chose for this topic a moment where he had the opportunity to catch a nice frame with people dancing while being at the Pata Rât concert hosted by Jazz in the Park last year. Seconds before shooting, a few little kids came to him and ask him to let them play with his camera. He then decided to let that shot go away and just share a joyful moment with the kids. Another one that stayed in my memory was made by Roxana Petrean that resembled a moment catching a ravishing rain and while the couple was just enjoying a picknick, under an umbrella, as if were the sunniest day. She took the photo, but not checking the if the exposure is correct, she missed the right light and atmosphere from which resulted in a boring photo with a couple sitting on the grass and nothing about the surrealist frame in rain.
Besides these ones, two or three of them just made me recall those long nights before the deadline when you can’t get a really good idea and you just send something. I think in this case, the artists were not prepared or they did not dig enough down the memory lane.
Thinking about the exhibition as a whole, it is certainly something to see. It’s something else, not painting, not sculpture, not abstract works, just a conceptual exhibition using storytelling as the main technique, visual or written, that addresses a very human and vulnerable side of creation. Something that everyone has experienced at least once in their lives, that something that could have been big, amazing, astonishing, but the timing was just wrong.
The exhibition is open from 23th to 26th of May.
Mircea Albutiu / Laura Bâlc / Nicu Cherciu / Tiberiu Crisan / Dorel Gaina / Cristian Ioan / Rares Ion / Raed Krishan / Marius Mariș / Julius Paul / Roxana Petrean / Soós Attila / Loránd Vakarcs invited the public to learn about undone works (how convenient for a deadline) with narrative help from George Roșu’s illustrations.As we approached the place, not long after 7 PM, on a Friday, the street in front of the gallery was already crowded, with Dorel Găină sitting in the middle of it, on a chair, almost as a part of the exhibition, with his statuary and movie character-like figure.
The visitors created a system of which 2 or 3 people entered the space, while 2 or 3 others left it so that everyone could get inside and read carefully each one of the 13 stories. Because they were real stories that one couldn’t understand just by watching the illustrations from a distance. In my opinion, this is by itself a nice way of relating to the artworks and the atmosphere.
Once in there, in the middle of the exhibition, you tended to look first at the drawings, which are colourful and goofy, in the established playful manner of working developed by George Roșu. Once caught by the illustration, the eyes would go down on the text, revealing some of the most intimate and emotional moments of some photographers' lives. One of them, Marius Mariș chose for this topic a moment where he had the opportunity to catch a nice frame with people dancing while being at the Pata Rât concert hosted by Jazz in the Park last year. Seconds before shooting, a few little kids came to him and ask him to let them play with his camera. He then decided to let that shot go away and just share a joyful moment with the kids. Another one that stayed in my memory was made by Roxana Petrean that resembled a moment catching a ravishing rain and while the couple was just enjoying a picknick, under an umbrella, as if were the sunniest day. She took the photo, but not checking the if the exposure is correct, she missed the right light and atmosphere from which resulted in a boring photo with a couple sitting on the grass and nothing about the surrealist frame in rain.
Besides these ones, two or three of them just made me recall those long nights before the deadline when you can’t get a really good idea and you just send something. I think in this case, the artists were not prepared or they did not dig enough down the memory lane.
Thinking about the exhibition as a whole, it is certainly something to see. It’s something else, not painting, not sculpture, not abstract works, just a conceptual exhibition using storytelling as the main technique, visual or written, that addresses a very human and vulnerable side of creation. Something that everyone has experienced at least once in their lives, that something that could have been big, amazing, astonishing, but the timing was just wrong.
The exhibition is open from 23th to 26th of May.
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