Dinosaurs Live in the Seven Overlaid Skies, by Ingrid Dan, ITA, 1st year

     

  Last Friday, on May 3rd, White Cuib gallery held the opening of Tincuța Marin’s exhibition called “Dinosaurs Live in the Seven Overlaid Skies”. Born in Galați, the artist studies painting at the University of Art and Design. She has had three solo exhibitions so far: ”In the dinosaurus World stars are green” at Atelier Patru, “Theatre of the mind ” at La Cave Gallery at the French Institute, and “Distorted Realities” at Casa Matei. She has also shown her work in a number of group exhibitions, some of the more important ones being “The Night Watch”, “Sottobosco”, both having taken place at the Art Museum, and "A word for each of us" at Richter FineArt Gallery in Rome. Open until May 15th, the first day of the exhibition attracted a rather large number of people interested to see what the young artist had to offer in her new works. The project includes elements of stage design, street art, and the everyday.

            Through a expressionist filter, the artist aims to suggest a dreamlike atmosphere and to convey emotion, without indulging in any narrative cliches. What can easily be seen is the preoccupation with things such as dreams, magic, form, and the absurd, through the atypical faces of the deformed characters in the works, the colors, the composition. The artist succeeds in creating the impression of the world of dreams, the images just as absurd, the space just as unclear, the events presented just as incoherent as what one might remember of a dream just after waking up, before it is partially or entirely forgotten.

Five easy pieces, by Madalina Matei, Ist year ITA

There’s a small exhibition in town, hosted by White Cuib gallery, also a small blank space right in the heart of Cluj-Napoca. The exhibition is called “Five easy pieces”, which is also the name of a movie from the 70’s. The name of the movie comes from the piano exercises that the main character does in his childhood. There a huge gap between what the pianist in the movie could have become and what he does in the present. The artist decided to take a step back from the art space, a few years ago, but that’s the only resemblance between him and the pianist. His name is Cristi Pogăcean and he studied sculpture at the Art and Design University in Cluj-Napoca. There are five art pieces in the exhibition, as you might have guessed. They’re apparently simple objects but they stick with you because of their contemporary aesthetics and the fact that they are recognizable symbols at an universal level. I recommend you go see them for yourself, from 6 to 9 pm, until the 28^th of November.