The opening was on 4 December 2024 the exhibition is still available for visit every workday between 9-18, entrance is free and the artworks are available for sale. For any details please use the contact page.Thank you
Art gallery in Amazon Iași headquarters
Str. Sfântul Andrei, no. 39 A (Palas Campus)
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From the link below you cand download the PDF catalog
with the all artworks that are presented in this exhibition, part of this project.
After years of experimenting with and applying artistic principles, I’ve come to believe that authentic art naturally gravitates toward simplicity. In this exhibition, my artistic drawing process intertwines with dance energy in a visual dialogue that transcends into line and movement.
The central theme – contemporary dance – though seemingly simple, has captivated me through its ability to communicate directly with the audience, without artifice. The dancers, freed from elaborate costumes and theatrical conventions, express themselves in a universal language of pure gesture. Their bare feet become points of connection with space, and the simplicity of their attire allows each movement to be read with clarity. Body expressiveness thus becomes the main instrument of communication, similar to the simple and authentic gesture I use in my own artistic process.
The large-scale artworks respond to the need to give the drawing line the necessary space to unfold in all its amplitude. Here, the line becomes a tool for exploring movement, going beyond the mere mechanical reproduction of dance positions to capture that moment of tension where the dancer’s body and artistic gesture merge. The vast dimension of the canvases allows this fusion to manifest at an almost real scale, intensifying the connection with the viewer.
Complementary to the canvases painted with colored strokes, the monochrome drawings on paper follow the same “ritual”.
They are concentrated studies of the same energy, transposed into a more confined space, where the vibrated line acquires a particular intensity. Each drawing captures a moment of dance both visually and kinetically, through the almost chaotic movement of the drawing hand, creating a direct connection between the artist’s inner rhythm and the trace left on paper.
The three-dimensional volumetric element introduced in this pictorial and graphic space represents a metamorphosis of the two-dimensional surface into palpable volume. Using unconventional materials – copper wire and layers of painted paper – I have transposed into three-dimensional space the same energy explored by the drawings and paintings. The invisible wire skeleton constructs the movement, while the layers of painted paper provide volume and create an organic dialogue with the other works through the pictorial quality of the strokes and the dynamics of the drawing.
“DANS MUT” represents the culmination of a long artistic exploration where technique and the spontaneity harmoniously merge. The vibrated line, which has become my personal artistic signature, is not a simple stylistic artifice, but a natural way to transpose movement energy into visual form. It is an organically developed language, where artistic gesture and the represented subject – dance – become inseparable.
An opening like a calm island
Last night, in a very suitable room in the Amazon building, I attended the opening of the exhibition Silent Dance by the visual artist Iulian Copăcel, an artist I have known for almost twenty-five years, whose exhibitions I have seen before and whom I like very much. I don’t know why, in the hustle and bustle we have been living in for about a month, the event caused me a feeling of peace. There are no artistic reasons, as you can see in the album I will send you, IC has nervous lines! Maybe from the title of the exhibition. Maybe because the expressiveness sometimes causes me this feeling. Maybe because I found some friends I hadn’t seen in a long time, from the artist himself to the excellent photo artist Andra-Alisa Vacaru and Gabriel Cucuteanu, the writer Lucian Merișca, etc. Perhaps for all these reasons and the contrast between the hustle and bustle of our days and a calm island, that of art after you linger on it. Iulian spoke with substance about the exhibition and after his journey in art, the host representative argued why his large company also assumes the function of supporting artists and the arts. I evoked the shared biographical path with Iulian and concluded by appealing to the acquisition of works, because the fine arts cost a lot! I also reserved a work that I had seen at the Erotica exhibition, in the hall at Baia Turcească, about a month ago. No, I am not a collector, I only have two paintings by Val Gheorghiu, two by my friend and colleague from Munich Alexandru Tomozei, a portrait by Zamfira Bîrzu and a small “blue nude” by Iulian Copăcel, which adorned the cover of my book of short stories Check Point Charlie almost a quarter of a century ago. Looking at the exhibition yesterday and thinking about that painting, I was happy to notice the thread of continuity in Iulian’s painting, beyond the technical and other developments that have occurred in the meantime. It is a sign of his strong artistic personality. I had a pleasant moment yesterday evening.
Author: Liviu Antonesei
Text taken and translated from: https://antoneseiliviu.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/un-vernisaj-ca-o-insula-calma/
