{"id":1411,"date":"2025-04-01T08:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/artist\/ioana-batranu\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:05:26","slug":"ioana-batranu","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/artist\/ioana-batranu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ioana B\u0103tr\u00e2nu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ioana B\u0103tr\u00e2nu (b. 1960) is known for a valiant, prolific, and significant work, publicly present since the mid-1980s, in a tough period, which left its mark on the artist\u2019s destiny. Ioana Batr\u00e2nu\u2019s painting absorbs everyday reality, the marginality of existence, and the contradictions of our spaces, marked by imposed and self-imposed social norms. The tension of her paintings is enhanced by the expression of her brushwork and chosen chromatics, and the recurrence of themes (Melancholic Interiors, Virgins, Closed Gardens, Dolls, and others) establishes a personal style of exceptional value and vitality. The spatial typologies the artist chooses to work with are reminiscent of those \u201cspecies of spaces\u201d that Georges Perec saw as extensions of memory: \u201cspace as inventory, space as invention.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ioana B\u0103tr\u00e2nu (b. 1960) is known for a valiant, prolific, and significant work, publicly present since the mid-1980s, in a tough period, which left its mark on the artist\u2019s destiny. Ioana Batr\u00e2nu\u2019s painting absorbs everyday reality, the marginality of existence, and the contradictions of our spaces, marked by imposed and self-imposed social norms. The tension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"bienala":[],"class_list":["post-1411","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bienala","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bienala?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}