The exhibition \u201cSymmetrical, never identical\u201d is part of the Art Encounters Foundation\u2019s curatorial and strategic initiative to foster connections between different generations of artists, whose works can thus be contextualized conceptually, not only chronologically.<\/p>\n
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
Adela Giurgiu (b.1990) returns almost obsessively to several themes that occupy her pictorial workspace and which, viewed together, seem to outline a universe marked by alienation, duality, isolation, and dreaming, all amplified by the tensions of spaces in which they reside. The shadow motif can suggest both the Jungian archetype and a metaphor of time as if inspired by Haruki Murakami\u2019s writings about timeless worlds and subterranean levels, where the shadow clips out on the boundary between reality and fiction. Adela Giurgiu\u2019s recent paintings (the cycles You and Your Shadow, Lost but Found, Apparition, and others) contribute to a dialogue with Ioana Batr\u00e2nu\u2019s favorite themes, nurturing the same lonely and heavy atmosphere, in which only the imagination can cut small slits of light.<\/p>\n
The exhibition\u2019s title was inspired by a quote from the short film Les Dites Cariatides by Agn\u00e8s Varda (1928-2019), where the explorations of caryatids in Paris suggest a closer look at the sometimes invisible support structures on which all human existence relies.<\/p>\n
Financer: Centrul de Proiecte al Municipiului Timi\u0219oara
\nSponsors: ISHO, Thesaurus, Illy
\nMedia partners: TVR Timi\u0219oara, Radio Rom\u00e2nia Cultural, RFI Rom\u00e2nia, Observator Cultural, Zeppelin, Modernism, Revista Arta, The Institute, Propagarta
\nGraphic design: Karina Isar<\/p>\n
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