Alexandru Rădvan
Idols camouflaged by the tide, 2020
acrylic on canvas
70 x 70 cm
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in
Anaid Art Gallery Bucharest - presents the exhibition
"The Year The World Stopped" signed by Alexandru Rădvan.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020, from 15:00 to 19:00, the solo exhibition "The Year The World Stopped" signed by Alexandru Rădvan, curator Diana Dochia will take place at ANAID ART GALLERY Bucharest. Participation is possible only with prior appointment at the following email address: info@anaidartgallery.com.
The exhibition can also be visited online through the 3D online viewing room by accessing the following link:
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/.../the-year-the-world...
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/.../the-year-the-world...
The public of contemporary art will be able to visit the exhibition between December 15 and December 31, 2020. The visiting hours of the gallery are from Tuesday to Friday between 14:00 and 18:00 and on Saturdays by appointment. Visiting during the exhibition will be done only with a prior email at info@anaidartgallery.com.
This project is part of the Program to support art galleries in Bucharest initiated by the Capital City Hall through the General Directorate of Landscape Architecture and Public Monuments and the Expo Arte Cultural Center.
The exhibition "The Year The World Stopped" signed by Alexandru Rădvan proposes a series of paintings and a large picto-relief-textile, which were born from the experiences lived in the year of Pandemic 2020. The paintings created, mostly during the lockdown, express the impossibility of leaving a given space and the introspection to which the characters are subjected. Rădvan is an artist of extreme situations, his creative force is unleashed in the moments of balance emanating in a painting which emphasizes and questions the social structure of contemporary society. The isolation, distance, the feeling of profound loneliness, the deep silence makes their presence felt in the construction of the characters and the interiors. Some of the characters occur in the middle of lush vegetations, in the scorching sun or in clear waters reminiscent of a world that was not long ago possible.
"The Year The World Stopped" is about each of us and how we relate to a moment when our lives change in a split of a second. All the plans, desires, postponements, dreams, everything that meant today and tomorrow, received other nuances and valences, our life received a different sense and a different meaning.
The works, included in this exhibition, were created in 2020 and, are shown to the public for the first time.
The exhibition space of the gallery has been redesigned for this exhibition season to replicate a cloistered block of flats, precisely to offer a unique viewing experience. Only one person is allowed to visit the exhibition, that one may emphasize the idea of introspection and inner reflection.
The visit can take place according to the measures regarding the access and contact with the visiting public in museums and art galleries according to the Government Decision no. 476/2020 Order 2941/2020. One or maximum two persons can visit the exhibition at the same time; the distance between visitors should be 2 m, the mask to cover the mouth and nose will be worn throughout the whole visit, in the gallery courtyard and inside the gallery as well; visitors will be asked to use the hand sanitizer available at the entrance, their temperature will be measured and they need to fill out their contact details. Any visitor who does not comply with these requirements will not be able to visit the exhibition.
Curator: Diana Dochia
