Matei Arnăutu
The storage place-workshop, seen in its essence, is taken over by the artist and transformed into an object of research and reinterpretation. This space becomes an alter ego of today's society, an image in which disorder, chaos, useless things, separation from the past, often idealized, occur as the result of a dramatic rupture between different mentalities and generations. Matei Arnăutu disclosed that the source of his inspiration was given by the following reality: ''in the living space of a Bucharest inhabitant or in his near vicinity, there is a storage space, a closet, a garage, a box in the basement of the ''bloc''(block of flats), etc., where those objects that no longer find their purpose or usefulness in the house are stored, yet the owner "does not dare" to relinquish. This mild form of Compulsive hoarding, creates some cluttered spaces, some of which become veritable "time capsules" containing objects that can illustrate the evolution of a culture over several generations."
The gallery space is transformed into a large assemblage-installation, where the artist creates a series of mini-installations out of found objects, some of them with art historical filiations - the bicycle wheel, the clothes peg, the television - that brings to mind Duchamp, Vostel or Beuys. A vernacular, ingenuous universe is transposed to describe a social phenomenon tending towards dissolution.