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Eveniment NAG

Good Night, Sweet Dreams

19:00 - 04:00
exhibition

artists: Salez Poivrez (Geraldine Aresteanu, Irina Teodorescu)

Irina and Géraldine almost crossed paths in high school and then again when they went to Club A, and even while eating bagels at Foisor. They eventually met on a boulevard in Paris and they finally settled on chicken and rice. While they were still on the rice but before they ever got to the chicken, they decided that they would do great things together. It's now been 12 years and Irina and Géraldine have taken on the name Salez Poivrez. They put together art shows with photographs and drawings, installations with magnets and spirals, books with mute children and unsympathetic characters and, of course, art interventions with people. Up until now, all of these things have been on French soil, not far from where they live, but the time has finally come for them to return to their roots presenting something in Bucharest, at Aiurart!

This little something will be with you, night walkers and gallery visitors. Come and share, take pictures and write down your nocturnal Springtime dreams. Irina will cull your reveries and transcribe them for all to see! Géraldine will immortalise you in your dormant postures... So come and play with the light and see in the dark!

Good Night, Sweet Dreams is an invitation to submerse oneself among the waves of the sleeping mind, a novel moment of introspection and common creation, during which Salez Poivrez will become the catalyst and the participant the real artist. A collective experience towards a unique creation - an object and souvenir that will fit on your wall!

Eveniment NAG

Imaginarium fotograficus

19:00 - 04:00
photo

artists: Cristina Şoiman (photos)Dan Pleşa (stories)

curator: Dan Pleşa

Strange are the strategies whereby one attempts to cement a friendship: confessions, nights spent together, beers, holidays, films seen together and commented. And necessarily photos. Which add slowly to your personal album. More and more of them. 

Often photographs outlast the friendship. Then they stop belonging to you, the story of that friendship is just a story which has its own time, its own fantesy, its own fiction.

Cristina Şoiman has been playing around taking pictures of her with her friends. Pictures in a wacky album, meant to show that beyond the facebook screen (the place where she usually picked her friends/subjects) are people whom you can actually touch. Posted on the internet, the photographs lose some of their personal character. Anyone can look at them and, not knowing or barely knowing the protagonists, they are free to imagine stories. Dan Pleşa has been putting those stories down on paper. 

The photo exhibition Remember the Story is the place where, on the opening on the White Night of the Galleries, photographs and stories will meet, in a game and an invitation to play. and the gallery visitors can, as they allow themselves to be inspired by the show, reinvent stories and photographs in a perfect match, according to their own taste and personal preferences.

Manhood / AMR

19:00 - 04:00
sculpture

artist: Vlad Berte 

proposed by: Ioana Ciocan

The transformation of a boy into a man was done by an initiatic process: the national service. This last stage of the transformation, a mental and emotional stage, is rendered by Vlad Berte (born 1985, Cluj-Napoca) through the defining objects of Romanian manhood. Army service completed, the individual would return to his community a "man", a term which attested to his status as head of the family. Over the last decade, the icons that defined the idea of "I shall return a man" have disappeared. Berte investigates the relics of a lost age.

Tranzit

19:00 - 04:00
painting

artist: Dragoş Burlacu

curator: Cosmin Năsui

Dragos Burlacu’s latest series of paintings, titled “Transit” (“to pass across or through”, Oxford Dictionaries) is a marked milestone in his dynamic, ongoing voyage. Seeking the means by which to further the aesthetics of painting, Dragos Burlacu reveals pictorial spaces as if they were transited by a host of tendencies that are equally seeking successive redefinitions of painting within the contemporary art history context. Despite the fact that his painting focuses on the new realist figuration, it is equally lacking the realism it seeks to achieve, painting by cloaking reality in a garb of absence while leaving pictorial spaces undefined and thus leading the way towards magical realism. In “Transit”, Dragos Burlacu uses the freshly painted surfaces’ technique, aka a la prima, interspersed with areas painted in a hyper-realist manner. The sheer ingenuity of a well-nigh imperceptible rough sketch is intersected by the obsessive over-emphasis of only a few body details. The descriptive and the narrative are literally overawed by the orgasmic vibrations of colour escaping the pigeonholing of drawing.