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Since opening to the public in 2012, Aiurart has been a venue for contemporary art exhibitions, devoted to the diversity of contemporary forms of artistic expression from transdisciplinary productions and transversal art projects to paintings, sculpture, video art and installations.
Aiurart is a non-profit arts organization, an open space for curatorial projects and a contemporary art gallery, being run with the support of a consulting board. To date, Aiurart has staged more than forty exhibitions, including group exhibitions with international artists. This helped turn Aiurart into one of the most active contemporary art centers in Romania’s capital city, over the past couple of years.
In addition to the value of the art projects presented at Aiurart we aim a constant research focused on staging the curatorial discourse and innovation, on spatial narrative and on the role of the exhibition space as an immersive environment. Our curators and the exhibit design team are reinventing Aiurart’s place, facilitating each time the forming of a special relationship between the exhibited works of art, the place and its guests.
Aiurart brings forth the joy of contemporary aesthetics and the intimacy of a pre-war mansion, exquisitely refurbished with the help of the architect Bogdan Pop and the ‘Asdesign 95’ team - a piece of restoration work nominated at the 2013 Bucharest Architecture Annual. Thus, Aiurart brings a telling contribution to the existing urban space restoration work whilst revitalizing the surrounding area through its cultural programmes.
Inside Cărtureşti Carusel bookstore located in the historic center of Bucharest, on Lipscani Street no. 55, a contemporary art gallery was opened recently. The exhibition program proposed by Aiurart includes retrospective curatorial selections, suitable for the location in this agora and relevant for the recent art history.
Eveniment NAG
Ecaterina Vrana | I despair, therefore I exist.
19:00 - 04:00 BucharestArtist: Ecaterina Vrana
Curator: Erwin Kessler
An exhibition powered by Aiurart and MARe (The Recent Art Museum)
"Ecaterina Vrana appears to have o problem: all her paintings are soaked in the experience of being alive. Seemingly incapable of distancing herself – either conceptually, reflectively, critically or strategically – and unable (or maybe unwilling) to take a step back from her egotistic activism or from anything wise or otherwise, she indulges exclusively and autistically in her very own being, in her tumultuously abrupt life. Painting is a leech sucking up all the rotten blood on her face turned into a sore, after being incessantly struck. Fat and sleek as a leech that had had its fill, the painting tumbles down upon the beholder that had been seemingly overawed by the strident impudence: her paintings ooze the whole spectrum of horrors coming out of a stark-naked ego, which has not even been covered by the see-through veil of culture, letting out into the open her naughtiest instances of longing and her most detailed debt lists ever. Ecaterina Vrana’s art is primitive, primordial even, as if it's coming down from Lascaux. Her canvases are merely a makeshift of the cave wall which she daubs ceaselessly in pigment, hoping that one day, the cow, the sheep, the chicken or the human that were painted there will get entangled in her spells so that she may go on to feed handsomely the orgy of fears that keep pushing her around. Hence the reason why her paintings cannot be further from their being “a secondary game and purer at that” as they are instead a primary game, the most ritually unclean and raw game that there ever was: the game that brings about ceaseless desperation, the shock and awe of finding out that pain doesn’t kill, it turns into addictive existence."
Erwin Kessler (translation: Bogdan Lepadatu)
The exhibition continues inside Carturesti Carusel (55 Lipscani St.)
