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GROTTO
Strada Spatarului nr 17BIS

Grotto is a Bucharest based alternative space with a focus on art furniture and design, presenting contemporary works. Founded and directed by a multidisciplinary collective that is on a journey in finding works that challenge the boundaries between furniture design and functional art. The gallery's mission is to promote and support emerging artists and designers that create their personal and transcendental realm. Recently opened in 2022, the gallery is situated on the first floor of a modernist residential building, in Armeneasca area on Spatarului Street, no. 17BIS. The "vitrine" concept is favored by the elongated layout that brings a generous view of the entire space through large glass walls, which allow the visitors to see the exhibition outside of the opening hours.

GROTTO presents RITUAL RECONSTRUCTION

INSTALATIE


Tip eveniment
EXCLUSIV la NAG
Perioada Expozitie
30.09.2022 - 01.10.2022
Grotto space resembles to an artificial rock formation, that is reminiscent to primitive caverns, sacred spaces that hold spiritual realms, used as shrines for the obscure worlds. They were often used as ritual spaces because of the associations with the earth itself, becoming a passage to imaginary landscapes. Inside, grottoes were decorated with objects that had mythical symbolism, inspired from nature, rocks, shells, flora, fauna, pieces from an underworld. Once inside, people have their own sensorial experience, searching for an unique connection with the divine. RITUAL RECONSTRUCTION aims to put together components, art pieces and design objects, that build a parallel realm of sensations, that invite one to contemplate and discover. Grotto space will gather art pieces from Giulia Cretulescu, Lorena Cocioni and Muro Muro that will shape an enigmatic territory, that feels both familiar and strange.