Summa

When we talk about creation, we are talking about Us and about the premises of our choices.

The exhibition brings together large-sized objects and object installations, which the artist has conceived and processed using a wide range of plastic expression and rendering means such as EPS, PUR, polyurethane, water, oats, wheat, and resins, complemented by sounds and lights.

The exhibition route has been articulated into four frames proposing an itinerary meant to provoke the audience to reflect on the notions of oscillation, choices, consequences, balance, and commitment. Our choices are translated into facts, into actions. It is necessary to interrogate the nature and premises of these choices, to understand the course of actions stemming from them, and above all, to meditate on the effects of our individual and collective actions, which summed up result in the reality we experience.

The installation “Beyond (Our Origin)” opens the exhibition route and represents, on a scale, a blue whale calf, the largest mammal of the biosphere and also one of the oldest species, whose appearance dates back to the Pleistocene (1.5-1.25 million years ago). The central object is suspended above a basin of black water, on the surface of which float the debris of the moment – plastic bottles, masks, surgical gloves, etc. The second frame titled “Year Two” is signed by Florin Adrian Marc, Toma Bărbulescu, and Adelina Laura Bulibașa. The installation aims to anchor the viewer in the traumatic present, a result of collective actions and decisions, and to make them aware of the fragility of their existence. The work “Fields of Love,” signed by Ioan-Septimiu Jugrestan and Florin Adrian Marc, has as its central element an equestrian ronde-bosse depicted in an ecorche (a horse without skin) stepping into a field of wheat. The frame transports the viewer into an idyllic, serene space, juxtaposed with the vulnerable equine element, thus creating a strong semantic contrast. “Beyond/the Pillars” closes the exhibition route and challenges the viewer to question the notions of light, darkness, oscillation, balance, and to meditate on creation as an absolute paradigm.