Bogdan Vlăduță. WHEN I PAINT I KNOW I WILL DIE! - A visual essay on Van Gogh

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The opening will take place on Thursday, April 14, 2022, from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm, at Sector 1 Gallery, 29 Băiculești Street, Bucharest.

In a visual and written essay, Bogdan Vlăduță enters into dialogue with the themes, methods, and symbols in the work of the master who inspired him - Vincent Van Gogh. The gallery space is restructured into a new visual territory that includes large works, installations, drawings and in-situ interventions of the artist.

Bogdan Vlăduță (b. 1971, Bucharest) is a Romanian painter. He was a senior lecturer at the University of Fine Arts, Bucharest (1996-2009) and the co-founder of RECYCLE NEST Gallery, Bucharest (2009-2011). During 2002-2004, he received a Vasile Pirvan Grant from the Romanian Academy in Rome. He earned his PhD from the University of Fine Arts, Bucharest with a dissertation titled “The Roman Landscape- A painter's vision of Rome''. He is the recipient of several prizes inclusing Anastasia Foundation’s Prize for Painting and The Prize ``Europe seen by the Romanian Painters'' from The Accademy of Fine Arts, Romania. Solo shows include X'S and MARTYRS, Baril Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, L'ECHO DES MURMURES - Regards sur la scène contemporaine roumaine, Galerie Delaunay, Paris, Loci, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, War makes Museums. Bogdan Vladuță and Ion Grigorescu, Recycle Nest Gallery, Bucharest. His works were part of numerous group exhibitions and presentations as The Art and the City, MARe Museum Bucharest, Travel Guide, Iomo Gallery, Bucharest, Network Access at Funnel Contemporary, Belgrade, Eros, your body as an excuse, MEAM, Barcelona, Mother Tongue at Sector 1 Gallery Bucharest, From different Angles, MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Art Encounters Biennial 2015. His works are included in private and institutional collections around the world. 

Founded in 2017, Sector 1 Gallery has developed a program based mainly on exhibiting contemporary artists trained around the strong artistic community in Cluj and on representing a few Post avant-garde Romanian artists. Through the exhibitions it organized, the gallery managed to challenge the fundamental directions of painting, drawing, sculpture and installation / object. Currently, the gallery focuses on the development of a diverse program that (re)presents emerging talents, as well as established artists, Romanian and international.

For further information, please contact:
Andreea Stănculeanu, Galeria Sector 1. andreea@sector1gallery.com
Cristina Bută, Galeria Sector 1. info@sector1gallery.com

The exhibition is part of the project "The enhancement of cultural entrepreneurship and the enlargement of audience through organizing the series of exhibitions About Master and Media, the paradigm of bipolarity in contemporary art.” The project takes place between September 2021 to August 2023, in partnership with VISP Norway. The total budget of the project is 217.146 Euros, of which the value of the non-refundable financial support is 195.431 Euros.

This project is financed with the support of EEA Grants 2014 – 2021 within the RO-CULTURE Programme.

The EEA Grants represent the contribution of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway towards a green, competitive and inclusive Europe.

There are two overall objectives: reduction of economic and social disparities in Europe, and to strengthen bilateral relations between the donor countries and 15 EU countries in Central and Southern Europe and the Baltics.

The three donor countries cooperate closely with the EU through the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA). The donors have provided €3.3 billion through consecutive grant schemes between 1994 and 2014. For the period 2014-2021, the EEA Grants amount to €1.55 billion.

Further information available here: www.eeagrants.org  and www.eeagrants.ro 

RO-CULTURE is implemented in Romania by the Ministry of Culture through the Project Management Unit. The Programme aims at strengthening social and economic development through cultural cooperation, cultural entrepreneurship and cultural heritage management. The total budget amounts to almost 34 million EUR. For more details: www.ro-cultura.ro