Exhibition

Pe-trecere Pentru Mine (Passing For Myself)

8 Jul 2020 – 31 Aug 2020

Regular hours

Wednesday
13:00 – 19:00
Thursday
13:00 – 19:00
Friday
13:00 – 19:00
Saturday
11:00 – 15:00
Monday
13:00 – 19:00
Tuesday
13:00 – 19:00

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AnnArt Gallery

Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania

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Maia Ștefana Oprea’s fourth solo show at AnnArt brings together painting, mixed media and installation curated by Ana-Daniela Sultana and inspired by the new artistic vision the artist has since moving to the country side.

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A super-contemporary (b. 1987) visual artist, Maia Ștefana Oprea uses in her artistic practice her own taxonomy derived from conceptual art, which she has consolidated and developed throughout her artistic career. Thus, this selection consists in an installation with "zercs", a term-concept introduced in her glossary since 2012, which designates "abstract structures for codifying the reality". The zercs made this year become painting support and acquire plinths of various shapes and sizes. Their purpose is to watch and guard the works in the exhibition, while maintaining their interactive feature, as they can be relocated by visitors in the gallery space.

Without exclusively depicting representations of nature, the new series of works is influenced by the somewhat premonitory decision of the artist to permanently move with her family to the countryside, before the pandemic. At the end of 2019, after a period in which she oscillated between her house in Bucharest and the one in the countryside, Maia Ștefana Oprea chose a new lifestyle and a new aesthetic manifestation, far from the epicenter of the art system. Questioning, for example, the continuous production of contemporary art, the painting "Fragile" refers to the art market, especially to the transportation of works of art to fairs and exhibitions.   

Of course, this new paradigm implies a different relationship with time, hence the title of the exhibition "PASSING FOR MYSELF", which refers to spending time between horticulture, family life and artistic activity. As Maia Ștefana Oprea herself confesses, "the Mindwanderings paintings are the result of these thousands of moments gathered together, they are my passing nights when I can paint, they are the way I let time pass me by, they are creation as immersion." Moreover, about the works in the series "Plans for Building a House", she concludes that they bring together her current interests in different forms of artistic expression: both in art and in life, the discovery of permaculture as a way of living, the gradual renunciation of synthetic colors and prefabricated substrates, the manufacture of one's own natural pigments and various work tools, the delights and sorrows of manual labor ”.

Whether she treats the flat surface of the canvas or models volumetric pieces, Maia Ștefana Oprea manages to animate her works to such an extent that they, in turn, have the ability to inspire vitality to those who explore and collect them.

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Ana Daniela Sultana

Ana Daniela Sultana

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