RAD Art Fair 2023: Constantin Flondor, Péter Jecza, Tincuța Marin, Ioan Aurel Mureșan, Genti Korini

Constantin Flondor (b. 1936, Cernăuți) is a central figure of the Timișoara art scene and an internationally recognized artist, known for his activity as co-founder of the experimental groups 1+1+1 (1966–1969), Sigma (1969–1981), and Prolog (since 1985). His practice is deeply connected to a pedagogical and experimental approach, developed in the 1970s together with his colleagues at the Art High School in Timișoara, and later extended through his role as visiting professor at the Beratzhausen summer schools in Germany (since 1993).

Flondor’s work unfolds across a wide range of media, including installation, performance, drawing, painting, film, mail art, and collaborative interventions in nature, often realized alongside fellow artists and students. His artistic research is centered on the observation and interpretation of the living world, exploring the relationships between organic structures and geometry, as well as between the mysterious laws of nature and the rigor of mathematical systems. 

 

Péter Jecza  (b. 1939 - d. 2009), renowned nationally and internationally, is regarded as a pioneer in contemporary Romanian sculpture. His body of work, comprising over 1200 cataloged pieces, explores a wide spectrum of sculptural styles.

Born on October 16, 1939, in Sfântu Gheorghe, Covasna, Romania, Peter Jecza graduated from the "Ion Andreescu" Academy of Arts in Cluj in 1963. He is a member of the Fine Arts Union of Romania and has served as a professor at the Academy of Arts in Timișoara.

His work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions across Europe, including Wuppertal, Bucharest, Berlin, Zürich, Düsseldorf, Basel, Mannheim, and Timișoara, among others, between 1972 and 1996. Internationally, he has participated in notable events such as the Barcelona Biennial (1975), and multiple editions of the “Dante” Biennial in Ravenna (1975–1987), as well as in group exhibitions with the "R.B.K." Group in Wuppertal from 1973 to 1986.

 

Tincuța Marin  was born 1995 in Galati and graduated from The University of Art and Design, Cluj, Romania, in 2019. Her recent solo exhibitions include Gloaming at Galeria Plan B in Berlin; Where the Sun Sleeps at Oratorio dei Crociferi in Venice; Purring Figure at Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam and Distant Realities at Jecza Gallery in Timisoara. Tincuta Marin's work have also been exhibited recently in the following group exhibitions: There were times I wanted to change the world, Paltim Timisoara, Timisoara; One Eye Laughing, the Other Crying. Art From Romania. Ovidiu Șandor Collection, The International Cultural Centre, Krakow; A Tower of Birds, Conector – On – Off, Cluj-Napoca; autoportret, Galeria Plan B, Berlin and The Picasso Effect, Museum of Recent Art (MARe), Bucharest.

 

Ioan Aurel Mureșan  was born on June 4, 1959, in Ceanu Mare, Cluj County. He graduated from the “Ion Andreescu” Institute of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca.

Works by the artist are held in the collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania (MNAC), as well as in numerous private collections in Romania and abroad. Beginning in the 1990s, his work took on a Neo-Expressionist fervor. Finding painting alone insufficient for his expressive needs, he complemented it with poetry and writing, while also expanding beyond traditional supports to include materials and techniques such as wood, metal, and textile collage, forming an image of raw materiality.

Ioan Aurel Mureșan was a tenured faculty member in the Painting Department at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca starting in 1990.

 

Genti Korini  (b. 1979, Tirana, Albania) works at the intersection of fiction and historical reality, past and present, perception and projection, abstraction and representation. Drawing from the cultural and historical frameworks of his native country Albania, his practice examines the afterlives of modernity, modernism, post-communism, and the neoliberal present – less as fixed narratives than as unstable conditions. His work is research-driven and draws from a diverse range of influences, including art history, architecture, literature, and film.
Working across painting, moving image, photography, and objects, Korini invites viewers to look beyond the surface and engage with deeper political, social, and conceptual implications of the work. His imagery often explores the migration and transformation of decontextualized forms and symbols, treating them as markers of broader cultural and ideological change.