Jecza Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the group exhibition More Real Than Nature, curated by Norbert Filep, bringing together works by artists Victor Ciato, Ioan Sbârciu, Radu Comșa, Simion Cernica, Leonard Silaghi, Maxim Liulca, Oana Năstăsache, Norbert Ștefan, and Mihaela Hudrea.
The exhibition explores the evolving relationship between the figurative and the abstract within the context of contemporary visual culture. When Josef Albers advocated the idea of a supra-reality of abstract painting, the relationship between figurative image and pictorial space already seemed shaken in the conventional foundations of mimesis, which had dominated painting until the early stages of modernity. The historical avant-gardes destabilized traditional perspectives of pictorial logic, reversing the relationship between the descriptive and the non-descriptive, between the figurative and the abstract. As a result, form, color, and the pictorial gesture became autonomous strategies of artistic thinking, liberated from the academic constraints of representation.
Today, this relationship is once again undergoing transformation. Screen culture dominates physical space, while visual information circulates through the immaterial infrastructure of the network. The proliferation of images appears to exceed our own sensory capacities through generative technologies that are increasingly present in contemporary visual production.
In this context, More Real Than Nature traces the trajectory of the abstract perspective across multiple generations of artists, raising the question of whether a new balance between the figurative and the abstract can be re-established within a cultural climate marked by the infusion of the digital. The exhibition thus proposes a reflection on how painting and contemporary visual practices negotiate today the status of the image in a world saturated with representations.
Visiting Schedule:
The exhibition will be open from March 20 to April 18, 2026, with visiting hours Thursday–Saturday, 11:00–19:00. Additionally, guided tours will take place every Saturday at 16:00, with prior reservation at the following link: Book here