Distant Realities: Tincuta Marin

The imagination is surely an instrument of precarious certitude, for that which appears fantastic is at times real, while that which is real sometimes feels fantastic. In the art of Tincuța Marin, through drawing and collage, painting and sculpture, the imagination takes on the role of first principle. For the artist’s work is constituted of a unique and personal fusion of reimagined sources and ideas that might initially appear as distant realities.

 

While the term ‘distant realities’ owes in some respects a debt to Surrealism it has been extended and expanded into wider realms of creative suggestion and imaginings over the last sixty years. This being said a number of Rumanian artists played a significant role in the Internationalization of Surrealism from the 1930s, most notably the artists Viktor Brauner (1903-1966) and Jacques Hérold (1910-1987) among several others. The latter Hérold was born in Piatr Neamț, Western Moldavia, from early childhood lived in Galati as the son of a candy manufacturer, the same city coincidentally as Tincuța Marin. It follows similarly that the expressive paintings of Marin are born of the subjective imagination rather than any systematic compositional conceptualization. Her expressive paintings are a poetic compendium of sources that not only conjure up distant realities but also fantasies and myths that are very Romanian in origin.” Text by curator Mark Gisbourne

 

 

This event brings Tincuța Marin back to our gallery for a second time, following her exhibition Dianthus Caryophullus curated by Domenico de Chirico in 2021.

The exhibition, organized by Galeria Jecza and the Interart Triade Foundation, is part of the national cultural program “Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023” and is funded by the Timișoara Projects Center. Supported by Catena, Cramele Recaș, UniCredit Bank, and Policolor.