Art Exhibition, Press Timisoara Contemporary Exhibition The Timisoara Contemporary Exhibition brings together two generations of artists who have marked the history of Timisoara's art from the 1960s until today - a project curated by Andrei Jecza in an exceptional space in Timisoara, at the former War Chancellery on Vasile Alecsandri Street No.1. For the last 5 days of visiting this project, please make an online appointment, as the current exceptional situation does not allow for more than 10 visitors in the space simultaneously.
Exhibiting Artists: Roman Cotoșman, Constantin Flondor, Peter Jecza, Paul Neagu, Ciprian Radovan, Doru Tulcan, along with Dacian Andoni, Laurian Popa, Liliana Mercioiu-Popa, Mircea Popescu, Bogdan Nueleanu, Petrica Ștefan, and Miki Velciov.
Organizer: Timisoara Municipality
Invited to take care of this exhibition, we aimed to create a bridge across generations, to present the relevance of the creative act, regardless of age and language. "Ideas flow in the air," said sculptor Peter Jecza. Contemporary art has no nationality, knows no spatial boundaries, borders, passport, political color, or age. The timelessness of artistic expression is at the core of this exhibition and the selection of artists. There are ideas that flow, a transgenerational dialogue between artists - such an example would be Liliana Mercioiu Popa and Miki Velciov, who continue ideas related to perspective and the immutable relationship between nature and mathematics, perception and reality, ideas initiated by Paul Neagu or Constantin Flondor and Doru Tulcan within the Sigma group. An imaginary dialogue across time also exists between Mircea Popescu and Roman Cotoșman. And even though Mircea Popescu's abstract language, filled with apparent humor, sets him apart from Roman Cotoșman's neo-suprematist prayer-like art, both artists still manage to essentialize a very sensitive inner world, geometrically decomposed, through very similar formal means. At a superficial glance, we could mistake the psychedelic-oniric world of Ciprian Radovan's works from the 1970s for simple chromatic experiments; however, they were actually inaugurating the idea of interactive installation, an immersive experience that invited the public into a three-dimensional universe through two-dimensional painting. We experience this hallucinatory illusion of a dream come true also in front of Laurian Popa and Petrică Ștefan's paintings. The brilliant sculptures of Peter Jecza, majestic birds at rest, dominate the exhibition and anchor it in a reality where nature reclaims its rights and demolishes carefully built walls, just as Dacian Andoni suggests in his extremely subtle drawings.
In most cases, there is a very important meeting point in the careers of the selected artists. We believe in the importance of the Timisoara School of Art, the formative masters, and the future masters who, in turn, continue to inspire and shape new generations of artists.
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Introductory text by Andrei Jecza
