One of the recent concluded art projects presented at Aparte Gallery was IMPERCEPTIBLE, showing a series of artworks belonging to young artists that work in various artistic mediums. The artists who exhibited are Alexandra Babin, Carina Burghelea, Mihai Chelba, Iulia Constantin, Andrei Gavriliță, Alexandru Ilievici, Miruna Lupea, Cătălin Marinescu, Radu Neacșu, Ioana Rusu, Iulian Țugui, Students of the specialties Mural Art, Photo-Video and Sculpture. Coordinators of the project was Bogdan Gavrilean, Lavinia German, Cătălin Gheorghe, Oana Nicuță Nae, Daniel Sofron, Cătălin Soreanu, Mihai Vereștiuc and technical support: Vlad Onescu, Nicu Oniciuc.

“In the margin of deviation from the conventions of expectations, the exhibition is conceptualized by translating an experience of defragmenting the investigative oscillations into apparent visual philosophies towards the controlled disorder of the limits of perceptivity. Thus, if the intrusiveness highlights the liminality, the images seem to transpire and fade at the same time contradictory of the notification. For example, immersions, displacements and defragmentations, which make the negative space become an adjective accent in the moments of revision of contemplations, create a static, cold, intermediate vertigo. In the same rhetoric, the exhibition space appears as if it were browsing like a book whose pages you can see intermittently or simultaneously. No sequence is released from the atmosphere. No fragment contradicts the disorder. Hierarchies dissolve, while geometries force the foreground, which suddenly turns into an indistinct background. One step back, between layers, erases shapes that remain only colors, or deselects colors that fade into figures, not illusions. In order to hold your breath, without dizziness, you take a deep breath and refrain from sighing. You will not feel that you are floating, only that you will become imperceptible yourself”. (Cătălin Gheorghe, curator)

"Imperceptible" is an exhibition of the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, National University of Arts "George Enescu" in Iasi, being part of a series of exhibition, editorial and discursive events held within the project "Extended Base of Activities and Practices in Arts - Specially Extended Base ”.

In the same space, we see a series of large fish "swimming" in mirrors showing their sharp teeth. Some of them even have no eyes, only disconcerting black sockets. In the next room, Freisztav's works are divided between crushed toads, glass frogs and others multiplied on the wall, a set of snakes and gutted fish whose insides can be seen in great detail.

At each end of the rooms, we can see two installations. One of them, probably the most striking, reveals monkeys sitting on logs holding objects. It is inspired by the colonization of America and the ensuing massacre. The halo of mystery and desperation conveyed by the monkeys, with their upright postures and penetrating gaze, is truly mesmerizing.

 

Freisztav's visceral aesthetics is traversed by his personal experience and the complex political context of Argentina in the 1990s, marked by neoliberalism and economic crisis. From the expressive force of animals, the artist is able to externalize the deepest part of the human condition, such as fragility. While at that time "light art" was fashionable among Argentine artists (a kind of naive kitsch), Freisztav built a personal and completely different style, much more carnal, material, and dark.

"El Búlgaro" is an exhibition that vindicates an innovative artist who was forgotten by art history. Freisztav belonged to the alternative circuit of the arts and was never able to make a living from art. He was a proletarian who worked as a bricklayer, house painter, welder, waiter, etc. Even so, his pieces reflect his passion for art. The exhibition rescues emblematic works of almost twenty years of career, whose artistic production developed throughout the 90s until his death in 2008.