For the first time present in the exhibition space of Annart Gallery in Bucharest, the artist Mihai Țopescu brings to the public a new series of works, made in various techniques, materials and textures. "Nodal", Mihai Țopescu's latest artistic project brings together works in charcoal or wood, bronze and textiles, united thematically and symbolically, in multiple forms of representation of the same motif. "Known especially for his works in glass, the artist now proposes a meeting between the object - compact forms inspired by popular architecture - and key images that together produce meanings that merge and swallow each other, functioning on a symbolic level under the sign of the union of opposites, as well like a knot (nodul).

Nodal includes a series of recent works through which the artist reveals an entire Romanian metaphysics, but also major motifs from universal art. Through his twisted rope knots, Mihai Țopescu proposes an incursion among archetypes, binds and unbinds meanings, leaving the most divergent meanings available to the viewer.

This special project, in which the knot is the leitmotif of his artistic quests, seeks a reconciliation between a world with a specific Romanian substrate and influences from universal symbolism, just as the knots join in an interlocking that gives rise to a perfect geometric body, which marks in constantly the creation of the artist", emphasizes Gigi Mihăiță, the curator of the project.

NODAL is an adjective for essential, fundamental, first order, main, basic. The node is the zero point, it is the place of intersection and crossing, it is a verge.

“According to Kirchhoff's first law, also known as the node law: the algebraic sum of the intensities of electric currents that meet in a network node is equal to zero. The sum of the inputs (energy, talent, inspiration, etc.) equals the sum of the outputs (the art object and its qualities). As the ladder goes up and down at the same time, the knot ties and unties. (…) The artist is assertive and ambiguous at the same time. Through his art, Mihai Țopescu asks questions and gives possible answers, encouraging the viewer to be participative in the relationship with these works”, adds the curator.

DANA Art Gallery in Iasi, Romania presents the exhibition "Fragmentarium", a project that includes works of painting, drawing and photography by the visual artist Dacian ANDONI, Assoc.prof. at the Faculty of Arts and Design within the West University of Timișoara.

Curators of the project were Smaranda Bostan and the art critic Doina Emilia Mândru, who gave inspired hermeneutical addresses at the opening, together with the collector Ioan Bizău, the poet and teacher Adrian Alui Gheorghe and Cristian N. Ungureanu, from "George Enescu" National University of Arts in Iasi.

Dacian Andoni was born in Arad, Romania and studied painting at the "George Enescu" Art Academy (now "George Enescu" National University of Arts in Iasi), in the class of professor Adrian Podoleanu. He is a member of the Union of Visual Artists in Romania. He is currently a university professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Western University of Timișoara.

"In his current art collection, Dacian Andoni explores the symbolic and expressive potential of complex and harmonious subjects and visual representations, true centers of positivity in the ancestral archetypal fabric of the world, with his attention focused on the demiurgic condition and vocation of the human being, through transfiguration alchemy of some practices and elements specific to the construction of houses in the traditional Romanian and universal space. To this category of images are added transfigurations of some landscape fragments or "angelic" explorations, perspectives from Above on the anatomy of some localities or a carpet of dry leaves, all of which were received by the artist with the eye of the heart and transposed into pictorial, graphic or photographs of a refined poetics and metaphysical rigor, creations that have the quality of receiving and emitting energy, through the multiple visual stimuli through which the artist generates the power of transposing his own founding concepts and symbols into cosmogonic and poetic representations, equally inspired. Dacian Andoni's images vibrate on the cyclical and alternating rhythm of the attraction of the world and our civilization to the Sky and then to the Earth, in fulfillment of the disturbing and endless fact of Existence." - pointed out Cristian Ungureanu, from "George Enescu" National University of Arts in Iasi.

(...) In the small universe closed between walls, the hortus conclusus cultivated by the painter, the eye that easily encompasses the whole contemplates, searches, compares, chooses, discovers the motif, then transposes it as a fragment in some medium - drawing, photograph or oil painting. The gaze then goes up to the patch of sky on which the clouds roam, illuminating the two workshops, the inner one, another one to be arranged, with the windows to the garden and the perpetual one, open to the sun, the clouds, the city that can barely be guessed beyond the hidden wall of vegetation. (...) - we learn from Doina Mândru, art critic.

The exhibition opened on November 15, can still be visited until December 9, 2022.