All Times At Once
“Ioana Nemeș. All Times At Once” at MNAC Bucharest
April 03, 2025 | Cosmina Marcela OLTEAN ArtPage
MNAC galleries host a solo exhibition of the late artist Ioana Nemeș (1979 - 2011), a retrospective and recuperatory solo exhibition, in a curatorial project by KILOBASE BUCHAREST (Sandra Demetrescu & Dragoș Olea), realized with the support of UniCredit Bank and Carl von Linde Foundation. The exhibition can be visited through April 13, 2025.
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| The UNTITLED series |
ALL TIMES AT ONCE traces the non-linear path of Ioana Nemeș's development, from the beginnings of her artistic biography, projecting the works against the complex background of her working processes and research: important series such as "Monthly Evaluations" (2005 - 2010), "Relics for the Afterfuture" (2009), "Untitled" (2010), "Expensive Fiasco / Cheap Success" (2010) are presented alongside previously unpublished materials, thus facilitating an understanding of her multiple conceptual, methodological and, last but not least, formal developments.
Consisting of two major sections within the exhibition “Ioana Nemeș. All Times At Once”, the manifesto-series MONTHLY EVALUATIONS was gradually formulated by the artist between [2003-] 2005 – 2010 [-2011] out of a desire “to record, dissect, understand and describe intangibles such as life or time”. In a process of extreme honesty, the artist devised a set of parameters for evaluating and visualizing each day, developed and tested between 2003 and 2004: P [physical], E [emotional], I [intellectual], F [financial] and L [luck], all rated on a scale from -10 to +10.
At the intersection between diary, self-evaluation and meditations on broader themes, artist Ioana Nemeș MONTHLY EVALUATIONS series is structured around the relationship between language and image: subjective states are matched, in Ioana’s translations, by a numerical, mathematical and chromatic evaluation system, in an attempt to elaborate a vocabulary of emotions, inspired by the theories of Swiss psychologist Max Lüscher on emotion and colour.
The UNTITLED series (2010-2011) showcases Ioana Nemeș's fascination with encoding and translating colors to reveal precise emotional nuances. Using ready-made Benjamin Moore paint color cards with poetic names, she created visual poems resembling haikus. These collages explore time, loss, spirituality, love, and queer fantasies through the interplay of colors and their evocative labels.
Fifty work-days selected from the vast archive of the artist Ioana Nemeș are presented on the 3rd floor of the Museum. The fragments, presented in the version most often used by the artist - the mural intervention - many exhibited for the first time, reveal the essence of her enduring ritual.
The archive of over a thousand days forms an eclectic thematic universe. The works function as a portal between fiction and reality, reflecting through concise language the tension between objective and psychological time.
Statement - KILOBASE BUCHAREST & MNAC Bucharest
Photos by Serioja Bocsok / MNAC Bucharest
Consisting of two major sections within the exhibition “Ioana Nemeș. All Times At Once”, the manifesto-series MONTHLY EVALUATIONS was gradually formulated by the artist between [2003-] 2005 – 2010 [-2011] out of a desire “to record, dissect, understand and describe intangibles such as life or time”. In a process of extreme honesty, the artist devised a set of parameters for evaluating and visualizing each day, developed and tested between 2003 and 2004: P [physical], E [emotional], I [intellectual], F [financial] and L [luck], all rated on a scale from -10 to +10.
At the intersection between diary, self-evaluation and meditations on broader themes, artist Ioana Nemeș MONTHLY EVALUATIONS series is structured around the relationship between language and image: subjective states are matched, in Ioana’s translations, by a numerical, mathematical and chromatic evaluation system, in an attempt to elaborate a vocabulary of emotions, inspired by the theories of Swiss psychologist Max Lüscher on emotion and colour.
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| The manifesto-series MONTHLY EVALUATIONS |
The UNTITLED series (2010-2011) showcases Ioana Nemeș's fascination with encoding and translating colors to reveal precise emotional nuances. Using ready-made Benjamin Moore paint color cards with poetic names, she created visual poems resembling haikus. These collages explore time, loss, spirituality, love, and queer fantasies through the interplay of colors and their evocative labels.
Fifty work-days selected from the vast archive of the artist Ioana Nemeș are presented on the 3rd floor of the Museum. The fragments, presented in the version most often used by the artist - the mural intervention - many exhibited for the first time, reveal the essence of her enduring ritual.
The archive of over a thousand days forms an eclectic thematic universe. The works function as a portal between fiction and reality, reflecting through concise language the tension between objective and psychological time.
Statement - KILOBASE BUCHAREST & MNAC Bucharest
Photos by Serioja Bocsok / MNAC Bucharest
