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At the Blue Biennale: 3 art installations by 3 international artists

November 02, 2023 | Cosmina Marcela OLTEAN ArtPage

Between October 1st - November 5th, 2023, the White Tower in Brasov (RO), part of the medieval fortress of Brasov, hosts 3 art installations by 3 international artists, presented within the Blue Biennale program, that will soon conclude. Therefore, the viewer can navigate from one artistic concept to another, from one artistic story to another. Let's travel in the worlds of the 3 artists.

The first is called ASKING THE SILENCE, an art installation by Thomas Fackler, curated by Alexandra Vassilikian.

The artist Thomas Fackler, from Augsburg (Germany) exhibits at the White Tower the installation "Questioning the Silence", with an interesting, interactive concept, which involves "a procession on the ground of objects of various sizes to which is added a series of bells - some suspended, others related to the respective objects with wires and that can ring".

Photos by Blue Biennale

The second is ANGELS OF ANGER, art installation by Alexandra Vassilikian (France).

The artist proposes an art installation with which visitors can interact, by entering the "forest" of paper strips and artworks that connect the ground with the ceiling. Among them, surrounded, hidden, there are paintings on paper, suspended, like tutelary spirits of this "forest". Visitors will be face to face with these presences inside the installation.

A third installation is GARDEN ME by artist Maria Gliga, curated by Victoria Taroi.

The choice of the theme is a concern for the artist. <<The idea of man's return to Nature is not realized and used as an Enlightenment ideal, but as a reminder of the self, as "preparation of the soul for nature" and, for immortality, frequently found in his creation in which the primordial elements - earth, air, water and fire – are incarnated from laboriously interwoven threads, in large spatial constructions. This predilection betrays the desire for elevation, for growth, for flight, which he treats as frequently>>, points out the curator.

"The evolution in space determined a number of morphologies freed from any constraints, but the artist maintained a constant control of the expressions, preventing the expansion of the forms from turning into an abstract game, emptied of ideational charge. In front of the works you can experience the feeling of returning and rediscovering a universe once known, but abandoned, a tender upheaval of the original types that dwell in us and connect us to the mysteries of the composition of this world". (Victoria Taroi)

The textile art of artist Maria Gliga

The theme of the current edition of the biennale is Oxymoron, "a rhetorical figure through which we aim to reflect on the issues of the contemporary world, on duality, tensions, and diversity found in the complex reality we live in or in the very kaleidoscopic nature of human beings, with eternal dilemmas and perpetual confrontations in the struggle between life and death".

BLUE BIENNALE 2023 is an event organized by the Artesentia Cultural Association, funded by Brasov County Council and co-financed by the Municipality of Brasov.

The art space: The White Tower, one of the 4 observation towers

of the medieval fortress of Brasov, very impressive with the massiveness and slenderness of its architecture

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Painted stories in „THE OXYMORON: MY METAPHOR OF IMMERSING YOURSELF IN SOMETHING”

October 14, 2023 | Cosmina Marcela OLTEAN ArtPage

Dessislava Deneva is a guest artist of the Blue Biennale 2023, taking place in Brașov between September 30 - October 21. For this event the artist proposes the project „THE OXYMORON: MY METAPHOR OF IMMERSING YOURSELF IN SOMETHING”, curated by Victoria Țăroi.

The opening of her exhibition took place in the preview of the Blue Biennale at Casa Muresenilor Museum Brasov.

Dessislava Denava, a Bulgarian painter, began studying art at the Beaux-Arts high school in Sofia, and then joined the National Academy of Arts in the Bulgarian capital, she specialized in mural painting.

„In her paintings, Dessislava treats almost organic matter. Of course, her training in mural painting has a lot to do with this. Her works seem to present a piece of a wall, a facade which is marked due to time. Dessislava Denava's works is present in several public and private institutions like Bulgaria, Argentina, Turkey, Belgium, U.S.A, Chili, Egypt, Hungary and Cyprus”, we learn from Artsper.

She was awarded at many art competitions for the best graphics and painting, and holds awards from national biennials and the Academic Mural Painting Award in Bulgaria.

Her art in her own words

This is what the artist conveys about her artistic approach:

<<I think, without being too literal, that through my work I would like to immerse myself in our time, a time of exponential development of the technical revolution. Interesting processes in artistic practices are also observed. The modern horizons of visual culture are based on dialogue and juxtaposition between divergent, often paradoxical at first glance, ideas, but ultimately united through a metaphorical language. The dynamics of modern times have also set the hectic rhythm of the author's reactions - seething, rift and transformations populate the works. We live in a perpetually changing and inconstant world woven of contradictions and untruths.

Photos by Blue Biennale

The point of view of believing in "absolute truth" (read reality) seems to be inapplicable today. New meanings are generated, based on the negation of reality and the views of the so-called "situational ethics" (A.T. Robinson). Our consciousness is constantly attacked by various sensory provocations, the situation is brought to the point of absurdity. It comes to a union of real antitheses, in the sense of a modern reflection of the world as a set of oxymorons, in the theoretical and practical field of visual arts. They are virtually directly related to modern media, without which our life is already unthinkable.

This initial paradox has provoked me to experiment, both in my ideas and in terms of their realization. I look for my truth, in situational, meaningful connections and juxtapositions, within the limits of a rich toolbox. I express my author's will, both in metaphorical figurative distinctiveness, and in the use of diverse materials such as: canvas, paper, plastic, oil and acrylic paints, pigments, pastels, etc. Here, congruence with reality is subject to my subjective observation and opinion. On the one hand, images from reality, on the other hand others, as if digitally decomposed images, are united in new, paradoxical artistic facts. Often, the figurative concepts used contain what by definition would be called oxymorons – they combine opposite ideas.

Household objects and human figures intertwine with abstract patterns, united in a single view oxymoron, as my overall creative concept. Semantic unity, is not so directly influenced by the materials themselves, but by the symbolic expression of my ideas. This multi-layered imagery and contrasting expressiveness are my reaction to the paradoxical times in which we live.>>

(Dessislava Denava)

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Márta Jakobovits / "Blue Segment"

October 05, 2023 | Cosmina Marcela OLTEAN ArtPage

A new exhibition at the Art Museum in Brașov (RO) presents the creation of ceramic artist Márta Jakobovits in the exhibition "Blue Segment", included in the program of the Blue Biennale 2023.

Bianca-Maria Bălșan, manager of the museum, Victoria Ţaroi Galbenu, curator of the exhibition, Vladimir Bulat, art historian and president of the Artessentia Cultural Association, and university associate prof. Andrei Florian, spoke at the opening.

"Her artistic activity is a proof of the fact that ceramics is still a generous form of expressing the essence of things. The ceramic pieces of Márta Jakobovits represent a meditation and a spiritual dialogue with the natural world and with the human being itself. Her works are sections of her inner diary transposed into materials", we learn from sources within the museum.

Marta Jakobovits, a professional ceramist, graduated from the Academy for Visual Arts in Cluj and received her PhD in Liberal Arts from the University of Arts and Design in Budapest. She had been inducted into the Hungarian Academy of Arts, in Budapest in 2005, gives lectures and leads workshops about ceramics and paper-art at universities as invited artist.

The artist is a member of multiple professional organizations, such as Romanian Artists Union, the Barabas Miklos Guild, the Hungarian Artists Union, the Christian Artists Europe, Rotterdam, the European Academy of Culture and the Arts.

Her works are represented in the permanent collections of art museums in Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and are part of private and public collections worldwide. She had been selected to represent the contemporary ceramic arts from Romania at the European Ceramic Context 2010 in Denmark and at the national exhibition “L`art céramique contemporaine roumaine”, 2010 in Paris. A retrospective exhibition, "Part of the Road Travelled", curated by Mălina Ionescu, was presented at the National Contemporay Art Museum in Bucharest (2021-2022). (https://www.jakobovits-marta.ro/)

The exhibition presented by the art museum is part of the INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE OF VISUAL ARTS, 3rd edition.

The theme of the edition is Oxymoron. "The oxymoron is a term taken from ancient Greek, a figure of speech that ensures the association of two incongruous, apparently incompatible terms, contradictory attributes, with surprising effects, in the same phrase, to supplement expression and character in the elaboration of powerful images. The oxymoron is a rhetorical figure through which we want to reflect together on the problems of the contemporary world, on the duality, tensions and diversity found in the complex reality in which we live or in the very kaleidoscopic nature of the human being, with eternal dilemmas and permanent confrontations in the struggle between life and death." (https://bluebiennale.com/web/)

Photo credits - Silviu Preda

At the Blue Biennale: 3 art installations by 3 international artists

Painted stories in „THE OXYMORON: MY METAPHOR OF IMMERSING YOURSELF IN SOMETHING”

Márta Jakobovits / "Blue Segment"

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