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.

The Artists Union from Romania - Iași Branch and Galeria Dana present, between October 11 and November 11, the exhibition "Retroactiv" - signed by artist Ion ANGHEL. The project is curated by Smaranda Bostan and the art critic Dr. Maria Bilasevschi.

Ion Anghel is a visual artist, curator and lecturer at the Department of Painting at the University of Arts in Bucharest. A member of the UAP, within which he holds the position of President of Honor, Discipline and Arbitration Commission, Ion Anghel has been awarded with numerous prizes, being, at the same time, the author of important exhibitions held at museums and galleries throughout Romania.

"In the interstice of space-time, Ion Anghel's artistic approach within Retroactiv project does not propose a visual formula under the warmth of which understanding develops, hence the viewer's self-satisfaction, but insinuates itself into everyone's capacity for active decoding and reactive vigilance. Installation, object, sculpture, assemblage, painting, each work transcends its own personal history in the face of learned history through re-signification and contextualization. The extraordinary character of the "ordinary" that exists in found objects, saved from their own loss under the curtain of everyday indifference, outlines the often unseen substratum of the feeling you have, upon first contact, with the artist's objects, assemblages and collages.

Finding the thematic becomes secondary, in fact finding a narrative thread or an explicit statement is not justified, the viewer being invited to go beyond the immediate meaning of the fragment towards the surprise, even partial allusion. Of course, viewed without understanding the playful-ironic dimension, translated with a bittersweet feeling that remains fixed behind the retina, the intellectual-emotional resonance would be diluted towards a formalist dialogue with a enigmatic intimacy. By reassembling the elements and materials that constitute individual allegories, the creation process intuited in the final form seems similar to that of an alchemist. In fact, the re-evaluation of the object's status, which results from the artist's relationship with it, endowing it with a new destiny that erases the past and mirrors the future is, in the whole exhibition, a re-examination, an aesthetic and conceptual re-evaluation of the paradigms of art which become a metaphor for life itself. 

Precisely for this reason, disillusionment, derision, the volatility of cultural or spiritual value systems, the lessons of history, the lessons of art (the pseudo-idyllic landscape in the portrait), the lesson about human being, become through two and three dimensions a journey towards the personal archeology of artist Ion Anghel", we learn from art critic Maria Bilashevschi.