Gili Mocanu
31 Mar - 27 Jun 2010
GILI MOCANU
"Each of those two moments"
31.03 – 27.06.2010
Opening: 31st of March, 19h00
Curator: Oana Tanase
MNAC presents the solo exhibition of Gili Mocanu, an exhibition that takes into account two stations of art – the studio and the museum. Together with The Papal Square Meter, a work from the collection of MNAC, two other series of paintings have been selected, as well as the artist’s sketchbooks which are on display for the first time. For Each of the Two Moments, Gili Mocanu has conceived an intervention in the museum’s space that seems to test the force of gravitation embedded in ideas and the plausibility of space drawing.
After exercising figuration and resorting to a beautiful and irreverent artifice, the artist puts to the test our tolerance for abstraction. Repetition and cyclicity, journey and end, the terrestrial and the imponderable, are constant themes of reflection for Gili Mocanu, an artist for whom sincerity and adrenaline are basic ingredients of his artistic and cultural identity. His work is infused with so much nihilism and irony that one can almost hear him saying: “Nothing compares to a good dose of self-loath”.
MNAC partner: BRD Groupe Societe Generale
Sponsors: Hotel Novotel, Murfatlar
Media partners: Igloo, Arhitectura, 24 Fun, rfi, feeder.ro, Cocor Media Channel
"Each of those two moments"
31.03 – 27.06.2010
Opening: 31st of March, 19h00
Curator: Oana Tanase
MNAC presents the solo exhibition of Gili Mocanu, an exhibition that takes into account two stations of art – the studio and the museum. Together with The Papal Square Meter, a work from the collection of MNAC, two other series of paintings have been selected, as well as the artist’s sketchbooks which are on display for the first time. For Each of the Two Moments, Gili Mocanu has conceived an intervention in the museum’s space that seems to test the force of gravitation embedded in ideas and the plausibility of space drawing.
After exercising figuration and resorting to a beautiful and irreverent artifice, the artist puts to the test our tolerance for abstraction. Repetition and cyclicity, journey and end, the terrestrial and the imponderable, are constant themes of reflection for Gili Mocanu, an artist for whom sincerity and adrenaline are basic ingredients of his artistic and cultural identity. His work is infused with so much nihilism and irony that one can almost hear him saying: “Nothing compares to a good dose of self-loath”.
MNAC partner: BRD Groupe Societe Generale
Sponsors: Hotel Novotel, Murfatlar
Media partners: Igloo, Arhitectura, 24 Fun, rfi, feeder.ro, Cocor Media Channel