Victor Ciato
25 Feb - 16 Apr 2011
VICTOR CIATO
Momentul 0
25 February – 16 April 2011
We are pleased to present the solo exhibition of the Romanian artist Victor Ciato, the first one in a series of exhibitions dealing with the works of the artist to be presented by our gallery in the next years. This first body of work consists in the watercolors painted between 1966 and 1968.
After finishing his studies at the Fine Arts Institute ‘Ion Andreescu‘ in Cluj in 1964, Victor Ciato's ‘Moment 0‘ represented a real turning point in his artistic practice. In this way he wanted to free himself from the academic norms and the "ballast" of prolet-cultist painting and reinvent - in a real modernist manner - creating his own norms. In this way he achieved the series of abstract watercolors (1966 - 1968), works that were not meant to represent anything in particular.
They are puristic abstractions, colored in a refined manner; nowadays, their artistic value is doubled by the importance of the autoformative (self-formative) exercise, performed in those circumstances. Related to the art of that time, the search into the problematic field of the non-figurative can be perceived as a radical gesture of re-definition.
Victor Ciato, born 1938, lives and works in Cluj.
Momentul 0
25 February – 16 April 2011
We are pleased to present the solo exhibition of the Romanian artist Victor Ciato, the first one in a series of exhibitions dealing with the works of the artist to be presented by our gallery in the next years. This first body of work consists in the watercolors painted between 1966 and 1968.
After finishing his studies at the Fine Arts Institute ‘Ion Andreescu‘ in Cluj in 1964, Victor Ciato's ‘Moment 0‘ represented a real turning point in his artistic practice. In this way he wanted to free himself from the academic norms and the "ballast" of prolet-cultist painting and reinvent - in a real modernist manner - creating his own norms. In this way he achieved the series of abstract watercolors (1966 - 1968), works that were not meant to represent anything in particular.
They are puristic abstractions, colored in a refined manner; nowadays, their artistic value is doubled by the importance of the autoformative (self-formative) exercise, performed in those circumstances. Related to the art of that time, the search into the problematic field of the non-figurative can be perceived as a radical gesture of re-definition.
Victor Ciato, born 1938, lives and works in Cluj.