The exhibition reflects a stage of my student period in Bucharest, a city in a country positioned both historically and culturally, at the confluence of both progressive and domestic, conservative influences.
Both the Skater and the other motifs present in the works play metaphorical roles that operate as a self-reflexive act, forming a varied mood (between idolization and irony) that I was marked by both personally and tangentially. The background is the inheritance of the communist reality, the modernist elemental blocks, in relation to the church the traditional conservative element.
The exhibition is characterized by the tension between abstraction-representation and mythologization-subversive critical opinion. By this I want to suggest the reflowing of traditional elements, realized through modernity. This resuscitation of the archaic continues today creating a multifaceted, varied and unpredictable cultural landscape.
