Visuality and Materiality. Three configurations of images

Curator Ruxandra Demetrescu affirms that: ”What unites the three artists seems to be the recourse to a deep cultural layer that revisits the European cultural heritage, from the evocation of a fantastic Levant, a thematic constant in the master's work, to classical mythology reconverted in the sculptor's universe, to the fragmented diary in the photographer's images.”

Sorin Ilfoveanu (b. 1946, Campulung-Muscel) is one of Romania's most important contemporary artists. He graduated in 1970 from the class of Corneliu Baba and went on to become, in turn, head of the Department of Painting, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Rector of the National University of Arts in Bucharest. His creation, in drawing and painting, is recognizable by the intensely personal style that explores existential themes, symbolically-cripted in his already iconic characters, with Byzantine visual sources and a subtle primitive stylistic horizon. His most notable international exhibitions include the Venice Biennale in 1987, along with presentations in Norway, Holland, France, Austria, Italy, Germany, Greece, Chile, Chile, South Korea and Japan. His work can be found in major museums and private collections around the world, from Paris to Tokyo, from Bucharest to Oslo and Perugia. 

Adrian Ilfoveanu (b. 1971, Pitesti) is known for his sculptures in various media - wood, marble, bronze or synthetic resins, depicting anthropomorphic or zoomorphic subjects and figures essentialized. A graduate of the National University of Arts in Bucharest, in 2003 he won the National Project Competition for the re-design of the plinth of the former Lenin's statue "Monument to the Freedom of the Word", and since 2007 he has been creating the trophy for the GOPO Awards, the most notable awards of the Romanian film industry. His work has been exhibited in the USA, Norway, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Germany, Denmark, India, Finland and Germany.

Nicu Ilfoveanu (b. 1975, Pitesti) works in the field of photographic and film imagery, as well as art publications, and is credited with a particular position within contemporary Romanian photography. He graduated from the National University of Arts in Bucharest, where he currently teaches a discipline related to photography. His works are characterized by the unexpected and unpredictable interplay between the personal and the documentary, the sublime and the trivial, the obvious and the hidden. His recent work includes exhibitions in Spain, France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, Italy, Serbia, Norway, Austria, Japan and China.