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4 Paintings
2010 Iunie 9





The first series of contemporary romanian art project Puzzle Progress we will perform in few episodesas a work in progress.
The artists who make up the project so far are Zoltan Bela, Dragos Burlacu, Amalia Dulhan, Codruţa Farcas, Cristian Farcas,
Lucian Muntean Vlad Petri Adrian Preda, Aurel Tar, Mirela Traistaru, Ioana Ursa, Dan Vezentan, Daniela Virlan, Cristi Gaspar,
Catalina Vasilescu .

The first episode is hosted by the Orange Concept Store on June 9 at 19:00.

http://www.modernism.ro/puzzle/2010/06/22/the-beginning-of-a-beautiful-friendship/

more here




Ich kenne drei Farben auf Erden/ Trei culori cunosc pe lume
2010 Aprilie 26

artists
Dragoş Burlacu / Szabolcs KissPál / István László / Ciprian Muresan / Csaba Nemes / Joanne Richardson / Zsolt Tibor / Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor

location: Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de)

25 April to 13 June, 2010

Opening Saturday, April 24, 2010 / 5 to 8 pm

curated by Ágnes Sebestyén, cultural manager and scholarship holder of the „Cultural managers from Central and Eastern Europe“ programme of the Robert Bosch Foundation
co-curated by Elke Gruhn

The title quoting the first words of the former romanian national anthem, refers to a variety of artistic positions that research the diverse forms of participation in the political areas of tension of the society. Concepts as identity, creation of symbols, power, nationalization, assimilation, exclusion are analysed on social and personal level by east and central european artists. Versatile forms of media will be at use: painting, drawing, objects, projections, animation, installations, interactive works, raw materials, project plans and documents.

The exhibition is sponsored by Robert Bosch Foundation.

http://www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de/index_e.html





Incotro 09
2010 Aprilie 1



Romanian Visual Survey 2009

The second edition of Romanian Visual Survey gathers some of the best visual works produced in 2009 in Romania and by Romanian visual artists in general. This year’s selection includes the work of 49 visual artists active in the field of photography, graphic design, illustration, painting and digital animation, among others. Although it is representative of the Romanian visual universe, the selection is not exhaustive.
 
About încotro
încotro sets out to be a benchmark, a launch pad, a source of dialogue and an interface between the Romanian and the international visual universes. încotro has two sections, Romanian Visual Survey and Projects. Romanian Visual Survey is an initiative which sets out to gather some of the best visual works produced in Romania and by Romanian visual artists in general. The Survey, which is carried out
yearly, sets out to become a lot more prominent in the future, both in Romania and abroad, and to attract an ever increasing number of participants. Besides the annual Survey section, încotro will also launch different
other projects which will challenge artists to express their vision on some of the most important problems that contemporary Romania currently faces.

încotro is a curation project by Tudor Prisăcariu.

www.incotro.org




Why the black is not white
2010 Februarie 24




9 romanian artists:
DAN BADEA // DRAGOS BURLACU // OANA COSUG // RALUCA DRANICEANU //
CRISTI GASPAR // ANCA IRINCIUC // MARIUS CRAITA MANDRA //
THEODOR MORARU // JUSTINIAN SCARLATESCU

Opening Reception Thursday 11 March 2010 from 19h - 22h.
until 28 March, 2010

open: Saturday - Sunday 13 h - 17 h.
+ on appointment



Galerie Actionfields |Vincent Verbist //
+ 32 (0)48 65 73 263
Rue Haute 323 Hoogstraat
1000 Brussels
www.actionfields.be



Society of Concerts | Bistrita
www.societateadeconcerte.org




BBC
2009 Octombrie 2

Art Museum Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca
02 October - 02 November


The exhibition presents 24 graphic works, paintings and photography of eight young artists from Bucharest, Bacau and Cluj: Sergiu Georgian Mazerschi, Dragos Burlacu, Cristi Gaspar, Theodora Nicodim, Marius Craita-Mandra, Dionis Puscuta, Justinian-Mihail Scarlatescu, Ovidiu Tarta.

The universe and various artistic techniques used, the works selected for this exhibition are significant stylistic orientations manifested in the work of new generations of Romanian artists. Exhibition of the group, formed as a creative group, it makes sense to exhibit their recent work at Cluj, artists from different artistic centers, separated by geographical distance, was insignificant in global communications, and united by faith in the same artistic ideals.




young romanian art #7
2009 Septembrie 7



On Monday, September 7, 2009, at 16.00, the seventh exhibition from the Young Romanian Art series will be opened in the New Gallery of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Venice, Italy. The exhibition is entitled 'cynicism and fear', and it brings together works by Michael Baers, Benedek Levente, Dragos Burlacu, Michele Bressan, Alexandra Croitoru / Mircea Nicolae / Stefan Tiron.


TV turned Holocaust into an advertising campaign against Hitler and the German people. As it was a medium that gained mass popularity in the USA, it also engulfed very specific ideological attitudes. Thus, it promoted the monstrous figure of the German dictator and repressed the other figure, just as terrible, of Stalin.

What was behind the Iron Curtain could not be as important, because it was no longer part of the free world. On the other side cynicism and fear became two simultaneous options for the privileged, but also for those in suffering. The two attitudes developed to their utmost extent, covering all the surfaces, all the thoughts, shattering all hope and all natural gestures possible.

Apocalyptic imaginary became a daily mental landscape. Youngsters started to despise themselves for being alive, for being citizens of one country, for having been born in a certain place on this Earth. They wished to die, or they dreamt about it, disgusted with their own self or with the environment in which they were living.

The death of the leaders came as an episode from an absurd documentary film, that could only confirm the option for the same fear and the same cynicism in face of an uncertain future. Once connected to the free world of capital, collective fears gathered under another banner – that of the imminent disaster that will inevitably destroy us all.


Young Romanian Art is Mircea Nicolae's residency project at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Venice, during which the artist functions as an organizer and a curator. This series of one-week exhibitions aims at promoting young Romanian art during the Venice Art Biennial 2009.

http://young-romanian-art.blogspot.com/




Understanding History
2009 Iulie 16

sub_Carturesti, Bucharest
Curator: Cosmin Nasui
16 July - 5 August 2009





Ceausescu, idolul gadget-vintage-glamour, contemporan

Cultul lui Ceausescu a fost creat prin controlul tuturor artelor dirijate dibaci intr-o singura directie. Asa se face ca puterea imaginii lui Ceausescu constituie o atractie speciala mai ales ca icon pop sinonim cu fortarea inceputurilor civilzatiei urbane moderne, “la bloc”. Paradoxul face ca reprezentarea oarecum obligatorie, alta data, a lui Ceausescu in toate artele, sa fie acum o alegere deliberata a creativilor contemporani ce l-au transformat in stencil si graffiti pe blocurile gri.
Dragos Burlacu il reprezinta pe Ceausescu atit in ipostaza de Conducator Suprem cat si in cea a omului atras de placeri uneori costisitoare. Cadrele acestor realitati trecute par fantastice. Compozitiile in care Ceausescu apare tragand cu arcul ori cu pusca, pasionat de sah, de vinatoare, sau de scufundari, in vizite de lucru, ori la tribuna gesticuland amplu sint inspirate din imaginile “Epocii de Aur”....






7 actual size
2009 Iunie 10




7 actual size - group exhibition 

artists :Dragos Burlacu, Raluca Ghideanu, Anca Irinciuc, Bogdan Mateias, Ciprian Paleologu, Maria Pop   
              Timaru, Justinian Scarlatescu
curator Teodor Moraru
location - Visual Arts Center - Bucharest / str. Biserica Enei Nr.7




young romanian art
2009 Mai 22

Several works from the series "Understanding History" will be included in the curatorial project of  Mircea Nicolae entitled "Young Romanian Artists". Exhibition Series will be open between 1 July -30 November 2009 at the Romanian Cultural Center in Venice, the exhibitions program  will be communicated on July 1.

The archive of  young Romanian art  in Venice

Ioan Es. Pop Ziarul Financiar 12.06.2009

With the beginning of the 53-edition of the Biennial of Art in Venice, in the New Gallery of Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research was inaugurated on Friday, June 5, the exhibition "Globuri Glass (25 houses demolished) , a young visual artist Mircea Nicolae.

The project is, in essence, a reflexive attitude on the disappearance of a "world" (low height  buildings constructed at the end of the XIX century and first half of the twentieth century  in the central area of Bucharest) and the appearance of a new (housing or business centers).
Mircea Nicolae, the winner is the first resident offered by the Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, the initiative is included in the strategy of the Romanian Cultural Institute to encourage young people in various areas of creation, by providing scholarships and resident.

The jury that selected the winning project was composed of names such as Andreas Fogarasi, Grand prize winner of "Golden Lion for best national project in the latest edition of the Art Biennale in Venice, Erwin Kessler, art critic of Romania , Fabio Cavallucci coordinator for the 2008 edition of the European Biennial of Contemporary Art "manifest" and was director of the Civic Gallery of Trento, Saverino of Simi Burgis, art critic, professor at the Academy of Arts in Venice.
During the first months of residency, Mircea Nicolae will expose the winner, and that in the last part of residents to undertake a work in progress entitled "Young Romanian Art," curatorial approach that will generate an important "Archive Art Young in Romania".
Among the artists who have responded favorably call Mircea Nicolae works to send representative to be exposed in the New Gallery of Romanian Institute of Venice during the Biennale of Art, are Alina Andrei, Michele Bressan, Benera Anca Vlad financial, Daniel Knorr, Bodeianu Bogdan, Razvan Botis, Tudor Bratu, Sebastian Big, Dragos Burlacu, Cernica Simion, Claudiu Ciobanu, Elena Ciobanu, Alexandru Ciubotariu, Claudiu Cobilanschi, Cuzina, Suzana Dan, Dumitras / Nasu / Muntean, Garbovan Bogdan, Michael Rabbit Gorski, Teo Isfan, Cezar Lazarescu, Benedek Levente, No Limits Missionary, Mircea Nicolae, Dragos Platon, Tudor Prisacariu, Lea Rasovszky, Jean-Lorin Sterian, Oana Toderici.
Residence aims both to encourage innovative ways to analyze and interpret creative theme of the current edition of the Art Biennale in Venice, which is held under the "Making Worlds", and promotion in the context of the most important event on the international scene of visual arts , a Romanian trained potential artists or affirmed after 1989.
Also intend Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice is to transform into a residential project of their own participation in the Biennial of Art and Architecture Biennale in Venice, in the section "Projects collateral.


Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research - Venice
Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica - Venezia

Palazzo Correr
Campo Santa Fosca
Cannaregio 2214 – 30121
Venezia - ITALIA







© 2009 Dragos Burlacu