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Drosophila
Catalogue 32 Romanian Painters, H’Art Gallery, Bucharest, December 2005, p. 203
I think Drosophila was born at the countryside. Dragos Burlacu is even more explicit – it was born in Nasaud. Why precisely this little insignificant insect? Because it’s a little drink-addicted fly, because it’s a guinea pig fly, because the female is bigger than the male and less spectacular chromatically, because it lives less when it’s hot and more when it’s cold, because females mate at 12 hours after they hatch, because they are very careful with the male’s seed and they store it, because they can become virgin again in a quasi-unbelievable way, because they are 61% similar to humans, because two thirds of their brain is destined to visual processing and because on the microscope they look like Dragos Burlacu’s artistic steps are regressive. Back to the totem, this time without taboos. Here is how you can re-find a beginning formula around which to rebuild myths and narrations. Dragos Burlacu decided to produce artistic ad-hoc mythologies starting from Drosophila – the drink-addicted little fly. Will you enter the game?
Dan Popescu
Catalogue 32 Romanian Painters, H’Art Gallery, Bucharest, December 2005, p. 203
I think Drosophila was born at the countryside. Dragos Burlacu is even more explicit – it was born in Nasaud. Why precisely this little insignificant insect? Because it’s a little drink-addicted fly, because it’s a guinea pig fly, because the female is bigger than the male and less spectacular chromatically, because it lives less when it’s hot and more when it’s cold, because females mate at 12 hours after they hatch, because they are very careful with the male’s seed and they store it, because they can become virgin again in a quasi-unbelievable way, because they are 61% similar to humans, because two thirds of their brain is destined to visual processing and because on the microscope they look like Dragos Burlacu’s artistic steps are regressive. Back to the totem, this time without taboos. Here is how you can re-find a beginning formula around which to rebuild myths and narrations. Dragos Burlacu decided to produce artistic ad-hoc mythologies starting from Drosophila – the drink-addicted little fly. Will you enter the game?
Dan Popescu
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