Performance
Looking At The Big Picture From The Inside
With Nicolae Comănescu
Curated by Elena Est, in collaboration with Artevezi
Artist Nicolae Comănescu, in collaboration with Artevezi association, invites the public to enter a new art institution, a meta-cavern created by the artist in the form of a performative installation inside his studio in Amzei. Entitled Looking at the Big Picture from the Inside / Privind la grande pictură din interior - the installation (600 x 300 x 400 cm) made of various accumulations of materials, fragments of furniture and clothes received from close friends and family - highlights a new inside/outside paradigm shift, overturning the famous Think outside the box to look at things from the inside.
As part of the DOI JOI event, a performative action will take place, in which the artist will reveal to the audience 'layerers of information' from the process of creating the installation. The interventions take up a recurring theme in the artist's practice: the abstraction of erotic scenes or street demonstrations, with final seminal tufts on the surface of the works. The action will be followed by a discussion between artist and curator about the deeper meanings of the installation, revisiting an important theme in Nicolae Comănescu's artistic philosophy: escape.
"Born in 1968, in a system refractory to change, Comănescu continually experiences the chronic obsession of escape; so strong and so intense that he ends up creating, in the absence of a context of constraints, his own prison, from which he maneuvers his escape." - curatorial text by Elena Est
