Atelier Nicolae Comănescu

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Str. Biserica Amzei nr.7-9, Corp C, sc. B, Studio nr.16, etaj 1

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Open Studio

Looking at the big picture from the inside

With Nicolae Comănescu

Curated by Elena Est

Artist Nicolae Comănescu, in collaboration with the Artevezi association, invites the public to enter a meta-room created in the form of a performative installation within his studio in Amzei. During the DOI JOI event on 13 March, the public is invited to enter the artist's domestic space—filled with pieces of furniture from his household inventory and clothes from friends. The installation (600 x 300 x 400 cm) thus becomes a legitimate refuge, crystallized around an obsessive need for habitation on the part of the artist: “At first glance, it transforms into dense volumes of color, inflexible indicators of meaning, movement, and rotation. The clothes lose their initial functionality, textile properties, structure, and density. They alter their isolation and lacework and transform into a heavier plastic magma that flows in new directions.” — Nicolae Comănescu / Artis

Tell us about Atelier Nicolae Comănescu.

Known to the art world as the Atelierele din Amzei - the C Building is part of the famous I.C. Brătianu Cultural Settlements architectural ensemble, which was started by I.C. Brătianu in 1908 and realized by the architect Petre Antonescu in neo-Romanesque style. After 1989, Building C was under the administration of the Union of Fine Artists through the Bucharest Municipal Museum. Since 2012, the prolific artist Nicolae Comănescu (b.1968, Pitești), also nicknamed *Starul din Berceni, one of the founding members of the post-decembrist art group Rostopasca (1997-2001), has been working in the studio no. 16 on the first floor.

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The artist engages in retinal activities in his own studio; he creates new permutations, transforms objects, adds found items, staples clothes over clothes, draws line sketches over them, and creates new spaces in which he isolates himself and escapes.