Atelier Comănescu

The artist Nicolae Comănescu, in collaboration with Elena Est, invites you to step into a meta-room he has created as a performative installation in his studio. Entitled Looking at the Big Picture from the Inside / the installation (600 x 300 x 400 cm), made from various accumulations of materials, fragments of furniture and clothes received from friends, subverts the famous Think outside the box to look at things from the inside: “The works in the ensemble thus become visual matrices / windows through which one can look, or the door through which one can enter or exit, revisiting one of the artist's most recurring themes: Escape.” — Elena Est / Curator During the DOI JOI event on October 9th, 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 / Artist