Biju Gallery

“Soft Science of a Retinal Jumble” Artist: Mircea But Curator: Norbert Filep Location: Biju Gallery Opening: Thursday, June 11, 7PM “The pointillist structure constitutes a latent logic of the image. The mosaic-like nature operates through a resolution marked by the totality of points distributed across a delimited surface, without definitively fixing the image’s level of clarity. In Mircea But’s recent works, resolution becomes an inverted process — a form of pixelation of immediate nature through brushstrokes, where information is simultaneously articulated and displaced. In contrast to the photographic source, the constructed painting operates through gaps, with spaces defined by the rhythms of brushwork, suggesting a subtle affinity with the arabesque logic of mosaic tesserae. The pictorial material relinquishes the possibility of virtuosity in favor of a process involving attention and contemplation extending into the most intimate territory of the chosen subject. A dilation of time becomes the balance of the pictorial act. The brush, subordinated to the analytical gaze of the eye, fragments information into irregular geometric flickers, each with its own chromatic complexity, placing perception within a fluctuating field between order and disorientation.” (excerpt from the curatorial text by Norbert Filep)