Vernissage
Melancholia of Living in the Afternoon of Time
With Codruța Cernea, Roberta Curcă, Dragoș Bădiță & Andrei Nuțu
With the thoughtful care and guidance of Norbert Filep
Melancholia of Living in the Afternoon of Time
Featuring: Codruța Cernea, Roberta Curcă, Dragoș Bădiță, Andrei Nuțu
With the thoughtful care and guidance of Norbert Filep
Sector 1 Gallery is pleased to announce the group exhibition Melancholia of Living in the Afternoon of Time, on view from May 8 to June 21, 2025. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, May 8, 2025, from 6:00 PM, in the presence of the artists.
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CC: I revisited Seasons. It feels like a bridge between the past and the present/future. There are references to the history of painting, filtered through this new tool with its glitches. It captures the moment well — the moment we’re living through now. I was wondering why you started with Winter? Was there a specific reason?
DB: Maybe because that's how the year begins in our culture. It allowed for the richest transitions — from thaw and the blossoming of life at the start, to stillness and void at the end. It felt like the most natural choice. Winter is closest, symbolically, to nothingness, so it made sense to place it at both ends.
(July 4, 2024)
The exhibition starts from the premise that there are shared elements in the way we interpret the world and the present moment, and that this is reflected in our works — resulting in a natural synergy between them. We had several meetings in each other's studios, where we presented our works, discussed them, and looked for points of intersection. The title, which we all agreed upon, is inspired by George Williamson’s phrase “melancholy of living in the afternoon of time,” which we came across in Damien Rudd’s book Sad Topographies.
(October 2024)
