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Catinca Malaimare & Ovidiu Toader   ARTISSIMA Red Hall, Booth 13  November 2: VIP Preview November 3 - 5, 2023 OVAL Lingotto Fiere via Giacomo Mattè Trucco, 70 Torino  inquiries please contact: catinca@catincatabacaru.com or raphael@catincatabacaru.com   GALERIA CATINCA TABACARU Strada Mexic 1, Bucharest +40 (0) 722 430 430 #galeriacatincatabacaru#fineartmagazine#fienarttorinofun

GALERIA CATINCA TABACARU, OVIDIU TOADER, PENING RECEPTION: WED. APR. 26, 2023 | 6-9 PM

View this Newsletter in your browser Ovidiu Toader, Princess Mononoke, 2023, 130 x 70  x 30 cm, stainless steel & textile paint OVIDIU TOADER "In Another Life I was a Stone" CURATED BY DARIA NEDELCU OPENING RECEPTION:  WED. APR. 26, 2023 | 6-9 PM   GALERIA CATINCA TABACARU ISAF: Calea Giulesti 14, 3rd floor |  Bucharest EN Catinca Tabacaru Gallery is thrilled to present Romanian artist Ovidiu Toader's first solo exhibition with the Gallery, In Another Life I was a Stone, curated by Daria Nedelcu.   Ovidiu Toader's interest in heterotopias dominates the scene of In Another Life I was a Stone. A sterile environment calls to mind the futuristic laboratory where technology intersects magical thinking. Plantoid entities, made of blown metal forms are frozen in mid-motion as they study the remains of an indefinite past staged on a human shaped glass worktable. They are witnesses to an event suspended in time, looking down at a collection of stones which serve as subject of analysis and decoding. The installation works as a diorama, enclosing a situation where ambiguity persists and a viewer's body is forced into and uneasy relationship with the objects and actions around him or her. Toader aims to reflect critically and creatively on a problematic present that can be read using a collective key...   Ovidiu Toader (b. 1991, Romania) is interested in collective memory, exploring space and time using personal or historical recollection. RO Galeria Catinca Tabacaru este încântată să prezinte prima expoziție personală a artistului român Ovidiu Toader în cadrul galeriei, In Another Life I was a Stone, curatoriat de Daria Nedelcu. Interesul lui Ovidiu Toader pentru heterotopii domină scena din In Another Life I was a Stone. Un mediu steril amintește de laboratorul futurist unde tehnologia intersectează gândirea magică. Entități plantoide, realizate din forme de metal suflate, par a fi înghețate în plină mișcare, în timp ce studiază rămășițele unui trecut nedefinit, pus în scenă pe o masă de lucru umanoidă din sticlă. Acestea sunt martorele unui eveniment suspendat în timp, privind în jos la o colecție de pietre care servesc drept subiect de analiză și decodificare. Instalația funcționează ca o dioramă, încadrând o situație în care ambiguitatea persistă, iar corpul privitorului este plasat într-o relație inconfortabilă cu obiectele și acțiunile din jurul său. Toader își propune să reflecteze critic și creativ în legătură cu un prezent problematic care poate fi citit în cheie colectivă…   Ovidiu Toader (n. 1991, România) este interesat de memoria colectivă, explorând spațiul și timpul folosindu-se de amintiri personale sau istorice. GALERIA CATINCA TABACARU Calea Giulești 14, etaj 3, Bucharest +40 (0) 722 430 430 #galeriacatincarabacaru#fineatfun#fineartstonefun

Galeria Catinca Tabacaru Calea Giulești 14, etaj 3, Bucharest, October 13, 2022

Kateryna Lysovenko, 8 plots possible in the interpeace and interwar time; and the dove of peace with the the catastrophic eyes. On the problems of description and periodisation., 2022, acrylic on canvas 90 x 90 cm  Something for Everyone by Kateryna Lysovenko   Opening Reception: October 13, 2022 | 6-10pm  with afterparty by Dan Basu   Galeria Catinca Tabacaru  Calea Giulești 14, etaj 3, Bucharest Catinca Tabacaru Gallery is pleased to present Something for Everyone, a solo exhibition of new works by Ukrainian artist Kateryna Lysovenko. This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The opening will take place on October 13, 2022, 6-10PM, and will be followed by an afterparty with Dan Basu on the occasion of DoiJoi. Both people who brought the war closer and those who tried to stop it said they did not want war. The sound of many voices merged into a chorus. There was also singing about sacrifices necessary to avert the war, and later about sacrifices necessary for the war to end. Like in ancient tragedies, everyone wanted what was best, but the very way the action was staged made the tragedy inevitable. Like in ancient tragedies, a sacrifice must happen. At school, I was taught that history follows a linear course, that we leave the horrors of the past further and further behind us. Later, I realized that looking at history and commemorative practices  as a grave for horrors which stayed in the past prevents us from seeing the evil of our present and calling it by its real name: evil. The chorus cannot fully reveal the tragedy happening today; at best, the tragedy gets recognized as such long after the horror. Thus, memorial practices are akin to a certain kind of performance: it is given by actors who believe in what they are performing, but takes place in the void formed by the absence of those who are long gone and leaves people separated from the world by evil in the void of today. I think about the semicircular amphitheater which embraces you, makes you look, makes you forget there is an exit behind you, and about the altar, which always plays the main role. The words of the chorus help to forget the war, to start the war, to conceal its approach. The words are also to blame. Nothing is truly left behind: we live either in an interwar or in an inter-peace time - Kateryna Lysovenko Kateryna Lysovenko is an artist who before the beginning of the 2022 war with Russia was living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is currently a guest student in the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna. Her monumental works engage in the relationship between ideology and painting. Through a study on how images of victims are produced in politics and art throughout the ages, Lysovenko explores how painting can be an instrumental language for liberation. Something for Everyone is part of the the October Edition of DoiJoi, the collaborative initiative by Bucharest's contemporary art galleries, institutions and alternative spaces. In support of its bourgeoning art scene, on the second Thursday of each month, galleries offer extended visiting hours 18.00 - 22.00, with multiple Happenings taking place across the City. #DOIJOI

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Exhibitions at the GALERIA CATINCA TABACARU

XAVIER ROBLES DE MEDINA @ KÜNSTLERHAUS BREMEN    Xavier Robles de Medina, Gorillas in the Mountains of Southern Nigeria: World’s rarest great ape pictured with babies, BBCNews, 9 July 2020, 2022, Acrylic on wood, 114 × 200 cm Installation at Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany. The Palliative Turn Curated by Nadja Quante in close collaboration with Kasia Fudakowski and Olav Westphalen  9 July – 3 October 2022 Am Deich 68/69, D–28199 Bremen, Germany   ARTISTS: Carla Åhlander, Louise Ashcroft, Simon Blanck, Christoph Draeger, Kasia Fudakowski, Anna Gohmert, Annemarie Goldschmidt, Teal Griffin, Harry Haddon, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Hjertström-Lappalainen, Per Hüttner, Nina Katchadourian, Alex Kwartler, Karin Kytökangas, Keith Larson, Mathias Lempart, Dafna Maimon, Marit Neeb, Laura Pientka, Sascia Reibel, John-Luke Roberts, Xavier Robles de Medina, Lydia Röder, Ruth Rubers, Maxwell Stephens, Anna M. Szaflarski, Nala Tessloff, Jana Thiel, Olav Westphalen, Gernot Wieland   The Palliative Turn is a project that spans across an exhibition, a program of events and a magazine that will be launched at the finissage. The project brings together contributions from artists, designers, a kinesiologist, a philosopher, a comedian, a grief and death counsellor, and a climate scientist, who have entered into an exchange within the framework of the Association for the Palliative Turn (APT). Founded in 2020, APT is an open-ended collaboration dedicated to discussing and promoting a palliative approach to, and in the arts. With an experimental, speculative and humorous approach, APT applies the concepts and approaches of palliative care to the current crises of civilization, viewing the period before systemic collapse as a time of insight, growth, and profound joy in all that is left. APT proposes no solutions, but an acceptance of the finitude of life and the limits of our remaining possibilities.   more details. CHIOMA EBINAMA @ NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY   Chioma Ebinama, March of mothers, 2022 (detail) watercolour and coffee on handmade paper, 100 x 70 cm Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary OPENING: September 24, 2022 Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB, UK   ARTISTS: Hamed Abdalla, Lee Bontecou, Sofia Borges, Brassaï, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Steven Claydon, Matt Copson, Juan Downey, Chioma Ebinama, Mary Beth Edelson, Laura Emsley, Barry Flanagan, Ilana Halperin, Frank Heath, Ed Herring, Michael Ho, Hans Hollein, Peter Hujar, Athanasius Kircher, Alison Knowles, Antti Lovag, Goshka Macuga, René Magritte, Gordon Matta-Clark, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Santu Mofokeng, Henry Moore, Nadar, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Pauline Oliveros, Lydia Ourahmane, Gordon Parks, Flora Parrott, Walter Pichler, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio, Liv Preston, Ben Rivers, Robert Smithson, Michelle Stuart, N.H. Stubbing, Caragh Thuring, Kaari Upson, Jeff Wall, Aubrey Williams, Joseph Wright of Derby   Nottingham Contemporary presents Hollow Earth: Art, Caves and The Subterranean Imaginary, a major thematic exhibition which brings together a wide range of responses to the image and idea of the cave. It includes painting, photography, sculpture, sound, installation and video, as well as archives and architectural models, stretching from 1960 to today, alongside works from the 18th and 19th centuries. Beneath Nottingham are over 800 caves, hand-carved into the sandstone bedrock. For centuries, they have played host to dwellings, mines, cellars and tanneries. Inspired by this subterranean city, Hollow Earth brings together 150 works by more than 50 artists to explore questions of thresholds, darkness and prehistory.   more details.   CATINCA MALAIMARE @ KUNSTHAUS NRW   Catinca Malaimare, Emergency Ex, 2022, Performance, 17 mins. Photo: Rocio Chacon Very Contemporary Performance-Festival cross-border IKOB presents Catinca Malaimare: Emergency Ex OPENING: September 24, 2022 Kunsthaus NRW, Abteigarten 6, 52076 Aachen, Germany   EUREGIO Very Contemporary 2022 network for the first time ever organises a joint art festival bringing together institutions from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands to showcase selected performance works at the Kunsthaus NRW in Aachen-Kornelimünster. The participating institutions are Greylight Projects (Heerlen NL), IKOB (Eupen BE), Jester (Genk BE), Kunsthaus NRW (Aachen DE), Leopold-Hoesch-Museum (Düren DE), NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (Aachen DE). IKOB presents the performance Emergency Ex (2022) by Catinca Malaimare: an intimate encounter between human bodies and machines. In a choreography of movement, sound and light, human and non-human actors become equal collaborators in creating a sensuous and otherworldly environment. Suggesting not just a technical, but an affective codependency between us and our screens, Emergency Ex conjures a not-so-distant future where face and interface have become indistinguishable. more details.

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