[Nettime-ro] VERNISAJ RAZVAN BOAR: INANIMATE OBJECTS OBEY MY THOUGHT!

[Galeria Nicodim <info@galerianicodim.ro>]

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RAZVAN BOAR*

INANIMATE OBJECTS OBEY MY THOUGHT!

25 iunie – 25 iulie 2013

*Vernisaj 25 iunie 2013, ora 7.00 p.m*


Galeria Nicodim Bucuresti are deosebita placere de a anunta expozitia
personala a artistului Razvan Boar.


INANIMATE OBJECTS OBEY MY THOUGHT!

In noua serie de lucrari ale artistului roman Razvan Boar desenul, ca si
practica artistica este transpus, manipulat si parodiat. Desi stilul lui
Razvan Boar este incontestabil pictural, felul in care abordeaza gestul
artistic da la iveala un dialog critic cu noua maniera de reprezentare
artistica.

Compozitiile sale evidentiaza un anumit automatism, o abordare aproape
expresionist abstracta a desenului, care-i plaseaza subiectele figurative
si tematice intr-un joc dinamic al notiunilor configurarii si sublimarii.

Utilizand imagini ale iconografiei publicitare din anii ‘50, creatia sa se
confrunta cu rolul de "studiu" ca mijloc pentru atingerea unui scop final,
si mai mult decat atat, ca o conditie necesara a picturalului. Astfel linia
de demarcatie intre desen si pictura este estompata; niveland ierarhia
tehnicilor si a materialelor, el foloseste culorile cu o lejeritate a tusei
de obicei asociata carbunelui sau tusului. Chiar aceasta tensiune materiala
este cea care face ca lucrarile sa se subscrie zonei vestigiilor sau a
relicvei contemporane; liniile sale devin primitive, culorile sunt
simbolice, tiparele prind contur si totul capata un ritm vizual distinct.

Artistul se foloseste de culoare pentru a delimita si a-si contura ideile
si subiectele unificandu-si astfel planurile in mod formal.

Acesta reuseste sa il atraga pe privitor in interiorul unui labirint
conceptual in care stilul si substanta se contrazic tematic una pe
cealalta. Nu poti fi sigur daca aceste compozitii variate sunt abordate cu
intentia de a uni sau a distruge, de a asocia sau a disocia. Si tocmai
spatiul acesta inchizitorial este cel care confera lucrarilor sale o
materialitate distincta.

Razvan Boar (nascut in 1982, la Lugoj), traieste si lucreaza in Bucuresti,
Romania. Printre expozitiile sale recente se numara si Classification
Bouillabaisse (2013), Ana Cristea Gallery. In 2011 Razvan Boar a fost
castigatorul bursei Constantin Brancusi la Cité Internationale des Arts,
Paris.


*GALERIA NICODIM*
Str. Academiei, nr. 15 (Pasajul Comedia),
et 2, ap 4, Bucuresti
info@galerianicodim.ro
www.galerianicodim.ro

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*RAZVAN BOAR*

INANIMATE OBJECTS OBEY MY THOUGHT!

June 25 – July 25, 2013

*Exhibition opening: June 25, 2013, 7.00 pm*


Nicodim Gallery Bucharest is glad to announce the personal exhibition of
the artist Razvan Boar.

INANIMATE OBJECTS OBEY MY THOUGHT!

The perfunctory status of drawing is transposed, manipulated, and parodied
in the new body of work by Romanian artist Razvan Boar. Though Boar’s
practice is distinctly painterly his approach to gesture reveals a critical
engagement with the contemporary currency of ‘the hand’. A certain
automatism, a nearly Ab-Ex approach to mark making, is employed throughout
Boar’s compositions, levying their figurative and topical subject matter
into a dynamic interplay between notions of configuration and sublimation.

Boar approaches gesture with a furtive hand. Utilizing the figurative
skeletons of 1950’s advertising iconography, his work confronts the role of
‘the study’ as means to an end and further, as painterly prerequisite.
Blurred is the line between drawing and painting in Boar’s iconoscapes;
leveling media hierarchy, he uses oil paint with a lightness of hand
usually associated with graphite or ink. It is through this material
tension that the work subsumes within itself into the arena of contemporary
vestige or relic; lines become primitive, color symbolic, patterns emerge
and a distinct visual rhythm is introduced. Boar uses color specifically to
demarcate and outline his renderings, democratizing his subject matter and
formally unifying his planes.

The crude immediacy of Boar’s technique yet deft skills as a draftsman
summon the viewer into a conceptual quagmire where style and substance
thematically contradict one another. One is unsure as to whether or not the
aggregate compositions of Boar’s pictorial planes are approached with an
intention that seeks to coalesce or destroy, associate or disassociate. It
is within this inquisitional space that Boar’s paintings find a distinct
objecthood, one which expands beyond the realm of painting into something
more conjectural.

Razvan Boar (b.1982, Lugoj) lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. Recent
exhibitions include, Classification Bouillabaisse (2013), Ana Cristea
Gallery. In 2011 Boar was the recipient of the Constantin Brancusi
fellowship at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.

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GALERIA NICODIM*
Str. Academiei, nr. 15 (Pasajul Comedia),
et 2, ap 4, Bucuresti
info@galerianicodim.ro
www.galerianicodim.ro
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