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Galateea Contemporary Art presents ”notes for a Landscape”, a solo exhibition of the artist Ovidiu Leuce, on view from November 19 to December 13, 2024. The opening event took place on Tuesday, November 19, at 7:00 PM, at Galateea Contemporary Art, located at Calea Victoriei 132, Bucharest. The inaugural address was delivered by the Professor and critic Ion Bogdan Lefter, with Anca Vintilă Dragu serving as the exhibition coordinator.
This exhibition showcases a collection of ceramic sculptures and five collages that encapsulate Ovidiu Leuce’s multidisciplinary approach, characterized by a seamless interplay between ceramics, painting, and drawing. The works emerge organically from one another, forming a cohesive artistic narrative. The ceramic sculptures, crafted in black clay, feature organic forms and are imbued with dark, earthy tones, evoking signs and symbols that suggest a potential interior landscape. As art critic Sorina Jecza observes, these are "forms that amalgamate kingdoms, vegetal suggestions that intersect with projections of a different order, creating the illusion of worlds plunged into the aseptic reality of the imaginary."
The exhibition’s spatial arrangement is meticulously designed to complement the gallery’s architecture. The sculptures are presented on a rigid black display structure reminiscent of an architectural model, specifically conceived for this project. This display arrangement evokes the rhythm and sequences of a musical score, drawing parallels between visual art and the temporal patterns of sound.
Notes for a Landscape invites viewers to explore the intersections of materiality, form, and imagination, offering a meditative reflection on the interplay between the organic and the constructed, the real and the imaginary.
Marius Scafaru
Ovidiu Leuce (Zalău, România, 1981) lives and works in Cluj Napoca.
He studied Ceramics at the University of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
His work is characterized by the use of collage and ceramics as a natural expression of painting in space. His artistic production is composed of paintings, ceramics and drawings that are the representation of inner landscapes that have emerged from real experiences, personal memories and literary sources.
He has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at the Pastificio Cerere Foundation in Rome (IT), MAXXI Museum in Rome (IT), Mark Rothko Art Center in Daugavpils (LT), Rosalux Gallery in Berlin (DE), Villa Medici Academy of France in Rome (IT), Divario Gallery in Rome (IT), Art Museum in Cluj Napoca (RO), Revoltella Museum in Trieste (IT), Centrul de Interes in Cluj Napoca (RO), I.C.R. Venezia (IT.) among others.
He teaches at the University of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca and from 2018 he coordinates the activity of the cultural association Friche.
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This exhibition showcases a collection of ceramic sculptures and five collages that encapsulate Ovidiu Leuce’s multidisciplinary approach, characterized by a seamless interplay between ceramics, painting, and drawing. The works emerge organically from one another, forming a cohesive artistic narrative. The ceramic sculptures, crafted in black clay, feature organic forms and are imbued with dark, earthy tones, evoking signs and symbols that suggest a potential interior landscape. As art critic Sorina Jecza observes, these are "forms that amalgamate kingdoms, vegetal suggestions that intersect with projections of a different order, creating the illusion of worlds plunged into the aseptic reality of the imaginary."
The exhibition’s spatial arrangement is meticulously designed to complement the gallery’s architecture. The sculptures are presented on a rigid black display structure reminiscent of an architectural model, specifically conceived for this project. This display arrangement evokes the rhythm and sequences of a musical score, drawing parallels between visual art and the temporal patterns of sound.
Notes for a Landscape invites viewers to explore the intersections of materiality, form, and imagination, offering a meditative reflection on the interplay between the organic and the constructed, the real and the imaginary.
Marius Scafaru
Ovidiu Leuce (Zalău, România, 1981) lives and works in Cluj Napoca.
He studied Ceramics at the University of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
His work is characterized by the use of collage and ceramics as a natural expression of painting in space. His artistic production is composed of paintings, ceramics and drawings that are the representation of inner landscapes that have emerged from real experiences, personal memories and literary sources.
He has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at the Pastificio Cerere Foundation in Rome (IT), MAXXI Museum in Rome (IT), Mark Rothko Art Center in Daugavpils (LT), Rosalux Gallery in Berlin (DE), Villa Medici Academy of France in Rome (IT), Divario Gallery in Rome (IT), Art Museum in Cluj Napoca (RO), Revoltella Museum in Trieste (IT), Centrul de Interes in Cluj Napoca (RO), I.C.R. Venezia (IT.) among others.
He teaches at the University of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca and from 2018 he coordinates the activity of the cultural association Friche.
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