IOANA ANTONIU
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IOANA ANTONIU MIRAJ MIRAGE
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Mitologie personală
Era iarnă pe Aleea Snagov din cartierul Gheorgheni, orașul Cluj, iar eu copil fiind, încercam să îmi surprind cele
mai nostime fețe reflectate și deformate în luciul multicolor al globurilor din bradul de Crăciun. Acuma e o iarnă tărzie pe strada Ioan Budai Deleanu, cartierul Andrei Mureșanu, iar eu mă regăsesc după ani tot în orașul meu natal și poate nu întâmplător în casa moștenită de la bunicii mei, suprapunând imagini peste imagini, amintiri legate de un traseu atât de calm, liniștit și firesc al vieții mele.
Toate întâmplările miraculoase din viața mea s-au petrecut în orașul Cluj, nașterea, căsătoria, școala și studenția,
trecutul și viitorul se suprapun și se reduc la o clipă pe care de cele mai multe ori încerc să o redau în lucrările mele sub titlul generic de Ireversibil, Miraj, Sub stele....*
Pictura, artele în general, propun o interpretare expresivă a lumii şi a vieţii sociale, eliberând-o din solitudinea
atelierului, creeând o realitate nouă, cu multiple semnificaţii interpretative. Succesiv, redescoperim prin intermediul operei de artă, semnificaţii şi valori estetice care ne impun să o reevaluăm şi să o reconsiderăm prin prisma contemporanităţii.
Vedem astăzi altfel? Suntem mai eficienţi, mai bine dotaţi din punct de vedere al aparatului de analiză teoretic şi
conceptual? O raportăm mai complex la ceea ce ştim, din punct de vedere al istoriei, ştiinţelor sociale şi aplicate? În orice caz, abordarea multidisciplinară a învățământului artistic și a operei de artă este un fapt ce aparţine modernităţii. Accesul calitativ şi cantitativ este mai complex ca niciodată, fiind chiar ameninţaţi de perspectiva de a ne rătăci în semnificaţiile şi suita de relaţii pe care o propune interpretarea teoriilor moderne ale artei.
Revin din voiajul general și teoretizant la ceea ce presupune demersul meu artistic personal, la încercarea de a
dezvolta un concept plastic original, care să valorifice reprezentări ale figurii umane sau detalii de obiecte personale, folosind elemente de contrast rezultate din juxtapunerea de valori formale clasice și contemporane. O preocupare constantă a fost surprinderea inefabilului pictural dar și poetic al naturii.
Am cumpărat un trandafir, acuma aștept să înflorească, e splendid și parfumat, nu simt nevoia să îl pictez acum,
aștept să se ofilească puțin ca să pot să îi dau o nouă viață în lucrarea numită Înflorire.... Ioana Antoniu, 2016 4
Personal Mythology
It was winter on Snagov Alley, in the Gheorgheni neighbourhood, Cluj, and I, as a child, was trying to capture the
funniest faces as they were reflected and deformed by the colourful and shiny globes hanging from the Christmas tree. Now it is late winter on Ioan Budai Deleanu Street, and years later I find myself still living in my home town, and perhaps not by chance, in the house that I inherited from my grandparents, overlapping images upon images, memories connected to the calm, natural path that my life has taken.
All the miraculous events from my life have taken place in Cluj; my birth, marriage, school and college years, the
past and the future blend together and are reduced to a moment that I try to create in my works, most of the time, under the generic title of “Irreversible”, “Mirage”, “Under the Stars”...*
Painting, art in general, suggests an expressive interpretation of the world and of social life, releasing it from the
solitude of the studio, creating a new reality, with multiple creative meanings. Successively, we rediscover, through the work of art, meanings and aesthetic values that make us reevaluate and reconsider it through the prism of contemporaneity.
Do we see differently today? Are we more efficient, better equipped from a theoretical, analytic and conceptual
point of view? Are we connecting things more complexly to what we know, regarding history, social and applied sciences? Regardless, the multidisciplinary approach of the artistic education and the work of art is a fact that belongs to modernity. Our access, both in quality as well as quantity, is more complex than ever, feeling even threatened by the prospect of getting lost in the meanings and the multitude of relations suggested by the modern theories of art.
Returning from the theoretical voyage back to what my personal artistic approach involves, to my attempt of
developing an original concept that captures representations of the human form, details of personal objects, using elements of contrast resulting from the joining of classical and contemporary formal values. A constant concern has been the capture of the ineffable in nature, both pictural and poetic.
I have bought a rose, and now I am waiting for it to blossom; it is splendid and fragrant, I do not feel the urge to
paint it now, I am waiting for it to wither slightly, so that I may give it a new life, in the painting called “Blossoming”.... Ioana Antoniu, 2016 5
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OBSCURUM PER OBSCURIUS IGNOTIUM PER IGNOTIUS Să te îndrepți spre cele tainice și necunoscute prin ceea ce este încă și mai tainic și necunoscut
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Sfârșitul jocului / The End of the Game
Mixed media on canvas, 100 x 100 cm., 2016
Piangete voi?
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 90 cm., 2016
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Sub vânt / Under the Wind
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 90 x 100 cm., 2016
Rămășițele zilei / The Remains of the Day
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 100 cm., 2016
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Prospețime / Freshness
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 100 cm., 2016
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ﾃ始tr-alte seri / Other Nights
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x100 cm., 2015
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Vălul rupt / The Broken Veil
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x100 cm., 2016
Tainice tangențe / Secret Tangents
Oil and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 80 cm., 2016
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Poveste de iarnă / Winter Story
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 70 cm., 2014
Răcoare / Chill-up
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 80 cm., 2015
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Cascada Vălul Miresei / The Bride’s Shroud Waterfall
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 70 cm., 2015
Te văd! / I see You! 18
Oil and embroidery on canvas, 70 x 100 cm., 2015
Înserare / Nightfall
Oil and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 150 cm., 2015
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Intimitatea naturii I / Nature’s Intimacy I
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 80 cm., 2015
Intimitatea naturii II / Nature’s Intimacy II
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 70 cm., 2015
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Nocturne
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 70 cm., 2015
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Cele tainice și necunoscute / The Mysterious and Unknown Mixed media on canvas, 100 x 80 cm., 2016
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Viva giardini
Mixed media and embroidery, 100 x 70 cm., 2015
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Obiect transparent / Transparent object
Oil and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 100 cm., 2016
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Ispitit de g창ndul... / Tempted by the Thought...
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 100 cm., 2015
Iarna dincolo de pleoape / Winter Beyond Closed Eyelids Mixed media on canvas, 100 x 100 cm., 2015
Cascadă / Waterfall 28
Mixed media on canvas, 100 x 70 cm., 2014
Inflorire / Blossoming
Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm., 2014
Creanga de aur 1 / The Golden Branch
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 40 x 50 cm., 2015
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Dimineață de ianuarie / Jannuary Morning
Oil and embroidery on canvas, 70 x 100 cm., 2014
Sub zăpadă / Under the Snow
Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm., 2014
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In vivo
Oil and embroidery on canvas, 120 x 80 cm., 2014
Sub ceață / Beneath the Fog
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 100 cm., 2014
Sub ceață / Beneath the Fog
Oil and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 80 cm., 2014
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In vivo
Oil and embroidery on canvas, 120 x 80 cm., 2014
Viața încremenită / Stunned Life Oil on canvas, 140 x 80 cm., 2015
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Miraj / Mirage
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 110 cm., 2014
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Miraj / Mirage
Oil and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 140 cm., 2014
Dincolo de pleoape / Beyond the Eyelids
Oil and embroidery on canvas, 140 x 80 cm., 2016
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Azi / Today
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 70 x 100 cm., 2015
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Saskia
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 100 cm., 2015
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Floare / Flower
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 80 x 60 cm., 2014
Tortul miresei /Bride’s Cake
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 100 x 70 cm., 2015
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Cascadă / Waterfall
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 50 x 40 cm., 2015
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Cascadă / Waterfall
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 40 x 50 cm., 2014
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O amintire / A Memory
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 30 x 60 cm., 2014
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Creanga de aur 2 / The Golden Branch 2
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 50 x 60 cm., 2014
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Muntele vrﾄニit / The Magic Mountain
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 80 x 100 cm., 2015
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Creanga de aur 4 / The Golden Branch
Mixed media and embroidery on canvas, 30 x 40 cm., 2015
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IOANA ANTONIU Painter Born in 1964 at Cluj- Napoca, Romania. 1983- 1988 studied at the Art Academy of Cluj- Napoca. Actualy Phd. Professor at the University of Art and Design of Cluj- Napoca. Member of the Romanian Union of the Visual Artists. Lives and works in Cluj- Napoca. Solo Shows 2016, Mirage, at The Cluj- Napoca Museum of Art. 2011, Holderlin, Ein Gesprach mit Bildern, Neuwerk Kunsthalle Konstanz, Germany. 2010, La Rosa di Nessuno, Galleria Spazio Mirionima, Macerata, Italy. 2008, Image, at The Cluj- Napoca Museum of Art. 2005, Paintings, at The Cluj- Napoca Museum of Art. 2002, The Garden, Radio Gallery, Cluj-Napoca. 1997, Painting Show, Documenta X, Werkgalery, Kassel, Germany. 1997, Paintings, De Boog Gallery, Ijsselstein, Holland. 1995, Paintings, Greater Gallery of the Union of the Artists, Cluj- Napoca. 1992, Paintings, Covalenco Gallery, Geldrop, Holland. 1991, Gijzenrooi Gallery, Geldrop, Holland. Group Exhibitions (a selection) 2016 The Water in the Garden, at the UAP Gallery in Bistrita, Romania. 2015 The Annual Art Show of the UAP, at The Cluj- Napoca Museum of Art. The Art in The Garden, at the Botanical Garden of Jibou, Romania. 2014 The School of Cluj, BWA Sokol Gallery for Contempory Art, Nowy Sacz, The Malopolska Art Center, Poland. Safari Art Fair, Bucharest. 2013 Intact Space Gallery, Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj- Napoca. The Meeting Point International Biennale, Arad. 2012 Salon on the Balcony, at The Cluj- Napoca Museum of Art. InspirArt, AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest. Hangar Gallery, Cluj- Napoca. The Romanian Graphic Arts Show 2012, Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest. 2011 The Meeting Point International Biennale, Arad, Romania. 2010 Ceaţa/ Fogg/ Bruillard, International Art Show at Ioan Sima Museum, Zalau and The Cluj- Napoca Museum of Art. 2009 Europa Artium 2009, Show of the School of Cluj in The Cluj- Napoca Museum of Art. 2008 NeoReal, Show of the School of Cluj at The Cluj- Napoca Museum of Art.
2007 Artists from Cluj, group Show at the Senso Gallery, Bucharest. The National Show of Painting and Sculpture, at The Parliament Palace, Bucharest. 2006 Natural/ Artificial, International Land Art Show, Cluj- Napoca, Romania. 2005 ArtEast, Show of the School of Cluj at The Greater Gallery of the Union of the Artists in Cluj- Napoca. Show of the School of Cluj at The Montecatini Terme Museum of Art, Italy. I Love Pictura, Show of the School of Cluj at the Continental Hotel, ClujNapoca. 2004 Grey Pink, Show of the School of Cluj at The Greater Gallery of the Union of the Artists in Cluj- Napoca. Essentia, International Art Show at the Cluj- Napoca Museum of Art. In the Mirror of Las Meninas, Art Show at the Cluj- Napoca Museum of Art. 2003 The Line of View, Show of the School of Cluj at The Greater Gallery of the Union of the Artists in Cluj- Napoca. Underground Black, Show of the School of Cluj at Casa Matei Gallery of the University of Art and Design in Cluj- Napoca. 2002 Afirmative, Show of the School of Cluj in The Greater Gallery of the Union of the Artists in Cluj- Napoca. Incontro a Roma, Galley of the Academia di Romania, Rome, Italy. 2000 “Liber Studiorum” , Art Show at the Cluj- Napoca Museum of Art. Painters from Cluj, Culture Palace, Iasi, Romania. 1993 Romanian Art, The Zwolle University, Zwolle, Holland. The Romanian Painting and Sculpture Showcase, Dalles Hall, Bucharest. 1992 Ecce Homo, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest. The Romanian Painting and Sculpture Showcase, Dalles Hall, Bucharest. 1991 Ecce Homo, in The Greater Gallery of the Union of the Artists in ClujNapoca. 1990 The Show of the Young Artists, in The Greater Gallery of the Union of the Artists in Cluj- Napoca. 1988 The Romanian Painting and Sculpture Showcase, Dalles Hall, Bucharest. Studio Adress: Ateliers of the Union of the Artists, 19 Albac Street, Cluj- Napoca. Home Adress: 36 Ioan Budai Deleanu Street, 400474, Cluj- Napoca, Romania. E- mail: ioanaantoniu14@gmail.com Website: www.ioanaantoniu.ro
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Ioana Antoniu: Mirage The Cluj-Napoca Museum of Art 22-th of June to the 21-th of July, 2016 Preface and introduction by Ioana Antoniu. Ioana Antoniu would like to thank Radu Pulbere, Ioan Sbârciu, Radu Șerban, Duiliu Crișan, Alexandra Breban, Lucian Nastasă-Kovacs, Marcela Pop. Translation in English Language by Luca Pulbere. 50
Photography and catalogue design by Radu Șerban. Printed by GPO Cluj-Napoca. www.IoanaAntoniu.ro www.macluj.ro
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