moved to Antwerp

after one year in London, I am now calling Antwerp home...

clash of modernism (brancusi's sculpture) and functionalism (as in birds nests)

Sunday evening collage made by Nona after a discussion we had during Saturday dinner...

Drumul exhibition in Sibiu

The Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal Museum presents

Vlad Nancă – The Road

August, 30 – September, 25 2011

In his art, Vlad Nancă fundamentally rejects status quo and part of the comfortable social rules. Many might consider Vlad Nancă’s artistic strategies skilful and cynical. But Vlad Nancă just uses the context of the time in which he lives in. The artist criticises the context in the same way he approaches a sculptural mass – deriving from empathy, possibility and volume. It is interesting how he overtakes referential images from the history of arts, eliminating the tautological interpretation and leaving behind just the pure and elegant form; and the expectances and the hopes of the beholder head towards this certain form.    

At a personal level, Vlad Nancă might seem seduced by social glamour; the talent, the musicality of aesthetics and the adrenalin of materiality place him in a post-shooting treatment, a state of uncertainty in which the artist sees the world as he thinks the world should be.

Vlad Nancă follows two major possibilities of the art work: the exploration of the human body in transforming the objects while interconnecting the topic – body – wood – design, and the authentication of architecture through playing with space – absence – memory.

The temptation towards materials mainly used in the preparation and the study of future works rather than in producing the final objects contributes to shaping an anarchic-poetical vision towards a life that can be lived. Essentially speaking, an elaborate attempt to reach a specific fineness captures unfamiliar, public spaces and brings them into the intimacy of the domestic space. The fossilised every-day life objects punctuate important moments from the artist’s biography, and allow you to state, as reader of the image, that Vlad Nancă was here. And this statement represents the authenticity certificate of the poetic. A minimalist sensitivity and an acute modernity certify Vlad Nancă’s position on the Romanian contemporary art scene.

Liviana Dan

Meanwhile in Rennes

Photo from this show...

souvenir from Alexandria

London

4 months ago I moved to London... here are some pictures and here are some more

"Works" opening

Individual images of the works in the exhibition can be seen here

New exhibtion at Sabot

SABOT is pleased to present WORKS, an assortment of ‘daily obstructions’ by Romanian artist Vlad Nancă.
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"For his show at Sabot, Nancă turns to reality and this time the reality he addresses is that of the last few years in Romania, characterized by sudden prosperity and exaggerations. Because of the total absence of references from art history, the show resembles a contemporary version of Dürer’s 'Melencolia'. The space is enriched by a series of objects, each of them with a specific meaning and place (yes, like a rebus!): a large box, a collection of funnels, two pairs of wooden portals, a tripod, a cement bag and a mattress. The artist describes the deliberate assortment of odd things as “‘beautiful’ works. However un-political I might try to be, I think there is politics in everything and I think there is also a critical discourse in this exhibition.” Beauty is nothing without depth. At the same time, Nancă’s melancholia (he uses the word “poetic”) is an attempt to make something that elevates ordinary domestic life to an aesthetic Olympus: the common becomes precious. While many contemporary artists use such a strategy, Nancă envisions the life of such objects in space and their connection with the artistic genre of melancholia opens up new avenues and new channels for interpretations." (excerpt from Marcel Janco’s "Two or three things I know about Vlad Nancă")

"Vlad Nancă's recent works disclose a distinct interest in objecthood of the exhibits and sculptural forms, sometimes with direct references to the minimalist legacy. Yet, this aestheticism does not convey a withdrawal from the social. The objects he employs and reconstructs are either modelled from objects of the quotidian life or taken in fully as ready-mades -a strategy, which allows Nancă to construct networks of meaning through the social codes these objects harbor." (from Erden Kosova’s "Objects of possession")

"With an immaculate design, simple and clean, almost precious in the precision of details, with neutral amorphous material qualities used for their painterly virtues, with an inner playful nerve that does not exclude functionality but dislocates it, these ingenious devices manage to turn the ordinary object into a singular object. (...) Nancă's objects are deviated through manufactured malformations applied to containers, city’s functional cables, cement sacks or to interdiction barriers." (from Mica Gherghescu’s "Pieces of Landscape")
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Performance at CNDB 03/03/2010

LIBERTATE

Commemora is a performance, done with the help of wonderful Mrs Maria Hermine Hainke.

08/08/09 hyphen

"Hyphen" is a new work that resulted from my research on Paul Neagu's art and teaching last summer, it's another work that has deep origins in my childhood, but also an homage to Paul Neagu... The performance took place on 8 August, this year. Tudor Prisacariu was really kind and helped with the photo documentation.

Here is an update of my on line portfolio.

october in bucharest