Artists: Răzvan Botiș, Radu Comșa, Camilia Filipov, Nona Inescu, Alex Mirutziu, Vlad Nancă
Exhibition title: Once More into the Grey
Curated by: SABOT, Cluj-Napoca
Venue: UNA, Piacenza, Italy
Date: October 27 – December 29, 2018
Photography: Marco Fava / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists, UNA, Piacenza and SABOT, Cluj-Napoca
UNA is pleased to announce its collaboration with Sabot gallery from Cluj-Napoca and to present Once More into the Grey, a group exhibition which includes artworks by Răzvan Botiș, Radu Comșa, Camilia Filipov, Nona Inescu, Alex Mirutziu, Vlad Nancă.
The exhibition, specially conceived by Sabot for the space of UNA, features a selection of black and white artworks only by Romanian artists – an allusion to the state of the (art) world today and, at the same time, to the famous Cluj “grey school of painting”. Nonetheless, not only paintings are on display, the exhibition is conceived as a colorless dialogue between several rather mysterious works – sculpture, photography, installation…
SABOT gallery has been founded by Daria D. Pervain and Marcel Janco at the beginning of 2009 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, as an attempt to verify the raison d’être of a gallery in the third millennium. Hidden relationships, longtime friendships, communality, fictional identities and situations blurring the barrier between public and domestic — these are the main, statutory highlights of SABOT. A laboratory, an incubator, a research tentacle, the gallery acts equally as a curator, a producer, and a habitat.
Since its debut, SABOT has co-founded two art centers in Cluj-Napoca – The Paintbrush Factory, in 2009, and Centrul de Interes, at the beginning of 2017 – hugely contributing to the development of the Romanian contemporary art scene. Until 2018, the gallery has participated in more than 30 international art fairs – from Artissima or ARCOmadrid, to LISTE, Paris Internationale and NADA Miami, to name just a few.
UNA is a new contemporary art gallery dedicated to the promotion of emerging artists established in spring 2018 in Piacenza out of a collaboration between Marta Barbieri and Paola Bonino. Giving particular attention to Italian artists, the gallery aims, in parallel, to expand its reach, opening new collaborations, with a more dynamic and international approach.
UNA dedicates a particular passion towards organizing off-site curatorial projects and site-specific events, amongst them the the annual exhibition programme in collaboration with Spazio Leonardo, the new space of Leonardo Assicurazioni – Generali Milano.
Once More into the Grey, 2018, exhibition view, curated by SABOT, at UNA, Piacenza, photo: Marco Fava
Once More into the Grey, 2018, exhibition view, curated by SABOT, at UNA, Piacenza, photo: Marco Fava
TAH 29 (The Artist and Himself at 29) / Alex Mirutziu, Self portrait with borrowed feature, 2014, wax mold, 30 x 18 x 14 cm, photo: Marco Fava
Once More into the Grey, 2018, exhibition view, curated by SABOT, at UNA, Piacenza, photo: Marco Fava
Radu Comşa, Impromptu for 7 irregular shades, 2014, series of 7 panels, wood, acrylic, grey tights, 60 x 40 cm (each) / approx. 60 x 350 cm (overall), photo: Marco Fava
Once More into the Grey, 2018, exhibition view, curated by SABOT, at UNA, Piacenza, photo: Marco Fava
Once More into the Grey, 2018, exhibition view, curated by SABOT, at UNA, Piacenza, photo: Marco Fava
Once More into the Grey, 2018, exhibition view, curated by SABOT, at UNA, Piacenza, photo: Marco Fava
Once More into the Grey, 2018, exhibition view, curated by SABOT, at UNA, Piacenza, photo: Marco Fava
Once More into the Grey, 2018, exhibition view, curated by SABOT, at UNA, Piacenza, photo: Marco Fava
Alex Mirutziu, The colour of my middleclass, 2007/2017, archival print on Hahnemühle paper, 61 x 46,5 cm, photo: Marco Fava
Camilia Filipov, Paint-spread (moving along the canvas’tension lines), 2018, oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm, photo: Marco Fava
Camilia Filipov, Assemblage II, 2018, cardboard, plaster, plastic, photo: Marco Fava
Razvan Botiş, Diogene, 2016, longboard and glazed ceramic, photo: Marco Fava
Camilia Filipov, Assemblage I, 2018, marble, metal, wood, photo: Marco Fava
Nona Inescu, Lodger (Hypothetical Ancestral Mollusc), 2018, galvanized steel, latex, aluminum ball, chain lock, 135 x 55 x 20 cm, photo: Marco Fava
