Iulian Bisericaru. Artist Portfolio

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1 Iulian Bisericaru Artist Portfolio

2 Iulian Bisericaru b Biography Iulian Bisericaru(1987) lives and works in Sibiu and Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He graduated from the Painting Department of the University of Arts and Design Cluj- Napoca (RO), where he presently is a PhD candidate. His artworks offer a somehow neglected or hidden perspective on aspects of contemporary society, that the human eye willingly avoids. Ironic and playful at the same time, the artist demands the beholder to take a critical position towards environmental issues, be it by depicting the remains of industrial society or by approaching the controversial topic of city planning. The most recent painterly series of Iulian Bisericaru approach a scenery inspired by Long Island-like first postwar modern housing projects. Situating his artworks somewhere in-between Bay Area Figurative Movement and lyrical abstraction, Iulian Bisericaru points out elements of absence, juxtapositions, natural and anthropic paradoxes. Throughout his artistic practice, Iulian Bisericaru has been reflecting upon the tensioned relationship between nature and the artificial, history and its potentiality for the future. Alluding to revolutionary programs of pioneers such as Le Corbusier and Frank Llyod Wright, series such as Usonia (Into the Wild) ( ) pushes the viewer into a secluded, almost surreal setting that is traversed by abrupt perspectives and complex fictional housing structures, which ambiguously reinterpret the integration with the natural surroundings and the emphasis placed on the harmony between man and nature. Pictorial series such as Original Imago ( ), Just Nature ( ) or The Backyard ( ) address the issue of the post-industrial landscape, where the marginal scenery of the suburb, the toxicity of the environment and the decaying state of the industry have a seminal position. As an ecologist, both by vision and through action, Bisericaru recycled images, resuscitating them for the collective memory by means of an intense aesthetic experience. By contrasting sharp lines and chromatics with definite colour zones and loud, loose painting with expressive elements, the paintings become - in some passages - autonomous, almost abstract patterns. Iulian Bisericaru s visual practice is essentially linked to a profound engagement within the social realm, spanning from the critique of the utopian history, which invented the productivity and sustainability of massive industrial expansion to the idealistic alternative of architectural philosophies that reshaped the morphological connection between the urban and natural environments involved.

3 Solo exhibitions 2016 Calina Gallery, curator Liviana Dan, Timișoara, Romania 2015 Influences, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania Usonia Into The wild, Atelier Patru, Cluj Napoca, Romania 2014 The Backyard, Bucharest Biennale 6 paralel event and special event for the White Night of Galleries, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania Meet the artist, The Ark, Bucharest, Romania 2012 Asphyxia, Casa Matei, Cluj, Romania Group exhibitions 2018 [upcoming] Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore 2017 The Map is Not the Territory, The Romanian Cultural Institute, Lisbon, Portugal Aschersleben Artistic Residency group exhibition 2016 Uncanny Landscapes, Artissima Art Fair, with Anca Poterasu Gallery, Torino, Italy SpinnereiGalleries Leipzig, with Anca Poterasu Gallery, Leipzig, Germany Expo Maraton RECALL, Presentation of winning artists from , University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca in collaboration with the Museum of Art of Cluj-Napoca Re: Fresh, Paul Sima Gallery, event under the aegis of University of Fine Arts, Cluj Napoca, Romania Extension.RO - Romanian painters, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2015 System error, The National Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, curators Magda Grzybowska, Łukasz Huculak şi Karolina Szymanowska Double Agency, Spatiul Cazarma, Timisoara, Romania - part of Art Encounters event curated Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher The Superheroes Beyond the Carpathians, Vienna Contemporary Fair, Austria 2012 Startpoint Prize Romania, Victoria Art Center, Bucharest, Romania Expotransilvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, event under the aegis of

4 University of Fine Arts, Cluj Napoca Girl Talk, Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2009 Mirionima Gallery, Macerata, Marche, Italia, event in the Erasmus scholarship under the aegis of Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata Del Fuorn Gallery, Macerata, Italia, event in the Erasmus scholarship under the aegis of Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata 2007 Omul, X-Future Gallery, Sibiu, Romania Awards 2012 nominated at Startpoint Prize Romania 2012 Expomaraton at the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, jury prize Residencies 2017 International Summer Internship at Aschersleben, artist scholarship 2015 Roma, Italy, Erasmus scholarship under the aegis of Accademia di Romania 2013 San Martino, Intensive Program Crivelli Reading, Marche, Italy 2009 Macerata, Erasmus scholarship, Marche, Italy Bibliography Extension.ro exhibition catalogue (group exhibition), Triumph Gallery, Moscow, 2016 Blad Systemu/ System Error exhibition catalogue (group exhibition), The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, 2016

5 Selected works and series

6 Inwood, oil on canvas, 100 x 134cm, 2017 Presented at VOLTA 13 Basel 2017

7 The Poet's Garden IV, 36 x 39 cm, oil on canvas, 2017

8 The Poet's Garden III, 46 x 35 cm, oil on canvas, 2017

9 The Poet's Garden II, 37.5 x 39.5 cm, oil on canvas, 2017

10 The Poet's Garden I, 35 x 37 cm, oil on canvas, 2017 Presented at VOLTA 13 Basel 2017

11 The Poet's Garden VI, 36 x 39 cm, oil on canvas, 2017

12 Eiger, oil on canvas, 166 x 116 cm, 2017 On show at the Romanian Cultural Institute Lisbon 2017

13 Unlucky Heritage House, 112 x 112 cm, oil on canvas, 2016

14 Untitled, oil on canvas, 140 x 180 cm, 2016 On show at the Romanian Cultural Institute Lisbon 2017

15 Cityscape, oil on canvas, 90 x132 cm, 2016

16 Diebenkorn's light, oil on canvas, 128 x 88 cm, 2016

17 I Believe In Forest, oil on canvas, 52 x70 cm, 2016 Presented at VOLTA 13 Basel 2017

18 Untitled, oil and acrylic on canvas, 70 x 60 cm, euro -sold

19 Mixture, mixed media, 84 x 105 cm, mixed media, 2016

20 Psycho Forest, oil on canvas, 73 x 105 cm oil on canvas, 2016

21 Untitled, oil on canvas, 146 x 115 cm, 2015

22 Influences, oil on canvas, 103 x 70cm, 2015

23 Untitled, oil on canvas, 77 x 38 cm, 2015

24 Untitled, oil on canvas, 40 x 60 cm, 2014

25 Untitled, oil on canvas, 40 x 65 cm, 2014

26 Untitled, oil on canvas, 40 x 73 cm, 2014

27 Untitled, oil on canvas, 41 x 60 cm, 2014

28 Untitled, oil on canvas, 41 x 60,5 cm, 2014 Sky, oil on canvas, 41 x 71 cm, 2014 Usonian House, oil on canvas, 41,5 x 91 cm, 2014

29 Usonia Into the Wild, oil on canvas, 42 x 70 cm, 2014

30 Feeling November, oil on canvas, 42 x 74 cm, 2014

31 Untitled, oil on canvas, 43 x 72 cm, 2014

32 Untitled, oil on canvas, 44 x 79 cm, 2014

33 Untitled, oil on canvas, 42 x 74 cm, 2015 White Mountains, oil on canvas, 41 x 75 cm, 2015

34 Untitled, oil on canvas, 48 x 79 cm, 2015 Presented at the Romanian Cultural Institute Lisabona 2017

35 Untitled, oil on canvas, 38 x 68 cm, 2015

36 Untitled, oil on canvas, 40 x 60 cm, 2015

37 Untitled, oil on canvas, 44 x 57 cm, 2015

38 Untitled, 38 x 73 cm, oil on canvas, 2014 Untitled, 42 x 65 cm, oil on canvas, 2014

39 Untitled, 33 x 61cm, oil on canvas, 2014 Untitled, 35 x 63cm, oil on canvas, 2013

40 Untitled, 41,5 x 65 cm, oil on canvas, 2014 Untitled, 42 x 38 cm, oil on canvas, 2014

41 Untitled, 66,5 x 47 cm, oil on canvas, 2014

42 Ship Mirage, 150 x 170 cm, oil on canvas, 2012

43 The Boss, 200 x 200 cm, oil on canvas, 2012

44 Cruise Ship, 160 x 180 cm, oil on canvas, 2012