Scissors, Paper, Stone – Eleven artists exhibit in Iasi and Bucharest
The collective exhibition “Scissors, Paper, Stone”, which brings together eleven Romanian artists, is part of the Romanian Sculptors Month in Iasi series and opens on February 22 at the National Museum of Romanian Literature Iasi.
Curated by Cristina Simion, the exhibition inspired by the game of the same name will arrive in April at the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Bucharest.
Each of the artists invited in the exhibition has artistic research and thematics related to the exploration of play, chance, hierarchy and power/fragility and the roles they play in artistic choices.
Mirela Anura has been concerned for over three decades, in her works, with the binomial strength-fragility, using the material that has consecrated her – paper, as an expression of the apparent feminine fragility. Alexandru Ranga uses, allegorically, in his works, insignificant creatures (bees – positive archetype, rats – negative archetype) as symbols of resistance and durability, to explore the theme of geo-political hierarchy and relationships in a dictatorial society and consumer society.
Maxim Dumitraș’s “Surrounded Absences” suggests the constant pressure of external limitations imposed on the individual by society, while Liviu Mocan’s entire work is an investigation of the relationship between man and Divinity.
The symbolic representation of crowds in the selected works by Vladlen Babcinețchi and Bogdan Nueleanu enters into a natural dialog with the allegorical one, in which the individual becomes the image of abstract ideas. The angels in Gabriela Drinceanu’s works, the pilgrims in Emanuel Chiriac’s – or in which he transforms himself into fantastic creatures, retaining elements of humanity, half-human, half-idea, like Libe-lomul or Fata-carte by Sorin Purcaru.
The fragile relationship between order and chaos, between the individual and society, is constantly explored in Florin Zhu’s works, and those signed by Ana Maria Negară are a metaphor for the inherent vulnerability that beauty, whether in the classical or modern sense, contains. The choice of the participating artists and works followed the double curatorial idea: that of the theme approached and that of the material of execution, the latter being, practically, contained in the title.
The exhibition can be visited from February 22 to April 18, 2025, from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 17:00 (16:30 – last ticket issued), in the temporary exhibition rooms on the ground floor of the Museum House Iasi.
