Archive
2020
KubaParis
BRUIAJ
Location
Art Encounters FoundationDate
27.02 –11.06.2020Curator
Diana MarincuPhotography
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Michele Bressan, Lea Rasovszky, Larisa SitarText
BRUIAJ
Art Encounters Foundation,Timișoara, Romania
28th February – 15th April 2020
Artists: Michele Bressan, Lea Rasovszky, Larisa Sitar
Curator: Diana Marincu / Assistant curator: Georgia Țidorescu
The exhibition BRUIAJ, the third episode in the series of collaborations between the artists Michele
Bressan, Lea Rasovsky, and Larisa Sitar, bears witness to a generation solidarity that sets the frame
for a dialogue developed naturally, spanning a long period of time.
BRUIAJ focuses on exploring the topography of memory unfolding raw images, atavistic and
enigmatic visions of personal and collective histories, never processed till their deepest layer.
Residues lurking in these folds disturb even the clearest of the stories. This disturbance forces the
path of visual experience to multiple detours, diversions and surprises stemming from themes such
as the aesthetics of the private space, the everyday eeriness, funeral rites, military arsenal, ruin, and
disappearance.
On the one hand, the artworks of the three artists bring to the fore the innocence of discovering, with
genuine curiosity, the inner and outer world, on the other, they let the door open for fiction to set in
and build its own version of reality, “enhanced” by 3D modelling or excessive adornment. In between
irony and melancholy, the works reflect the artists’ concern for the relationship between a false
antiquity necessary for embedding in collective mythologies, including those of the artistic act, and
the updated references to personal landmarks, describing their attitude in relation to the passing of
time and to history. The “mess” the artists create influence the overall vibe, sometimes intimate and
familiar, sometimes harsh and abrasive, of a space outlined by drawings, installations, bas-relief,
and in-situ interventions.
The positions in which we meet again Michele Bressan, Lea Rasovsky, and Larisa Sitar derive from
a core of already existing recent works, but also from new productions, specially made for this
exhibition.
List of artworks:
Michele Bressan
1. Like in one of My Dreams #2, (2019)
2. How Can You Think Of Fame Or Death, (2020)
3. Cinema Patria (Waiting for the Drama series), (2011)
4. Black Dress, (2019)
5. Like in One of my Dreams #0, (2020)
6. Sorrow (Fake Ancient History), (2020)
7. Timpuri Noi, (2014)
8. Overhead Projections, (2019)
Lea Rasovszky
1. The Impossibility of Counting That Which Is Numberless, (2015)
2. How Can You Think of Fame or Death, (2020)
3. God As A Boy, (2017)
4. Composition with Wilted Tulips, Racing Pulse and Wooden Cross, (2019)
5. Selfportrait on a Shitty Day, (2019)
6. Tetra Pink, (2019)
7. Everything I Left Behind, (2020)
8. Bird Boy, (2019)
9. Lap Dog Self, (2019)
10. Unconsolable, (2019)
11. Ode to My Left Hand, (2020)
12. Nightmare at the Drawing Olympics, (2020)
13. Criers (Is it Weird That I Want to Taste Your Tears?), (2019)
Larisa Sitar
1. Roboust Boast, series of 10 works (2019)
2. Untitled, (2020)
3. Untitled, (2020)
Diana Marincu