Despre
Galeria Plan B is pleased to present paintings and propositions Iulia Nistor’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. In her work, Nistor explores processes that analyze and question the preexisting concepts shaping our perception. Through painting, text, and spatial interventions she probes the conditions and boundaries of perception and representation.
Like the display of a study, painting and writing are placed side by side. New works from Iulia Nistor's ongoing series of Evidencepaintings are presented next to related text-works. In the paintings, she aims to depict the contingent properties of objects, which leads to the exclusion of the image of the object itself. This empirical process does not result in a common aesthetic, as it is intended to capture the phenomenon in question. “Paint has been applied to wooden supports with a precision and formal variety that implies accuracy to ulterior subjects, which yet remain undefinable,” Mark Prince describes in his text for the show, also suggesting that “It is consistent with this cultivation of paradox that, although Nistor’s paintings are riddled with illusionism, they question its workings rather than attempting to conceal them.” Painting does not serve to communicate contents, but is rather used by the artist as an opportunity to observe the mental processes inherent to the act of representation.
The text-works are working sheets on which Nistor formulates propositions that describe and question the concepts related to this process. A typed version of several sentences written underneath each other is commented on and corrected by hand, which gives insight into her process of thinking and doubt. Furthermore, it suggests a sedimentation through revision and redefinition, paralleled in the paintings. Both painting and writing are presented as processes that formulate and challenge how we think and perceive.
Extending this inquiry into the physical space, Nistor's interventions mimic architectural or structural elements that are typically taken for granted. These additions seamlessly blend with their surroundings and are not mentioned on the exhibition's floor plan or the list of works, thus concealing their artistic origin and exposing our assumptions about what is given and what is made. By inducing uncertainty and doubt, these spatial manipulations further expose how our perception is informed by our concepts and expectations.
Echipă
Proprietar și Director
Mihai Pop
Asistentă Director
Sorana Serban-Chiorean
Comunicare
Isabel Holert
Director de Vânzări pentru Asia
Ivan Chang
Asistență Galeriei & Arhivă
Mara Iliescu-Daramus
Asistență Tehnică & Stocare
Sorin Prodea
Asistență Tehnică & Stocare
Flaviu Cacoveanu
Finanțiar și Manager de Oficiu
Tania Castellvi
Manager
Gabriela Tirziu
Asistență Galeriei & Oficiu
Marcello Plebani
Asistență Tehnică
Alexandru Budes
Asistență Galeriei & Producere
Alexandru Damian
Asistență Galeriei & Producere
Mariana Damian
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