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New work displayed in OBSERVATOR exhibition: "4-Depth Observation"

  • Writer: Malina Moncea
    Malina Moncea
  • Nov 7, 2024
  • 2 min read

Updated: Nov 13, 2024

Group exhibition: November 9, 2024 - January 31, 2025

Public presentation and public reading: Saturday, November 9, 6 p.m. / Sf. Atanasie Street no. 25, Iasi (tranzit ro/ Iasi)

Exhibition opening: Saturday, November 9, 6 p.m. / Sf. Atanasie Street no. 25, Iasi (tranzit ro/ Iasi)

On November 9, the Observator group exhibition opens in Iasi, organized in the frame of the cultural project with the same name. The exhibition presents contributions by Astronomical Observatory in Bârlad & Ciprian Vîntdevara(RO), Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor (RO), Andreea Cioară (RO), Edi Constantin (RO), Nebojsa Milikic (SRB), Ana Maria Micu (RO), Mălina Moncea (RO), Andrei Nacu (RO/UK), Tudor Patrascu (RO), Maxim Polyakov & DRUJBA (MD), s.a.b.a. Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu (RO), Kristin Wenzel (DE/RO), Ovidiu Tichindeleanu (RO/DK). The group exhibition is curated by Florin Bobu & Delia Bulgaru and can be visited until the end of January 2025.

This group exhibition is part of the cultural project OBSERVATOR organized by Satelit Association (Iași) between August and November 2024. Main partner: tranzit ro/ Iasi, 1+1 (Iași). Partners: Oberliht Association, "Vasile Pârvan" Museum, GAP (Gazeta de Arta Politică). Project co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration. ERSTE Foundation is main partner of tranzit ro

More about the project on the websites of SATELIT Association and TRANZIT RO Association.


 My personal contribution, the project: "4Depth Observation"


The project poetically constructs the act of observing, as well as the modular structure of an astronomical observatory, by creating “lenses” from resin with asymmetric and unconventional shapes, the “space” represented by the grainy sky of film photographs, and the structure of the telescope, modeled and 3D-printed, along with an artistic text that contains keys to double meanings. The technical and calculated side is carefully interwoven with the metaphorical, deconstructing physical spaces and mathematical equations in a playful manner that speaks to the speculative sensitivities of people, especially of the project's author.

The images that serve as a backdrop for the objects are created on 35mm film, taken in different years, capturing the sky in various stages. They are oversized so that the film’s grain serves as metaphorical “stars” on an almost intelligible sky, creating a poetic micro-universe. The spots from the film’s developing substances, the grain, clouds, and horizon line mark phrases from a personal artistic language. The resin as an object adheres to the print, creating a new mediated way of viewing the sky. The 3D object acts as a vector toward the artistic text, as well as a conceptual weight for the work.

 
 
 

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