Jecza Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the group exhibition More Real Than Nature, curated by Norbert Filep, bringing together works by artists Victor Ciato, Ioan Sbârciu, Radu Comșa, Simion Cernica, Leonardo Silaghi, Maxim Liulca, Oana Năstăsache, Norbert Ștefan, and Mihaela Hudrea.
The exhibition explores the evolution of the relationship between the figurative and the abstract within the context of contemporary visual culture. When Josef Albers put forward the idea of a “super-reality” of abstract painting, the relationship between the figurative image and pictorial space already seemed shaken at the foundations of the conventional principles of mimesis, which had dominated painting up to the early stages of modernity. The historical avant-gardes destabilized traditional perspectives of pictorial logic, reversing the relationship between the descriptive and the non-descriptive, between the figurative and the abstract. Thus, form, color, and painterly gesture became autonomous strategies of artistic thinking, freed from the academic constraints of representation.
Today, this relationship is once again in a moment of transformation. Screen culture dominates physical space, and visual information circulates through the immaterial infrastructure of networks. The expansion of images seems to surpass our own senses through increasingly present generative technologies in contemporary visual production.