SINEGRAFIA
curator Silviu Padurariu
Ars Monitor gallery
2024 January / Casa Presei Libere, Corp A2/ Etaj 3
The current exhibition provides a panoramic overview of a series of themes, techniques, and representative subjects-due to their recurrence and the depth of exploration-for Răzvan Neagoe’s artistic journey over the past 20 years. Portraiture, still life, landscape, and urban space form the basis of this narrative self-scripting, considering that, in most cases, representation is confronted and nullified by the technical issues of the darkroom and camera.
The image is reclaimed as a witness that records photographic errors and alterations. Consequently, it is removed from the realm of the recognisable, and the image is brought into a meditative and experimental territory of analytical and self-reflective origin. In his approach, the rudiments of analog photography, augmented with various experimental curiosities, are the primary creative tools through which the image undergoes psychological, existential, and phenomenological questioning.
Trained as a painter, completing his studies under Teodor Moraru in 2002, and his master’s under Mihail Mănescu in 2003, his approaches in the photo lab seem to be residues of the image creator in the studio. Attracted to the idea of an image as a trace, the artist operates in an intermediate territory where the image loses its definition as a “window,” in the traditional sense given by Alberti to painting, and as a “mirror,” in the sense conferred by the camera’s function.
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