The vernissage of the group exhibition “Why a Story Rather than the Field of It” is taking place on Tuesday, the 14th of June 2022, starting from 18:30, on the Senso Gallery floor, in Bucharest (Calea Victoriei 12C), The collective exhibition gathers abstract paintings by 4 contemporary Romanian artists: Sabina Legănaru, Florentina Otari, Augustin Răzvan Radu and Constantin Rusu. With Ana Daniela Sultana as curator, the project is part of the visual arts programme conceived by Ana Ștefania Andronic (BUZU), Artistic Director of the exhibition space, and can be visited between the 14th and the 30th of June, Monday to Saturday, between 12:00 and 19:00.
“Belonging to the world of the ineffable, abstract painting – which, since its appearance in modernism, has represented a cause for controversy thanks to its radicalism and subversion – nowadays may seem, once again, in relationship to the current tendencies in contemporary art, when digitalization and politicization dictate the norm, an almost iconoclastic strategy, This exhibition explores different valences of contemporary abstract painting, certainly without claiming to cover all of them exhaustively. Therefore, we encounter four different tendencies: towards gestural abstraction from Sabina Legănaru, op art from Florentina Otari, chromatic experiments from Augustin Răzvan Radu, and conceptual art from Constantin Rusu.
If for Augustin Răzvan Radu the stake is color, for Florentina Otari, Sabina Legănaru and Constantin Rusu the creation process takes precedence.
This is why making the selection was at the same time a delight and a challenge, especially because the works – which are representative for the artistic practice and well-defined style of each artist – leave a lot of room for interpretation. So, let the free game of imagination begin!” – Ana Daniela Sultana