limone, limone
Radu Oreian
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
NOVO
Eduardo Secci
Milan, from October 8 to November 27, 2021
Opening: Friday, October 8, 4:00 - 9:00 pm
Exhibition walkthrough video with the artist
Exhibition view, limone, limone, Radu Oreian, NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano, 2021, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
In Milan from October 8 to November 27, 2021, Eduardo Secci’s project space NOVO is pleased to present the solo show “limone, limone” of Radu Oreian curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto.
The exhibited body of works, including the latest large- and small-scale paintings, with which the Romanian artist continues the meditation begun on the occasion of the previous exhibitions in Florence (Eduardo Secci, 2021) and Rome (La Fondazione, 2020).
As Pier Paolo Pancotto writes in his curatorial text, “(…) also, from an iconographic point of view, the works conceived for the Milan exhibition open Oreian's vocabulary to new visual opportunities. Intellectual memory (Renaissance painting admired in Pompeii and Rome, or the Etruscan learned in Tarquinia, the calligraphy of the ancient East), which has always been accompanied by the physical one (the reference to the bowels of one's body, to one's skin or the biological liquids), seems to find more and more space in the artist's creative exercise by implementing it with new atmospheres. In particular, various references to antiquity emerge on the canvas with the strength of distant memories, weak in the visual definition but intense from an emotional point of view. Thus, unexpected narrative passages appear among the organic textures of color, according to an original and personal interpretation of the artist’s surrealist syntax. (...) ".
Radu Oreian's practice is inspired by drawing and painting classical techniques exploring how history, ancient myths and archives shape our society, and understanding of humanity. The common thread, running through and connecting his works, is represented by a new meditative visual imprint creation with a particular density that seems to exist in a pulsating state of tension and relaxation.
The exhibition walkthrough video with the artist will be online at www.novo.ooo/exhibitions.
Exhibition view, limone, limone, Radu Oreian, NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano, 2021, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Radu Oreian (1984, Târnăveni, Romania) lived and works in France. She studied at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca (2002) and at the Bucharest National University of Art (2007).
His works have been exhibited at La Fondazione in Roma (2020), SVIT Gallery in Prague (2020), Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris (2019), Plan B Foundation in Cluj-Napoca (2019), Galerie Isa in Mumbai (2018), Gallery Nosco in Marseille (2017), Nicodim Gallery in Bucharest (2017), MeetFactory in Prague (2016).
Pier Paolo Pancotto is an art critic and historian, curator of La Fondazione in Rome and of the Art Club exhibition program at Villa Medici - Académie de Francia in Roma.
limone, limone
Radu Oreian
Curatorial Essay by Pier Paolo Pancotto
After his experiences in Rome and Florence, Radu Oreian (Târnăveni, 1984) today presents the latest research results in Milan. It is a selection of small and large paintings created for the occasion which, in addition to confirming its poetics, somehow enrich its vocabulary by integrating it with new, unexpected nuances, both from a technical and compositional perspective.
His highly expressive painting, made of dense material with plastic strokes (thanks to the technique with which it is applied on the surface, layered and kneaded with the tip of a brush), lights up, in today's case, even with new investigations, in particular on the variation of colors. Proof of this is, for example, the canvas Limone, lemon (2021), hence the title of the exhibition, created by drawing inspiration from the observation of two lemons stored in the refrigerator at home during the recent lockdown and left to their disintegration process. Similarly, Anemones or Marguerites (2021) are characterized by a wide chromatic range that corresponds to that linked to the seasonal and typological changes of the flowers portrayed and that the artist has examined and memorized over time. Or, Gothic tornado II (2021), of considerable size, where sudden timbral gashes break the tonal exercise.
Also, from an iconographic point of view, the works conceived for the Milan exhibition open Oreian's vocabulary to new visual opportunities. Intellectual memory (Renaissance painting admired in Pompeii and Rome, or the Etruscan learned in Tarquinia, the calligraphy of the ancient East), which has always been accompanied by the physical one (the reference to the bowels of one's body, to one's skin or the biological liquids), seems to find more and more space in the artist's creative exercise by implementing it with new atmospheres. In particular, various references to antiquity emerge on the canvas with the strength of distant memories, weak in the visual definition but intense from an emotional point of view. Thus, unexpected narrative passages emerge among the organic textures of color, according to an original and personal interpretation of the artist's surrealist syntax. For example, portions of the so-called Sappho, I AD, coming from the site of Pompeii and today at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, can be recognized, a girl richly dressed up with a gold net on her hair and large earrings (L'androgyne, 2021). Also from Pompeii, for example from the House of the Faun, or more generally from ancient painting (such as that appreciated at the National Roman Museum in Rome where he often returns to admire the nymphaeum of the Villa di Livia at Prima Porta, 1st century AD) come satyrs, nymphs (Reverie with satyr and nymph, 2021), plants, flowers, fruits, animals. To the same context belong marine or aquatic representations that Oreian places in relation to similar contemporary images (for example, the modern fountain placed in front of his studio and carefully observed during the recent lockdown) putting in place a continuous chronological and logistic shift.
Emphasizing such orientation is the presence in the exhibition spaces of plaster casts, wax, resin of everyday objects which, coming from the artist's studio, testify to the plant atlas, the natural history museum that constitutes his personal wunderkammer from which he constantly draws inspiration. The coloring that covers them is a personal reference. In fact, it evokes Oreian’s blood, which, after being centrifuged, has three different chromatic bands: a carmine red, a milky white and an ocher yellow. Painting small artifacts with these colors represents for the artist a way to symbolically appropriate their history and translate them into a sort of self-portraits, confirming the continuous thematic and chronological shift that distinguishes his creative act, always fluid and beyond the contingent or chronicle data.
With today's exhibition, Oreian continues its reflection on the value of images in the era of globalization and virtual reality which, having fallen out of control and devoid of rules, risks losing its original semantic value and, consequently, any reference to its cultural and social identity. This is a procedure that confirms the universal structure of its operational progress, where the current element is only a starting point for a broader recognition of reality.
NOVO is the project space of Eduardo Secci focused on artistic experimentation and contemporary media, apart from the main gallery. It was born out in 2021 of the necessity for a dialogue between art and the languages of new contemporary. NOVO functions as an incubator of ideas encouraging the work of young artists and their future developments.
Eduardo Secci is an Italian gallery founded in 2013 in Florence with a second location in Milan from June 2021. Both spaces present a double program featuring the exhibitions of the main gallery and experimental works by young artists at the project space NOVO.
NOVO Milano
limone, limone - Radu Oreian
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
From October 8 to November 27, 2021
Eduardo Secci Milano
Acustica - Alfredo Pirri
Curated by Laura Cherubini
From October 8 to November 27, 2021
Via Zenale 3, Milan, Italy
Opening: Friday, October 8, 2021, 4:00 - 9:00 pm
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
+39 02 38248728 / milano@eduardosecci.com
NOVO Firenze
Sfiorare Fantasmi - Bea Bonafini
Curated by Edoardo Monti
From September 9 to November 6, 2021
Eduardo Secci Firenze
Le contraddizioni della fragilità
Diana Al-Hadid, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, José Carlos Martinat, Matthew Ritchie
Curated by Angel Moya Garcia
From September 9 to November 6, 2021
Piazza Goldoni 2, Florence, Italy
Opening: Thursday, September 9, 2021, 4:00 - 8:00 pm
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
+39 055 661356 / firenze@eduardosecci.com
www.novo.ooo / hello@novo.ooo
Instagram: @novo_projects / Facebook: @NOVOprojects
www.eduardosecci.com / gallery@eduardosecci.com
Instagram - Facebook: @eduardoseccicontemporary
Exhibition walkthroughs videos with artists and curators:
www.novo.ooo/exhibitions - www.eduardosecci.com/exhibitions
Press Office: THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
limone, limone
Radu Oreian
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
NOVO
Eduardo Secci
Milan, from October 8 to November 27, 2021
Opening: Friday, October 8, 4:00 - 9:00 pm
Exhibition walkthrough video with the artist
Exhibition view, limone, limone, Radu Oreian, NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano, 2021, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
In Milan from October 8 to November 27, 2021, Eduardo Secci’s project space NOVO is pleased to present the solo show “limone, limone” of Radu Oreian curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto.
The exhibited body of works, including the latest large- and small-scale paintings, with which the Romanian artist continues the meditation begun on the occasion of the previous exhibitions in Florence (Eduardo Secci, 2021) and Rome (La Fondazione, 2020).
As Pier Paolo Pancotto writes in his curatorial text, “(…) also, from an iconographic point of view, the works conceived for the Milan exhibition open Oreian's vocabulary to new visual opportunities. Intellectual memory (Renaissance painting admired in Pompeii and Rome, or the Etruscan learned in Tarquinia, the calligraphy of the ancient East), which has always been accompanied by the physical one (the reference to the bowels of one's body, to one's skin or the biological liquids), seems to find more and more space in the artist's creative exercise by implementing it with new atmospheres. In particular, various references to antiquity emerge on the canvas with the strength of distant memories, weak in the visual definition but intense from an emotional point of view. Thus, unexpected narrative passages appear among the organic textures of color, according to an original and personal interpretation of the artist’s surrealist syntax. (...) ".
Radu Oreian's practice is inspired by drawing and painting classical techniques exploring how history, ancient myths and archives shape our society, and understanding of humanity. The common thread, running through and connecting his works, is represented by a new meditative visual imprint creation with a particular density that seems to exist in a pulsating state of tension and relaxation.
The exhibition walkthrough video with the artist will be online at www.novo.ooo/exhibitions.
Exhibition view, limone, limone, Radu Oreian, NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano, 2021, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Radu Oreian (1984, Târnăveni, Romania) lived and works in France. She studied at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca (2002) and at the Bucharest National University of Art (2007).
His works have been exhibited at La Fondazione in Roma (2020), SVIT Gallery in Prague (2020), Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris (2019), Plan B Foundation in Cluj-Napoca (2019), Galerie Isa in Mumbai (2018), Gallery Nosco in Marseille (2017), Nicodim Gallery in Bucharest (2017), MeetFactory in Prague (2016).
Pier Paolo Pancotto is an art critic and historian, curator of La Fondazione in Rome and of the Art Club exhibition program at Villa Medici - Académie de Francia in Roma.
limone, limone
Radu Oreian
Curatorial Essay by Pier Paolo Pancotto
After his experiences in Rome and Florence, Radu Oreian (Târnăveni, 1984) today presents the latest research results in Milan. It is a selection of small and large paintings created for the occasion which, in addition to confirming its poetics, somehow enrich its vocabulary by integrating it with new, unexpected nuances, both from a technical and compositional perspective.
His highly expressive painting, made of dense material with plastic strokes (thanks to the technique with which it is applied on the surface, layered and kneaded with the tip of a brush), lights up, in today's case, even with new investigations, in particular on the variation of colors. Proof of this is, for example, the canvas Limone, lemon (2021), hence the title of the exhibition, created by drawing inspiration from the observation of two lemons stored in the refrigerator at home during the recent lockdown and left to their disintegration process. Similarly, Anemones or Marguerites (2021) are characterized by a wide chromatic range that corresponds to that linked to the seasonal and typological changes of the flowers portrayed and that the artist has examined and memorized over time. Or, Gothic tornado II (2021), of considerable size, where sudden timbral gashes break the tonal exercise.
Also, from an iconographic point of view, the works conceived for the Milan exhibition open Oreian's vocabulary to new visual opportunities. Intellectual memory (Renaissance painting admired in Pompeii and Rome, or the Etruscan learned in Tarquinia, the calligraphy of the ancient East), which has always been accompanied by the physical one (the reference to the bowels of one's body, to one's skin or the biological liquids), seems to find more and more space in the artist's creative exercise by implementing it with new atmospheres. In particular, various references to antiquity emerge on the canvas with the strength of distant memories, weak in the visual definition but intense from an emotional point of view. Thus, unexpected narrative passages emerge among the organic textures of color, according to an original and personal interpretation of the artist's surrealist syntax. For example, portions of the so-called Sappho, I AD, coming from the site of Pompeii and today at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, can be recognized, a girl richly dressed up with a gold net on her hair and large earrings (L'androgyne, 2021). Also from Pompeii, for example from the House of the Faun, or more generally from ancient painting (such as that appreciated at the National Roman Museum in Rome where he often returns to admire the nymphaeum of the Villa di Livia at Prima Porta, 1st century AD) come satyrs, nymphs (Reverie with satyr and nymph, 2021), plants, flowers, fruits, animals. To the same context belong marine or aquatic representations that Oreian places in relation to similar contemporary images (for example, the modern fountain placed in front of his studio and carefully observed during the recent lockdown) putting in place a continuous chronological and logistic shift.
Emphasizing such orientation is the presence in the exhibition spaces of plaster casts, wax, resin of everyday objects which, coming from the artist's studio, testify to the plant atlas, the natural history museum that constitutes his personal wunderkammer from which he constantly draws inspiration. The coloring that covers them is a personal reference. In fact, it evokes Oreian’s blood, which, after being centrifuged, has three different chromatic bands: a carmine red, a milky white and an ocher yellow. Painting small artifacts with these colors represents for the artist a way to symbolically appropriate their history and translate them into a sort of self-portraits, confirming the continuous thematic and chronological shift that distinguishes his creative act, always fluid and beyond the contingent or chronicle data.
With today's exhibition, Oreian continues its reflection on the value of images in the era of globalization and virtual reality which, having fallen out of control and devoid of rules, risks losing its original semantic value and, consequently, any reference to its cultural and social identity. This is a procedure that confirms the universal structure of its operational progress, where the current element is only a starting point for a broader recognition of reality.
NOVO is the project space of Eduardo Secci focused on artistic experimentation and contemporary media, apart from the main gallery. It was born out in 2021 of the necessity for a dialogue between art and the languages of new contemporary. NOVO functions as an incubator of ideas encouraging the work of young artists and their future developments.
Eduardo Secci is an Italian gallery founded in 2013 in Florence with a second location in Milan from June 2021. Both spaces present a double program featuring the exhibitions of the main gallery and experimental works by young artists at the project space NOVO.
NOVO Milano
limone, limone - Radu Oreian
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
From October 8 to November 27, 2021
Eduardo Secci Milano
Acustica - Alfredo Pirri
Curated by Laura Cherubini
From October 8 to November 27, 2021
Via Zenale 3, Milan, Italy
Opening: Friday, October 8, 2021, 4:00 - 9:00 pm
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
+39 02 38248728 / milano@eduardosecci.com
NOVO Firenze
Sfiorare Fantasmi - Bea Bonafini
Curated by Edoardo Monti
From September 9 to November 6, 2021
Eduardo Secci Firenze
Le contraddizioni della fragilità
Diana Al-Hadid, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, José Carlos Martinat, Matthew Ritchie
Curated by Angel Moya Garcia
From September 9 to November 6, 2021
Piazza Goldoni 2, Florence, Italy
Opening: Thursday, September 9, 2021, 4:00 - 8:00 pm
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
+39 055 661356 / firenze@eduardosecci.com
www.novo.ooo / hello@novo.ooo
Instagram: @novo_projects / Facebook: @NOVOprojects
www.eduardosecci.com / gallery@eduardosecci.com
Instagram - Facebook: @eduardoseccicontemporary
Exhibition walkthroughs videos with artists and curators:
www.novo.ooo/exhibitions - www.eduardosecci.com/exhibitions
Press Office: THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
