Galeria Plan B is pleased to announce the participation at Art Cologne 2021 with works by Marieta Chirulescu and Iulia Nistor.
Iulia Nistor
Iulia Nistor's paintings and spatial interventions work with uncertainty and disorientation as ways of questioning. Painting provides for her a space in which impressions and ideas can be put into question, reformulated, tried out, dismissed. A given is undone in the process of informing and discharging the paintings' surface through negative procedures, subtracting from the image by sanding, scraping and paper pressing. The image becomes clear when the leftover fragments sediment into a ground from which a gesture or a quality can emerge. But the painting remains suspended between being the material record of revisions and a temporal certainty. Her spatial interventions alter an architectural or material aspect of the space, which goes unmentioned in the exhibition itself.
Iulia Nistor, born 1985 in Bucharest, Romania, lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Sao Paulo, Brazil. She graduated from the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and is a PhD candidate in analytic philosophy at the University of Regensburg. Solo exhibitions include: Revenge of the Given, Plan B, Berlin (2019); Two Forward, Three Back, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2019); Eary Poise, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2017); Canary in a coal mine, Plan B, Berlin (2017); Before Interpretation, Galeria Electroputere, Craiova (2015); .../.../..., Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna (2015); (i)... (ii)... (iii)... (iv)..., Aiurart Contemporary Art Space, Bucharest (2014). Group exhibitions include: The 4th Mediterranean Biennale, Sakhnin Valley, Haifa (2021); Secret Wing, Timisoara Art Encounters Biennale 2021, Timisoara (2021); Rethinking the Image of the World—Projects and Sketches, Ianchelevici Museum, La Louviere (2019); Iulia Nistor și Achraf Touloub. Spațiu (Continuare și sfârșit), Rezidența BRD Scena9, Bucharest (2019); After Rubens, Städelmuseum, Frankfurt am Main (2017); Mobile Biennale, Club Electroputere, Moldavia (2017); Gardeners Digest—The Yew, Societas Horti (CCA), Tbilisi (2016); The Real Kiss, JOHAN, Frankfurt am Main (2016); Appearance and Essence, ArtEncounters 1st edition, Timișoara (2015); Preisträgerausstellung, Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna (2014); Escapes: Colony. Endocosmos. Ulysses. Unsent Postcards, Museo Guerra Junqueiro, Porto (2013).
Marieta Chirulescu
'There is a specificity to Marieta Chirulescu's works that's not always easy to parse. At first sight, they convey, elegantly and reservedly, a formal precision that initially suspends the intriguing imagery they deliver. But things get complicated once one tries to pierce through their dense visual fabric in order to arrive at an articulation of what they might be showing and 'doing'. This act of translation poses a challenge, since Chirulescu's paintings are paintings are photographs are paintings are copies are reproductions are originals. The images traverse different modes of the real and the virtual before, eventually, reaching the actual canvas and resting there in their composite, quasi-final form.
Chirulescu's practice started with painting on canvas. The finely layered, translucent backgrounds to her early, sparsely hinted figuration slowly emerged as the actual image in focus, superseding all traces of painted representation. As it turns out, this wasn't the artist's goodbye to representation, but rather her embracing a subjectively detached and yet strangely intimate approach to it—by introducing in her paintings the photographic images she would produce on the scanner glass. She would print these digitally manipulated images onto the support of her choice— mostly on canvas, and sometimes on paper. Other layers of paint could follow.' —(Excerpts from pieces of spaces, exhibition text by Mihaela Chiriac)
Marieta Chirulescu, born 1974 in Sibiu, Romania, lives in Berlin, Germany.
Solo exhibitions include: Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2019); Pale Fire, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2016); CYTWOMBLY CYFONTI, Galeria Fonti, Napoli (2016); Marieta Chirulescu, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen (2014); Ileana, Micky Schubert, Berlin (2013); Marieta Chirulescu, White Cube Bermondsey, London (2011); Marieta Chirulescu, Kunstverein Nürnberg (2011); Werke aus der Sammlung Martin, Neues Museum, Nürnberg (2011); Marieta Chirulescu, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2010); Marieta Chirulescu, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz (2009); Marieta Chirulescu, Projektraum der Temporären Kunsthalle Berlin, (2009).