ANA DUŢIA: August 2010

Friday 13 August 2010

Diario de Mexico

"Diario de Mexico". instalation. clothing and barbed wire. 10 m. 2010

Tuesday 10 August 2010

On the mirror in via Battindarno 376, that reflected my image for five months, I’ve put three light bulbs in the colors of the Romanian flag, blue, yellow and red. The mirror has then been moved in seven locations in Bologna, Italy, where Romanians lived or were present, including an orthodox church.

"Luci in Italia". transparent sticker on mirror. (7 x ) 20 x 30 cm. 2010

16 January 2009 - 00:00 GMT

As we can only be aware of our own reality, there are a lot of parallel realities formed. These photographs, taken in the same moment predetermined, bring together the realities of their authors in different locations on the globe. 47 participants contacted through internet. The viewer is the only one capable of an overview, the authors themselves not being aware of the others.

"16 January 2009 - 00:00 GMT". Foto instalation. 12 x 3m. 2010

Saturday 7 August 2010

Autostop

The project is both about the personal experience of hitchhiking and meeting an RFI reporter who told me of an article about the Ceausescu couple. It appears that they hitchhiked during their run from Bucharest in `89, for 23 minutes. I went in the exact same place and hitchhiked for 23 min. The people who stopped received a paper with the explanation.

http://vimeo.com/13921449

Mosaic

"Mask". mosaic. 1m x 1m. 2010

"Bella Venezia". mosaic. 30 x 30 cm. 2010

"Pista ciclabile". mosaic. 25 x 25 cm. 2010

"Patti Smith". mosaic. 30 x 30 cm. 2010

"Corto Maltese". mosaic. 25 x 25 cm, 2010

"Grandma". mosaic. 1m x 1m. 2009

"Fly". mosaic. 1m x 1m. 2008

U-doi

"U2.1". transfer on canvas. 25x 20. 2010

"U2.2". oil and transfer on canvas. 25x 20. 2010

"U2.3". oil on canvas. 25x 20. 2010

"U2.4". oil and acrylic on canvas. 25x 20. 2010

"U2.5". oil and transfer on canvas. 25x 20. 2010

"U2.6". oil, acrylic and transfer on canvas. 25x 20. 2010

"U2.7". oil, acrylic and transfer on canvas. 25x 20. 2010

"U2.8". oil and transfer on canvas. 25x 20. 2010

"U2.9". oil, acrylic and transfer on cavas. 25x 20. 2010

"U2.10". oil, acrylic and transfer on canvas. 25x 20. 2010

Un pezzo di carne

(A piece of meat)

A statistic shows that an average romanian person eats 6.6kg of beaf, 20 kg of chicken and 30 kg of porc in one year.

"Un pezzo di carne". oil on canvas. (3x) 60x 50. 2010

The way home

"The way home". instalation. saw dust, flowers and pines. 12m. 2010

Greetings from Paradise

The urban space can be present, under different ways, in artistic representations. From the actual support on which to draw, the walls and the buildings, up to the documentation character it has, offering the richness of its visual images as a source of inspiration.

The documentation character is the one exploited in the series of canvases “Greetings from Paradise”. The paintings are realized after the typical model of a postcard, a piece of paper, depicting a landscape, or a beautiful image of some carefully chosen spots, sent to our loved ones.

The images chosen for representation are selected from a material that belongs to Western Europe. The fact that the heavenly ground is present makes a connection to the Romanian pre-Revolutionary age, in which these countries, this part of the continent, was seen both as the salvation and the wonderful place that delights the eye, the soul, the ultimate happiness, impossible to reach. The choice of common images, taken in the street, without having any tourist site as o goal or center of attention, takes down both the myth of the postcard and the aura created around these countries that were representing more then a dream for Eastern Europe, they were inaccessible, limiting and restricting movements and communication of the inhabitants of the white continent.