Nicolae Comanescu
In the truest sense of the words, the Romanian artist, 39, produces art from the dusty rubble of his home city.
Traditionalists rely on oil paints, crayon, charcoals and acrylics. Nicolae Comanescu relied on these as well in his earlier series of paintings
Wrong Paintings,
Grand Prix Remix and
Beach Culture in Bercsenyi, in which he represents the hyperactivity of the media.
Now however the artist from Romania, born in 1968, paints with dust.
In the attempt to capture his hometown of Bucharest using pictures, Comanescu transforms the powdery ruins of communism, the stifling material of a favoured and impressive city, into dust to produce emulations of his area which are stamped with photographic precision: deserted streets, carriages and parks not only become objects of his artistic eye but also metaphors of the dusty everyday life of everyone living in Bucharest.
His exhibition ‘Dust 2.0’ is, according to the artist, not randomly just about the use of dust. It is about the matter rich in information, which reflects both subtly and strikingly the past and present of Bucharest at the same time.
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