Mihai Nicodim
Gallery SERBAN SAVU UNIMPORTANT
STORIES
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 5, 6 - 8 PM
Exhibition Dates: June
5 - July 10, 2010
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Mihai Nicodim Gallery is pleased to present „Unimportant
Stories”, the second solo show
in the gallery of the Romanian artist
Serban Savu.
Born in 1978, Serban Savu is part of a group of artists from
Cluj, Transylvania, schooled
in the tradition of Social Realism, who grew up
during the fall of the Communist regime
and lives and works in Romania as it
transitions into a free-market economy.
“Unimportant stories”
opens a window into the lives of present-day Romanians, depicting
the
day-to-day routine of men and women in a post-Communist era, where, despite the
history’s lingering narrative, there is steadfast desire to survive
and make the best of an
existence perpetually at the brink.
Serban Savu
decorates his quiet grassy landscapes with vestiges of the former
Communist-era architecture – apartment buildings, cement fixtures,
abandoned concrete
blocks and railroad tracks. Curtains of grey or blue sky
attempt to darken or lighten the
scenes. In the middle ground, the artist
places figures, who, given their small size in
relation to the canvas, seem
hemmed in by their surroundings. The painterly gesture of
obscuring their
faces communicates the anonymity of their existence and their
marginalization and impotence within the gears of a larger sociopolitical
machine.
Serban Savu has shown in “Cluj Connection” at Haunch of
Venison, “Expanded Painting
2” at the Prague Biennale 3, 2007,
Mihai Nicodim Gallery in 2007, at David Nolan, NY in
2009, “Staging
the Grey” at Prague Biennale 4, 2009, Plan B, Berlin in 2009 and in
“Size
Matter: XS” at Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
NY (traveled to Knoxville
Museum). In September 2010, he will be featured in
“After the Fall” curated by Marc
Straus for HVCCA, NY.
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