Eclipse : Andrei Gamarț
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Eclipse
2017
oil on canvas
45 x 35 cm
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Blindness
2017-2018
oil on canvas
228 x 200 cm
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Memory
2020
oil on linen
40 x 35 cm
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Intention
2002
oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm
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The Fall 2
2019
oil on canvas
41 x 33 cm
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Mirror 1
2020
oil on canvas
70 x 55 cm
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Sunset I
2020
oil on linen
40 x 35 cm
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The Sun
2019
oil on canvas
24 x 22 cm
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Closer
2020
oil on linen
160 x 160 cm
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The Wave 3
2020
oil on canvas
25 x 35 cm
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Cloud
2002
oil on canvas
24 x 16 cm
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Two Moons
2020
oil on linen
40 x 30 cm
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The Wave 2
2020
oil on canvas
70 x 90 cm
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The House on the Other Side, 2019, oil on canvas, 35 x 27 cm
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The Wave 1, oil on canvas, 110 x 150 cm
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The Window 1
2020
oil on canvas
200 x 150 cm
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Window 2
2020
oil on linen
100 x 85 cm
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#1 From Blindness Series
2019
oil on canvas
75 x 65 cm
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Races
2020
oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm
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Explosion
2020
oil on linen
60 x 50 cm
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Distance
2020
oil on canvas
24 x 18 cm
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Life Form 2
2019
oil on canvas
45 x 40 cm
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Another Dream
2019
oil on canvas
30 x 25 cm
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Life Form. Study After Rembrandt
2020
oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm
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Weak and Strong
2019
oil on canvas
45 x 42 cm
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The Beholder
2019
oil on linen
160 x 150 cm
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The Right Hand
2019
oil on canvas
24 x 22 cm
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Sunset 2
2020
oil, on linen
35 x 40 cm
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Mirror 2
2020
oil on canvas
70 x 55 cm
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The Fall 1
2019
oil on canvas
41 x 33 cm
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Tired Man
2020
oil on linen
40 x 30 cm
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Life Form 3
2019
oil on canvas
40 x 34 cm
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The Passing
2020
oil on linen
50 x 65 cm
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That Tree That Crashes in the Morning
2019
oil on canvas
68 x 65 cm
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Something That Only Happens Once
2019
oil on linen
50 x 45 cm
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Vertigo
2019
oil on linen
240 x 170 cm
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The Blind Leading the Blind
2019
oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
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Moon Phases
2020
oil on canva
27 x 40 cm
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Splitting Beauty
2019
oil on canvas
45 x 40 cm
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The Encounter
2020
oil on canvas
42 x 36 cm
The Eclipse series is the result of the artist’s ample exploration of the relationship built between memory – which is an ongoing process of both the individual, as a unit, and humanity, as a collective being – and light, seen as the primary matter which continues to exist in a constant state of oblivion.
Mobius Gallery is pleased to present ECLIPSE, a solo exhibition bringing together the most recent body of works created by Andrei Gamarț between 2017 and 2020.
The exhibition is on display from January 29th to March 20th and may be visited from Wednesday to Saturday, between 2 pm and 8 pm.
Eclipse is a journey into a world where light's memory becomes an instrument for translating reality, Andrei Gamarț introducing another layer into the architecture of his exhibition – a transparent veil installation through which he obturates (once more) the painted images, thus mediating an intimate experience with the source of light. Behind the veil, there are details of an almost tangible world – branches and leaves of trees which hardly allow the passing of a few rays of sunshine (Window, 2020), clouds with primordial shadows (Vertigo, 2019), pieces of pure, dazzling light (#1 and #2, both from the series Blindness, 2019), a series of visions and fragments of reality with an over-exposure of images in a way that turns the whole experience into an outline, a container of light and, at the same time, a witness to its own materiality.
Showcasing works created between 2017 and 2020, the exhibition seems to be the peak of an artistic process in research of time, memory and space through a Bergsonian approach. The projects Shitfting Presence (2013) and This Garden Was Enchanted (2014) seem to be stages of this reference as experiensis of the matter that no longer has a memory, a matter that forgets itself, retrieving its essence directly from light. Even the work that gives the name of the exhibition, Eclipse, painted in 2017, doubled from the theme perspective by the larger work, Blindness, from 2018, refers to the lack of light, the (im)possibility of a life lived in negative photography.
Recent developments, to some extent foreing to his previous projects, such as the small canvases and the warm color palette, give a note of fragility to a personal revelation, generously shared by the artist with the rest of the world. The works from the Eclipse project lose their strange tension of some paintings made before 2017, like a deep breath after an assiduous search, like the ease of finding some edifying philosophical answers, a state even more revealing during this last year of pandemic living.
The poet Andrei Gamarț, “even if he is a painter”, paraphrasing the artist himself, leads us in a painting-poetry in which the shadow and the trace are positioned inside the light, and not in its opposite. His paintings are a reference to subconscious, subliminal personal memories, to what we call mitochondrial memory, a beginning and an end alike, where the viewer’s reaction is visceral: you want to take away your eyes, but you find it impossible to do so.
(Antigona Silvia Rogozea, curator)
Andrei Gamarț (b. 1980, Republic of Moldova) lives and works in Bucharest. He is an artist educated in Chișinău, who is constantly exploring other creative fields such as poetry and literature. His paintings, drawings, and graphic works reveal fractures of a world that seems suspended in-between time and space. The major themes populating this tenebrous and sometimes surreal “counter-reality” tackle the relation between memory and matter, innocence and error.
This project is part of the program aiming to support art galleries in Bucharest initiated by the Capital City Hall through the General Directorate of Landscape, Architecture and Public Monuments, and the Expo Arte Cultural Center.