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Simvlacrvm: Roman Tolici

Past exhibition
8 October - 14 November 2015
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Simvlacrvm, Roman Tolici

The exhibition is curated by the Oxford-trained, Swiss-based art critic Simon Hewitt, a regular contributor to The Art Newspaper, Art + Auction and The Huffington Post.

Many artists, after achieving success, stick to the style that has brought them it. Not Tolici. Although his brushwork retains its Ingresque precision, now with an even defter touch, his vision has morphed from photo-realist to surrealist. It is impossible to explain the eleven paintings in SIMVLACRVM in rational fashion.

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Works
  • There Is No Future 2015 Oil On Canvas 80X60Cm
  • There Is No Heart 2015 Oil On Canvas 100X130Cm
  • There Is No Death 2014 Oil On Canvas 48X59Cm
  • There Is No Simulacrum 2015 Oil On Canvas 242X450Cm
  • There Is No Path 2015 Oil On Canvas 100X130Cm
  • There Is No Sign 2014 Oil On Canvas 150X242Cm
  • There Is No Love 2015 Oil On Canvas 242X150Cm
  • There Is No Hope 2014 Oil On Canvas 242X150Cm
  • There Is No Truth 2015 Oil On Canvas 100X130Cm
  • There Is No Past 2015 Oil On Canvas 59X48Cm
  • There Is No Time 2015 Oil On Canvas 242X150Cm
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Press release

Mobius announces its grand opening with SIMVLACRVM, a solo exhibition of new works by the Romanian artist Roman Tolici, curated by Simon Hewitt. The exhibition is on display from October 8th through November 14th, 2015.

The exhibition is curated by the Oxford-trained, Swiss-based art critic Simon Hewitt, a regular contributor to The Art Newspaper, Art + Auction and The Huffington Post.

Many artists, after achieving success, stick to the style that has brought them it. Not Tolici. Although his brushwork retains its Ingresque precision, now with an even defter touch, his vision has morphed from photo-realist to surrealist. It is impossible to explain the eleven paintings in SIMVLACRVM in rational fashion.

They come in different sizes and formats - some large, some small; some vertical, some horizontal; one can even hang at a diagonal. There is humour, irony, hope, hopelessness, magnificent painting and neo-Vorticist spatial awareness. Some canvases are busy, others almost empty. The underlying message? You tell me. Each work creates a world of its own. These paintings exist to be absorbed.

I first saw his works in 2008 at Bucharest's MNAC: a vast, Ceaușescian space where paintings can easily lose themselves. Tolici's paintings (dominated by his Park series) occupied it and my mind.

Their understated poetry, photographic realism and pursuit of mundane subjects made me think of the great Russian Non-Conformist Semyon Faibisovich. But, underpinned by a strong horizontal emphasis, Tolici panned out from Faibisovich close-up to reveal the bigger picture - eschewing Faibisovich's attempts to coat mundanity in poetic blur.

It came as no surprise to learn that Tolici had graduated in Graphic Art. His technique is razor-sharp. (Simion Hewitt, curator)

Publications
  • ROMAN TOLICI

    ROMAN TOLICI

    2016 Artist Book 260 pages
    Publisher: Pandora M, in partnership with Mobius Gallery
    ISBN: 978-606-8780-80-1
    Dimensions: 23 x 28.5 cm
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