Andrei Gamarț: Chimera

ANDREI GAMARȚ: CHIMERA
February 26 - April 4, 2026

 

Opening reception: Thursday, February 26, 2026, at 6:00 PM
Address: MOBIUS GALLERY, Piața Amzei 13, Bucharest

 

Between 1911 and 1912, Rainer Maria Rilke spent seven months at the castle of Duino, near Trieste, in a kind of golden self-isolation, during which he wrote his most important work, Duino Elegies. In it, he states "Jeder Engel ist schrecklich", meaning "every angel is terrifying." I offer you this statement as a first and essential key to reading Andrei Gamarț’s work.

His works are often populated by figures, frequently female, who manage to evoke the sensation of apparitions, fantastical yet recognizable creatures of a kind of miraculous hallucination. They are beings with the aura of a chimera, testing the elasticity of perception in the act of interpretation. They are or may be real, if we wish them to be; they are or may be pure fantasy, if that is our choice. Divine entities confronting us with a terrifying beauty, floating in a diaphanous light, suspended between two moments.

The works in the exhibition Chimera are constructed from elements extracted from the chaos of our everyday lives, all energized by an electric mortar that grants them the value of the fantastic, precisely when we find ourselves astonished by things we know but have ceased to notice. This is what Andrei does: he amplifies, augments, offers a lottery of possibilities. He places on a pedestal certain exhibits, relics of both concrete and mental daily life, and immerses them in a unique light, one we have never seen before, milky, dense, like a lucid dream. - Michele Bressan, excerpt from the curatorial text