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Producer: Nasui collection & gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Febr. 10 – April 20, 2016
Opening and special tours: February 10, 11.00-14.00 and 18.00-21.00
Address: Sos. Bucuresti Nord 15-23, Swan Technology Park, Kingston building, Pipera, Bucharest, Romania
Schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Friday – 12h-14h. All other days and hours: by appointment: please write to info at postmodernism.ro or call (+4) 0730 040 514)
The solo show ”Perpetuum Violence” by Catalin Badarau relates to a better understanding of certain kinds of perpetual violence. Inspired both by particular situations and personal experiences of the artist himself, ”Perpetuum Violence” conceives a larger, general view to this topic.
Violence is part of the human nature. In the history of civilization violence is in perpetuum within people’s existence for centuries. The basic laws of survival in nature are based on permanent crime. In a Darwinistic understanding, the struggles for surviving and perpetuating the species directly depend on transmitting the winner’s genes. On the other hand, violence and crime are significant factors for spawning pity, compassion and also human rights.
The creations of Catalin Badarau are enthused by social topics on contemporary forms of violence as forced labour, new types of migrations and by human feelings of sufferance or alienation.
For many of his artworks, Badarau appoints a human model, a person with physical and psychical disabilities, fact which can also be a key for a better understanding of his art.
As sculptor, Catalin Badarau works in connection to the human body. Carved or moulded in polyurethane or synthetic resins, the parts of the represented human bodies are hung, sunk or laid down on different metal structures. The thick and heavy metal structures create, at all times, a huge impact in relation with the softness of the represented human flesh.
Being self-sustainable, Badarau’s artworks are parts of carefully crafted installations, directly interacting with their environment. Their sculptural approaches deal with the expression of human flesh and body being under pressure, being suspended or submerged into liquids. Their titles invoke situations or feelings of humankind being under siege by the very humans who form it.
Partners: Swan Technology Park, Modernism.ro
Catalin Badarau is an artist living and working in Bucharest, Romania. He holds a PhD in Sculpture and lectures at National Arts University Bucharest. His artworks were exhibited in solo and group shows in Romania, Italy, France and Germany.
Nasui collection & gallery is an independent organization that supports contemporary art and artists from Romania internationally. It presents premium creations of a carefully selected pool of Romanian contemporary artists, within favourable international and national contexts. It promotes, cultural and investment wise, artists who work in contemporary visual arts: painting, sculpture, photography, performance, research and innovation. Nasui collection & gallery opens in 2010 in Bucharest, Romania and co-produces over 60 international projects within prestigious cultural spaces and contexts, some of them being Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2011, Liverpool Biennale 2012 and 2014, Venice Biennale 2013 or Manifesta St. Petersburg 2014.
