Soft Inscriptions: corpuri, peisaje, vise
AMI AMALIA X CODRUȚA CERNEA
20 - 25 mai
Ami Amalia Flagship Store | Strada Thomas Masaryk 2
Design expoziție: Anda Zota & Elena Viziteu / ae02.architects
Soft Inscriptions este o imersiune într-un univers artistic în care memoria corporală și peisajele interioare se transformă în imagini și materiale ce ating pielea – nu doar la suprafață, ci și în profunzime.
Lucrările artistei Codruța Cernea explorează fragilitatea umană, insomnia, relația cu maternitatea, exilul, adaptarea și nostalgia, teme care capătă o dimensiune nouă în contact cu textura fină a creațiilor Ami Amalia. Puterea întâlnirii dintre imagine și fibră stă în modul în care cele două lumi se traduc una pe cealaltă, infuzându-și reciproc corporalitate și memorie: arta devine purtabilă, iar obiectele devin prelungiri subtile ale unor trăiri adânc personale.
Într-un oraș adesea prea dur, această colaborare deschide o insulă temporară – o insulă fantomă în care fragmente de vis, de piele și de memorie se întâlnesc. O invitație nu doar de a purta un obiect, ci de a locui o stare. De a îmbrăca o poveste.
Soft Inscriptions: bodies, landscapes, dreams
AMI AMALIA X CODRUȚA CERNEA
May 20 - 25
Ami Amalia Flagship Store | 2 Thomas Masaryk Street
Exhibition design: Anda Zota & Elena Viziteu / ae02.architects
Soft Inscriptions is an immersion into an artistic universe where bodily memory and inner landscapes are transformed into images and materials that touch the skin - not only on the surface, but on a deeper level.
Codruța Cernea's works explore human fragility, insomnia, the relationship with motherhood, exile, adaptation, and nostalgia - themes that gain new dimension in contact with the fine texture of Ami Amalia’s creations. The powerful encounter between image and fiber lies in how these two worlds translate into one another, mutually infusing corporeality and memory: art becomes wearable, and objects become subtle extensions of deeply personal experiences.
In a city often too harsh, this collaboration opens up a temporary island—a phantom island where fragments of dreams, skin, and memory meet. An invitation not just to wear an object, but to inhabit a mood. To wrap in a story.
MELANCHOLIA OF LIVING IN THE AFTERNOON OF TIME
Sector 1 Gallery, Bucharest
08.05 - 21.06.2025
Artists: Codruța Cernea, Roberta Curcă, Dragoș Bădiță, Andrei Nuțu
With the thoughtful care and guidance of Norbert Filep.
CC: I revisited Seasons. It feels like a bridge between the past and the present/future. There are references to the history of painting, filtered through this new tool with its glitches. It captures the moment well — the moment we’re living through now. I was wondering why you started with Winter? Was there a specific reason?
DB: Maybe because that's how the year begins in our culture. It allowed for the richest transitions — from thaw and the blossoming of life at the start, to stillness and void at the end. It felt like the most natural choice. Winter is closest, symbolically, to nothingness, so it made sense to place it at both ends.
(July 4, 2024)
The exhibition starts from the premise that there are shared elements in the way we interpret the world and the present moment, and that this is reflected in our works — resulting in a natural synergy between them. We had several meetings in each other's studios, where we presented our works, discussed them, and looked for points of intersection. The title, which we all agreed upon, is inspired by George Williamson’s phrase “melancholy of living in the afternoon of time,” which we came across in Damien Rudd’s book Sad Topographies. (October 2024)
O călătorie terapeutică, cel mai nou titlu semnat de filosoful și eseistul Alain de Botton, fondatorul The School of Life, este acum pe site-ul Vellant și în librării.
„Această carte descrie parcursul unei călătorii – de la cădere și colaps la convalescență și recuperare. Ea se dorește a fi atât un ghid practic, cât și o sursă de consolare și prietenie în ceea ce ar putea fi unele dintre cele mai singuratice și angoasante momente ale noastre.”
Alain de Botton
Traducere de Cristina Poterășoiu
Artwork copertă Codruța Cernea
A Therapeutic Journey, the latest title by philosopher and essayist Alain de Botton, founder of The School of Life, is now available on Vellant.ro and in bookstores.
"This book describes the course of a journey – from downfall and collapse to convalescence and recovery. It aims to be both a practical guide and a source of consolation and companionship during what might be some of our loneliest and most distressing moments."
— Alain de Botton
Translated to Romanian by Cristina Poterășoiu
Cover artwork by Codruța Cernea
LENTOS MUSEUM, Linz, Austria
24.01 to 18.05.25
Curator and exhibition concept: Sabine Fellner
Project assistance: Laurenz Fellner
Exhibition design: wienerhalle
The multimedia exhibition ”Touch Nature” showcases international artists and their takes on the devastating political, economic, ecological and humanitarian consequences of the Anthropocene. It becomes quite clear in the process that, in addition to documenting grievances and formulating strategies of resistance, these artists also provide blueprints for utopias.
The economic exploitation of huge tracts of land, rising levels of soil sealing and the global effects of consumerism are addressed alongside the capitalist manipulation of waste. A series of cooperative ventures, some of which are interdisciplinary in character, results in art projects that deal with the global food situation, the spread of epidemics and the consequences of colonialism, aiming at a change of perspective. The exhibition develops encouraging visions of a new relationship between humanity and nature and of an approach to our environment marked by mindfulness and respect.
The exhibition is based on a series of exhibitions of the same name that were shown in twelve of Austria’s Forums of Culture in Europe and the United States between 2021 and 2024. This allowed Austrian artists to enter into a creative dialogue with artists of the host countries. The show at the Lentos presents a summary of this series of exhibitions and supplements it with international works of art. Its roughly 100 artists present a multinational overview of the current engagement with the climate crisis and the destruction of our environment. It is in the spirit of Alexander von Humboldt, a pioneer of ecological thinking, who famously wrote to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1810: “Nature must be felt.”
Works by Uli Aigner, Iris Andraschek, Peter Bartoš, Matei Bejenaru, Julius von Bismarck, Vanja Bučan, Floriama Candea, Laura Codruța Cernea, Adriana Chiruta, Sevda Chkoutova, Larisa Crunțeanu, Mark Dion, Veronika Dirnhofer, Ines Doujak, Anna Dumitriu/Alex May, Latifah Echakhch, Christian Eisenberger, Titanilla Eisenhart, Michael Endlicher, İnci Eviner, Thomas Feuerstein, Andrea Francolino, Dorothee Frank/Ben Fodor, Birgit Graschopf, Nicola Hackl-Haslinger, Maximilian Haidacher, Jitka Hanzlová, Peter Hauenschild, Beáta Hechtová, Edgar Honetschläger, Anaïs Horn, Alfred Hruschka, Barbara Anna Husar/Elmar Bertsch, Gözde İlkin, Nona Inescu, Fatoş İrwen, Tobias Izsó, Maren Jeleff/Klaus Pichler, Sabine Jelinek, Anna Jermolaewa, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Johanna Kandl, Eginhartz Kanter, Anton Kehrer, Kitty Kino, Aurora Király, Alexandra Kontriner, Nina Koželj, David Kranzelbinder, Elena Kristofor, Hans Kupelwieser, Antonio Kutleša, Christiane Löhr, Linda Luse, Haruko Maeda, Péter Mátyási, Claudia Märzendorfer, Katharina Meister, Ferdinand Melichar, Karina Mendreczky, Sylvie de Meurville, Ana Maria Micu, Claire Morgan, Alois Mosbacher, Yvonne Oswald, Monika Pichler, Margot Pilz, PRINZpod, Luisa Rabbia, Julia Reichmayr, Oliver Ressler, Hubert Roithner, Gregor Sailer, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Davor Sanvincenti, Judith Saupper, Hans Schabus, Scheibe & Güntzel, Ramona Schnekenburger, Gabriele Schöne, Martin Schrampf, Claudia Schumann, Marielis Seyler, Milica Simonović, Rebecca Smith, Paul Spendier, Oana Stanciu, Thomas Stimm, Mircea Suciu, Maria Szakats, Adrienn Újházi, Hana Usui, Dan Vezentan, Judith Wagner, Manfred Wakolbinger, Violetta Wakolbinger, Betsy Weis, Nives Widauer, Eva Yurková, Laurent Ziegler/Georg Blaschke
„Experiența de a fi în viață a devenit foarte prețioasă” – interviu de Raisa Beicu în Dilema
Five recent paintings are on the covers of a new edition of Irvin Yalom’s books. Published by Vellant Publishing, the books can be found online and also in Cărturești and other selected bookshops around the country.
Cinci lucrări recente ilustrează coperțile unei reeditări a cărților lui Irwin Yalom. Publicate de editura Vellant, cărțile sunt disponibile online și în rețeaua librăriilor Cărturești, precum și în alte librării din țară.
Biophilia painting is included in Why Have There Been No Great Eastern Women Artists? online exhibition, curated by Eszter Csillag for ANS AZURA.
The exhibition can be seen on ansazura.com.
Lucrarea Biophilia este inclusă în expoziția Why Have There Been No Great Eastern Women Artists?, curatoriată de Eszter Csillag pentru ANS AZURA.
Expoziția poate fi văzută online, pe site-ul ansazura.com.
AN INVINCIBLE SUMMER
An extensive monograph featuring paintings from 2008-2021 with an essay by Erwin Kessler.
Publisher: Mobius Gallery
Design: Larisa Sitar
Dimensions: 27 x 20 cm / Pages: 188
Bucharest 2021
Guided by the talented host, Andreea Vrabie, I was able to tell a story about past expectations and present dilemmas, in Pe Bune #52 podcast by DoR magazine.
Ghidată de talentata Andreea Vrabie, am reușit să articulez o poveste despre așteptări din trecut și dilemele prezentului, în podcastul Pe bune #52, produs de revista Dor.