Expozitia  “Permanentul sentiment de vinovatie” (“Constant Feeling of Guilt”) marcheaza pentru prima data colaborarea dintre artistii Mircea Suciu si Gin, pictor si fotograf. Fotografiile expuse sunt rezultatul inscenarii subiectelor din picturile lui Mircea Suciu, care la randul lor au ca sursa de inspiratie fotografii din arhivele publicitare ale anilor ‘50 – ‘60.  

Desi claritatea fotografiilor este dusa la extrem, fiind vizibile chiar si cele mai mici detalii, personajul este unul generic, emblematic pentru o stare de spirit, nu intereseaza ca individualitate. Exercitiul executat de “eroul” imaginilor, rutina spalatului, surprinde un moment de intimitate al unui personaj coplesit de propria interioritate. Vestimentatia neutra a personajului si fundalul gri, fara nici un accident vizual, ne directioneaza spre “camera secreta” din mintea unui individ alienat, chinuit de propiile drame, blocat intr-un gest repetitiv de autopurificare. Seria imaginilor nu ilustreaza narativ o situatie, ci accentueaza starea de angoasa.

Experimentul celor doi artisti parcurge un traseu de la fotografia publicitara la pictura si inapoi la fotografie, ocolind realitatea si in acelasi timp folosindu-se de ea, distiland imaginile si recompunandu-le intr-un mod esentializat, fiind astfel posibil un control total asupra luminii, culorii, compozitiei sau atmosferei. Rezultatul acestui complicat proces de creatie, fotografiile din expozitie, pastreaza insa ambiguitatea semnificatiei, oferind privitorului mai multe posibilitati de citire. 

 

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The exhibition “Constant Feeling of Guilt” marks for the first time the collaboration between the artists Mircea Suciu and Gin, painter and photographer. The exhibited photographs are the result of setting up the subjects of Mircea Suciu’s paintings, which in turn have as a starting point photographs from the advertising archives from the ’50s and ‘60s.

Despite the extreme sharpness of the photographs, allowing the viewer to see even the minutest details, the character is a generic one, symbolic for a state of mind, his individuality being of no importance. The action of the “hero” of the images, the washing routine, catches a glimpse of an intimate moment of someone overwhelmed by his own interiority. The neutral clothing and the gray background, with no visual interruption, lead us to the “secret room” from the mind of an alienated individual, tormented by his own demons, stuck in a repetitive gesture of self-purification. The series of works do no narrate a story, but stress the state of anguish.

The experiment of the two artists goes all the way from advertising photography to painting and back to photography, avoiding the reality and making use of it at the same time, decomposing the images and recomposing them to the essence, allowing a total control of the light, colour, composition and atmosphere. The result of this complicated process of creation, the photographs from the exhibition, retains the ambiguity of meaning, giving the viewer several reading options.

 

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