| VLAD NANCĂ | Exhibition 2018 | |
Vlad Nancă (Romanie, 1979) studied Photography and Video, between 2001-2003 at the Art University in Bucharest, Romania, where he continues to live and work. In parallel with his early art practice he was an active participant in the coagulation of the young artist scene in Bucharest. In 2003 – 2004 he hosted the Home Gallery (with exhibitions by Anna Jermolaewa, Ioana Nemes, Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor, Janek Simon, etc), started the “începem” emailing list and the “începem” fanzine and in 2008 – 2009 he founded and coordinated “Scoala Generală”, a free university type of institution. His early works employ political and cultural symbols, often using word-play to evoke nostalgia, referencing Romania and Eastern Europe’s recent history and challenging the social and political climate of their time, but his current interests revolve around (public) space and its use and functions, materialising in sculptures, objects and installations. In 2009, the year marking 20 years since the Romanian revolution, we are witnessing a change in his practice, “sliding from the political towards the poetical”. In his 2015 exhibition From the white square to the white cube he was focusing on an imaginary intersection of the socialist utopia as seen in the works of radical Italian architects Superstudio and the reality of day to day life in socialist Romania in the 1970s. The same retrospective look was also used in Souvenirs from Earth (2015) and more recently in In the Natural Landscape the Human is an Intruder (2018).
Since 2003 Vlad Nancă has exhibited in personal end collective exhibitions at European museums and institutions (Vienna, Bucharest, Brussels, Berlin, Lyon, Luxembourg, Warsaw, Belgrade, Prague, Trento, Bergamo, Bolzano, Cluj Napoca, Sibiu).
