Abandoned Gardens / Grădini abandonate / Verlassene Gärten
genius loci: conceptual and experimental research about exterior and emotional landscape, 1999-2005
works from the series presented e.g. at the group exhibition Liber Studiorum, curator Călin Stegerean, Art Museum Cluj Napoca, 2000/ personal exhibition at the gallery Casa Matei Corvin, University of Art and Design Cluj Napoca, 2005
(examples: photo and collage on handmade paper, 1999)
READING BETWEEN THE LINES
For several months I hired a studio for working with handmade paper and I experimented with gardens that I keep in my memory.
I crafted the paper from various species of plants, with natural pigments, by organic processes and without any chemical agents. Layer upon layer, memories of seedlings each of which acquired shapes and colours from the previous layer and gave birth to new ones. Layers of materials, layers of ideas, layers of perception from which the image was created.
The abandoned gardens within us, they know all that we went trough and cannot hide from. Sooner or later, one way or another, their unexpressed passion will catch up with us
Ich mietete für einige Monate eine Werkstatt zur Herstellung von Büttenpapier und experimentierte mit Gärten, die ich in meiner Erinnerung habe.
Das Papier bereitete ich aus verschiedenen Pflanzenarten durch organische Prozesse, ohne chemische Hilfsmittel. Schicht über Schicht, Erinnerungen an Saatkeime, die jeweils Formen und Farben der vorigen Schicht übernahmen und neue entstehen ließen. Stoffschichten, Gedankenschichten, Wahrnehmungsschichten, aus denen dann das Bild hervorging.
Sie sind die verlassenen Gärten in uns, sie wissen alles was wir erlebt haben, wir können uns vor ihnen nicht verstecken. Früher oder später, in welcher Form auch immer, wird ihre ungelebte Leidenschaft uns einholen.
Am închiriat un atelier de hârtie manuală pentru câteva luni și am experimentat grădini pe care le port în memorie.
Hârtia am preparat-o din specii diferite de plante, cu pigmenţi naturali, prin procese organice şi fără mijloace chimice. Straturi peste straturi, memorii de răsaduri care au preluat de fiecare dată formele şi culorile stratului anterior şi au dat naştere altora noi. Straturi de materii, straturi de gânduri, straturi de percepţii tactile prin care s-a născut imaginea.
Grădinile abandonate din noi, grădini care ştiu tot ce am trăit, grădini de care nu ne putem ascunde. Mai devreme sau mai târziu, într-un fel sau altul, pasiunea lor netrăită ne ajunge din urmă.
(excerpt from the artist's speech at the personal exhibition, gallery Casa Matei Corvin, 2005, original in Romanian)
