In general I am attracted to the plastic deconstruction of the figurative through pictorial gestures. During the pictorial process I propose to overtake the plastic emotion which confines to chromatic harmony and contrast and I am also interested in organizing the composition through a vectorial system; in balancing or stimulating the composition.
The matter’s utopia of these works comes from urban and social environment, as an impression through which human being feels himself small and fragile as compared to social materialism.
The matter represents for me structure, texture, rugged surfaces, matte and glossy, but also volume, being thus an intention that requires a way out of the pictorial two-dimension.
The diversity of objects found in the industrial and advertising area are taken so that they could change their usefulness and discover another sense, other than the one they had as functionality before being processed; in this way the already manufactured become a source of the plastic processing.
Dan Maciuca
1979 | born in Romania |
2002-06 | Bachelor of Arts & Master degrees in painting, University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca / RO |
2013 | PhD,Cultural Interferences, University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca / RO |
Currently lives and works in Cluj-Napoca / RO
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 | The Path Of The Dragon,online exhibition, Zorzini F. Gallery, Bucharest/ RO |
2020 | Timeout,Patrick Heide Contemporary Art Gallery, London/ GB |
2020 | Online exhibition,Patrick Heide Contemporary Art Gallery, London/ GB |
2017 | Incandescent Space for Incandescent Time, Zorzini Gallery, Bucharest / RO |
2016 | Utopian Proximity, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art / GB |
2014 | Colliding Geometry, Zorzini gallery. Bucharest / RO |
2012 | Nothing To Hide, Bazis Platform, Cluj / RO |
2011 | Common Place, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest/ RO |
2009 | Post Romantic. Post Atomic. Post Rock. Post Socialist Realism., Laika Gallery, Bucharest / RO |
2006 | Critical Temperature, Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca / RO |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 | Cluj Revisited , Gallery Martin Kudlek, Cologne / DE |
2022 | (Re)constructing vision,Art Museum, Cluj – Napoca / RO |
2021 | Network Access,Funnel Contemporary Art, Belgrade / SRB |
2020 | Timeout,Patrick Heide Contemporary Art Gallery, London/ GB |
2019 | The Nightwatch,Art Museum, Bistrita-Nasaud / RO |
2018 | Wild Wild East,Zorzini Gallery, Bucharest / RO |
2018 | Duo Show by Szilard Gaspar and Dan Maciuca,Zorzini Gallery, Bucharest / RO |
2017 | The Inventory,Zorzini Gallery, Bucharest / RO |
2017 | Burning Island,Museum of the City, Belgrade / SRB |
2017 | Breaking Rules, Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca / RO |
2017 | Neon Gallery, Art Academy Wroclaw/ POL |
2015 | Apparence and Essence, Art Encounters, Timisoara/ RO |
2015 | painting-cluj, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne / D |
2014 | The Flesh Of Things, Un-Painting The Romantics, Jecza Gallery, Timisoara / RO |
Hidden Field, Bazis Platform, Pescara / I | |
2013 | MUTATIONS, BAZIS contemporary art space, Berlin / D |
HOTSPOT CLUJ – NEW ROMANIAN ART, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj / DN | |
2012 | Cluj meets Berlin, BAZIS contemporary art space, Berlin / D |
Modern Talking, Art Museum, Cluj- Napoca / RO | |
2011 | The First Ten Years – Radio Galleries, Art Museum, Cluj- Napoca / RO |
2010 | Unusual suspects, Ivan gallery, Bucharest / RO |
PUBLICATIONS
2013 Artpress 400|
2013 Hotspot Cluj New Romanian Art
2012 Arta, nr.6-7
2008 Bazis, 2
2008 Modem, Under Natural Circumstances
2004 Figurama, 04
ART AWARDS
2004 VSTUP, 2 Place, Drawing, Prague