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3 March, 6:00 p.m., Multicultural Centre

On Friday, 3 March 2023, starting at 6 p.m. the Multicultural Centre of Transilvania University of Brașov will host the opening of the exhibition SIC TRANSIT... belonging to the artist Suzana Fântânariu and curated by Cristina Simion, also featuring an intervention by the video artist Andrei Cozlac.

Suzana Fântânariu’s exhibition is open to the public until 31 March 2023 and includes two series of recent artworks, namely “Utopian Diaries” (object, mixed media) and “Arborescent Portraits” (drawing), as well as other works representative of her recent creative periods. “Utopian Diaries” are an approach to material and affective recovery, to the artistic reconversion of several fragments of reality with multiple meanings, to the transfer of some relics from the realm of consumption to that of perpetuity. “Arborescent Portraits” are salient drawings through the use of anatomical details partially transformed into vegetal-wooden elements, as well as symbols of the regression, of the Kafkaesque metamorphosis, of the vulnerability of intimate space.

Organized in distinct “chambers” that trace and exploit the topography of the existing space, the exhibition is a journey into a labyrinth imagined by the artist as an immersion in a few of her favourite themes: body, utopia, flight, light, the ephemeral fragility of existence.

Suzana Fântânariu (born 1947) is one of the illustrious and influential visual artists of Romanian contemporary art. For a quarter of a century, she has been a Professor at the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design within the West University of Timișoara, authoring numerous studies and articles about art, and a recently published volume of poetry. Moreover, she has been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by “George Enescu” National University of Arts - Iași. She has had dozens of national and international personal exhibitions, but also participated in hundreds of collective, biennial and triennial exhibitions, creative camps and competitions. She has been awarded the Gold Medal and the Effigy of Permanent Member of UNESCO Vicenza Club at Di Carta/Papermade International Biennale, Schio, Italy (2021), the Grand Prize of the Romanian Artists’ Union (2018), the Grand Prize of the Ministry of Culture in the Republic of Moldova (2014), “Constantin Brâncusi” National Scholarship of Paris (2006), the Excellence Prize of Beijing International Engraving Biennale (2003), the First Prize of Sharjah International Art Biennale, U.A.E. (1997), the Second Prize of Maastricht International Engraving Biennale (1993), the First Prize of the Francophone Countries’ International Biennale of Contemporary Art, held in Paris (1992).

Andrei Cozlac (born 1986) is a video artist. He conducts his activity as a Lecturer dr. at the Faculty of Visual Arts within “George Enescu” National University of Arts - Iași, and as an associated member of the academic teaching personnel within the Media department of the Faculty of Arts in Târgu Mureș. An experimentalist, highly interested in cutting-edge multimedia technologies, he has collaborated on numerous projects of visuals, video-mapping, live projections. He has been a guest artist at international biennials and festivals and was twice awarded the UNITER Prize for video-design. He has collaborated with prestigious visual artists on several interdisciplinary projects, among which the most recent is “Dali’s Moustache" (with Felix Aftene and Lucian Dan Teodorovici), at Brașov International Biennial of Visual Arts (2021), as well as ICR Berlin (2021) and “Macadam” Gallery of ICR Paris (2022).

The opening will be honoured with the presence of Suzana Fântânariu, Cristina Simion and Andrei Cozlac, whose video projection specially designed for this exhibition will be watched, during the event, on the front of the building.

The exhibition can be visited every day, from Monday to Friday, between 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. The entrance is free.