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These paintings act as re-combinatory windows. Stylistically speaking it’s about subway freezine aesthetics, popneodada, infrared vision, downtown situationism, Pacific Guadalajara Vision – sea resort thirdworldism, billboard serialism, Naboo Neo-Byzantinism, global relaxation in blue with sun-tanned gestaltism, mariachi op art with a hammock attitude, Romanian Neo-Mexicanism and German Neo-Expressionism, applied on a sudden cargo-cult mood. These works deal with the conceptual and visual remixes which are usually used to recollect reality. (Text: STEFAN TIRON; GRAND PRIX REMIX exhibition catalog. Grand Prix Remix (Visual Shampoo Consumer Product _ mid city shower version), curator Stefan Tiron, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Etaj 3/4 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, 2004.)
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GRAND PRIX REMIX Visual Shampoo Consumer Product – mid city shower version.
A compilation of cityscapes by NICOLAE COMANESCU
This is an exhibition with cityscapes and about common city trademarks.
It is an exhibition with paintings literally resulting out of a mix of different city perspectives. The perspectives of the city dweller such as you and me, of Nicolae Comanescu the city artist, of everybody who enjoys an active live in the middle of a modern metropolis such as Bucharest, New York, London, Berlin or Paris.
We have always painted, bought, exhibited paintings with city-inspired subjects or city-forged ideas; in fact it is impossible not to notice or depict the presence of our immediate architectural surroundings. Still, this time Nicolae Comanescu creates a kaleidoscopic urban mix uniting inside a single frame the actual and the past city, the cinematic and the future city. Nicolae’s exhibition is part of a larger trend that identifies the city as the major influence in image-production.
Text: STEFAN TIRON
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We invest in our daily life in the city that surrounds us, while we help create its outer signs – neon signs, huge advertising billboards and lettered messages announcing new trends, labels and popular icons. The city is more than a background while we go about our daily job routines, while we invest into our future prosperity. The city abounds in many shapes and colors and inspires its citizens with its ever-expanding energies. Inside the city art has become concrete reality; architectural blueprints, constructive ideas are shaped into visible, tangible, habitable bureau’s, flats, homes, hotels and cinema’s. Inside the city art has rediscovered its entertainment value.
Nicolae Comanescu’s paintings exhibit the omnipresence of the city and the need for its facilities and modern delights. The biggest and heaviest entertainment producers such as the cinema and the video game industry also proclaim the presence of the city; the place where the film studio’s and the actor’s homes are at, the place where the postproduction lab and game designers daily universe is based. It is beyond all a world familiar to all of us. A place so familiar that we feel it’s natural to see it in our homes, in our working places and on our screens.
Mid-life crisis
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