Too often life has got in store for us tragic surprises, we'd rather not have.
Just a few days ago I got an email from my friend Dragos Olea in Romania telling me about an exhibition by Romanian artist Ioana Nemes in a gallery in New York, where she was completing a residency.
Dragos’ email was followed by more optimistic news from the Romanian Cultural Institute that approved a journalist grant I applied to that consisted in carrying out a project with the artists revolving around the Rozalb de Mura team, Ioana included. I thought there would have been all the time to report about these two events, but a rather cruel destiny got in the way since I've just received an email from Dragos telling me Ioana suddenly died in New York.
Born in 1979 in Bucharest where she lived and worked, Ioana first graduated in Physical Education & Sports and then focused on Fine Arts. A former professional handball player, she turned artist after a serious knee accident.
Her work has been exhibited at different art events and galleries in Vienna, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Prague and Bucharest. In 2007 she was the recipient of the Future of Europe Art Prize from Galerie Für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, and she was currently getting ready to curate the group show “Who Am I to Feel So Free: Clothing as Site for Negotiation” (15th December 2011-19th February 2012) at Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest.
“Times Colliding” (on until May 7), Ioana's latest project at New York-based Art in General wasn’t actually her first American solo exhibition since she had already showcased her work in the States in 2009.
The new exhibition moved from a long-term project Ioana had just completed that analysed the nature of chronology and the issue of time passing, "Monthly Evaluations" (2005-10), based on recording her daily thoughts and experiences from the physical, emotional, intellectual and financial point of view.
The exhibition at Art in General centres on a large-scale sculpture representing the physical manifestation of a time collision between “Saturday 22.09.2007 (1)”, a pale grey day inscribed with the words, “Freedom as another form of tyranny, as another wonderful cage”, cutting into “Monday 12.04.2010 (=)”, conceived as a red day entitled “In sorrow all the facial muscles relax”.
The artist created in this way a physical relationship between the two days and time and space, analysing themes such as time disruption and the linear narrative conventionally measured as past, present, and future.
Ioana will be greatly missed by her family and friends who are currently looking for support to bring her body back to Romania (to help, please email Dragos Olea at [email protected]).
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