28. Untitled ("I Can See No Revolution" series)

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28. Untitled ("I Can See No Revolution" series)

Nicolae Comănescu

1968, Pitești

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EUR 1.000 - 1.600

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EUR 1.000

oil on tablecloth, 55 x 70 cm, 55 Ã 70 cm

Research information

The artwork was part of the exhibition "Ordeful, mezanplasul Èi harneala", H'Art Appendix, Bucharest, 2015.

Against an ever-tenser political background, the series of works launched in 2016, "I can see no Revolution", acquires an increasingly current and strong message. In the light of the latest political movements in Eastern Europe, whereby the authoritarian political regimes were overturned and the foundations were laid for democratic regimes, Nicolae Comănescu brings to our attention a subtle message, one of disillusion and disappointment. We can now buy any pair of jeans we want, the store shelves are full, but our purchasing power is lower, we are free to travel anywhere, but most Romanian citizens travel with the desire to find a workplace. Through the artist's works, we become part of a slowly reactive emotional corpus, developed by all those who stayed in this neo-reality of post-1989 Romania. The singular moment of 1989 caught Nicolae Comănescu in the army, fully experiencing the tension, the insecurity, and the violence. This work was part of the eponymous exhibition, where the artist imagined various scenes on the work surfaces, where enforcement authorities instil order, and the uncontrolled forces of the streets bring about chaos. A diffuse interaction, in which we cannot say precisely who is on the side of good and who is on the side of evil.

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