Alin Bozbiciu
Alin Bozbiciu's works articulate a personal mythology in which reality and imagination merge into magical visual painterly installations. In his elaborate compositions, the artist draws upon references from art history, mythological tropes and theatrical imagery. Making poignant existential statements about the contemporary experience, Alin Bozbiciu articulates a symbolic discourse that goes beyond the boundaries of representation and of figurative painting.
By bringing together representations of angels or other imaginary characters inspired by baroque imagery, along with depictions of human bodies in ritualistic movement, the artist challenges viewers to immerse themselves in an imaginary world with a poetic dimension, in which myth and metaphor prevail. The spontaneity of his pictorial gesture accentuates the dynamic between the soft, restricted color palette, and the vigorous darker colors, offering a versatile and refreshing perspective to the medium of painting.
Alin Bozbiciu lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The young painter is one of the most successful emerging artists from the last wave of the Cluj School of Painting; graduating from the Painting Department of the Cluj University of Art and Design in 2013. In 2017, he participated in the exhibition Life as a User’s Manual, the second edition of the Contemporary Art Biennial Art Encounters, in Timisoara, Romania. In 2018, he had a solo exhibition in Poland, Mimesis: (Re)imagining the Real curated by Maria Rus Bojan and Daria Bojan at Galeria Dworcowa, Wroclaw and participated in the exhibition Time is the Game of Man, the third edition of the summer project Art of the Treasure Hunt in the Chianti region of Italy, launched by Luziah Hennessy, and curated by Kasia Redzis, senior curator at Tate Liverpool. In 2019, he was invited by Mircea Cantor to take part in the group exhibition Chasseur D'Images (Vanatorul de Imagini) at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France. Works in public collections include Musee de la Chasse, Paris and Q Contemporary Collection, Budapest. His works are part of many important private collections across Europe, Asia and South America.
