Energiák és visszhangok
Dumitru Gorzo új különleges, vibráló kompozíciójú fest ménysorozata - amit a Brooklynban élő művész szülőhazá jában, Romániában alkotott, egy elhagyatott műteremben – a művész eddigi összetéveszthetetlen kézjegyeit olyan – aránylag felfedezetlen – formai területekre kalauzolja, ami az őt munkája közben körülvevő hegyekhez hasonló. E nagy vásznakat inkább a heves kivitelezés, mintsem a puszta festés hangulata, inkább a később megzabolázott és megfaragott féktelen rétegezésé és az energikus kompozícióé, mint valamié amit elképzeltek, megterveztek, majd kiviteleztek. Bizonyos mértékig általában is ilyen Gorzo alkotói gyakor lata. Akár fest, akár szobrászkodik vagy rajzol, hajlamos ta pintható felületi nyomokat hagyni a folyamatok rétegződését illetően, és engedi a sokszor rögtönzött kezdeti jelöléseikkel, hogy kompozícióit a legkiszámíthatlanabb, absztrakt alakok és furcsa teremtmények szféráiba kalauzolják, ahol szerves torzulatokként, technikailag valószínűtlen építményekként és felszerelésként jelennek meg. Védjegyének számító nyári szőlőzöldje, türkizkékje és finoman deres, lágy rózsaszínje légies háttértorkolatot alkot, amiben mindenféle apróbb, sötéten karcolt szubjektumok rohangálnak összevissza az alig artikulált középszintű háttértartományokban. Előtereiben gyakran ugyanazok a színek expresszív csepp ként vagy kromatikus fröccsentésként jelennek meg, kitöltve holttereket, átszivárogva azokon robusztusabbá, őszintébb kontűrűvé, fizikailag bizarrabbá, mégis valahogy szimpati kusabbá téve az alakokat és a formákat. Új munkáiban Gorzo barlanglakó festői ágenssé válik Guston és Bosch természetfölötti öntudatával. Más szavakkal ez itt a szokásos Gorzo felcsavart hangerővel és energiával. Az ember szinte hallja ahogy a figuratívan idéző visszhangok ide-oda ugrálnak hegyein, völgyein, erdein keresztül. Paul D`Agostino Fordította Marthy Barna
Energie și ecou
Energies & Echoes
Noua serie de picturi a lui Dumitru Gorzo care are o com poziție deosebită și care a fost creată de artistul care trăiește la Brooklyn în România într-un atelier uitat de lume, îl călăuzește pe artist pe teritorii ale formei relativ necunoscute care sunt asemănătoare munților care-l înconjoară în timp ce lucrează. Pînzele astea mari sunt caracterizate mai curînd de pictatul temperamental decît atmosfera pictatului în sine, mai curînd de compoziția energică decît de planul imaginat anterior pictatului. În general așa e exercițiul creativ al lui Gorzo cel puțin în parte. Poate picta, sculpta sau desena, el arată straturile procesului, și lasă markerile pensulei să-l călăuzeze în sferele cele mai greu de anticipat, unde mișună figurile abstracte și creaturi stranii. Verdele-strugurii de vară, albastrul de turcoaz și rozul lin creează un fundal delicat în care diferite subiecte schițate aleargă de-a valma. Deseori în prim-plan aceleași culori apar ca picături expresi ve sau injectări cromatice, umplînd spațiile moarte, stre curîndu-se printre ele și transformînd figurile și formele în unele mai robuste, mai bizare, și totuși mai simpatice cumva. În noile sale creații Gorzo devine un agent pictural cu încrederea de sine al unui Guston și Bosch. Cu alte cuvinte asta e Gorzo cel obișnuit, temperamental, vocal și energic. Aproape că îl auzim cum tresaltă ecourile sale figurative prin munțile, văile, pădurile lui.
Dumitru Gorzo's new body of paintings, an exquisite and compositionally electric series the Brooklyn-based artist produced while visiting a remote studio outpost in his home country Romania, evidence him taking his characteristic, indeed unmistakable mark-making into formal territories as relatively uncharted as the isolated, mountainous landscapes that surrounded him as he worked. These large canvases have an air of being fervidly executed rather than merely painted, of being impetuously layered and energetically composed, then reined in and hewn as opposed to envisioned, planned and produced. To an extent, this is much like Gorzo's creative practice in general. Whether painting, sculpting or drawing, he is wont to leave readily palpable traces of his procedural strata at the surface, and to allow his often extemporaneous approach to initial mark-making to guide his compositions into most unforeseeable spheres comprising abstracted figures and curious creatures, or what might even register as organically inflected, technologically implausible architectures and machinery. His trademark summer-vine greens, turquoise blues and subtle blanched, softened pinks come into atmospheric, airy confluence in his backdrops, in which all manner of smallish, darkly inscribed subjects. In many of his foregrounds, then, these same colors are deployed as either expressive drips or chromatic bursts seeping through or filling in interstitial voids in much more robustly marked, candidly delineated, physically bizarre yet somehow sympa thetic figures and forms. With these new works, Gorzo's painterly agency is that of a cave dweller with a preternatural awareness of Guston and Bosch. In other words, this is Gorzo as usual, yet with the energy and volume turned up a notch. One can almost hear all of his figuratively evocative echoes bouncing about throughout mountains, forests and valleys.
Paul D`Agostino Traducere de Péter Demény
Paul D`Agostino
NĂŠro, 150 x 75 cm, akvarell, akril, papĂr, 2016
Reggel, 84 x 50 cm, akvarell, akril, papĂr, 2016
Pelaghia, 150 x 73 cm, akvarell, akril, papĂr, 2016
T. M. 3., 150 x 126 cm, szitanyomat, akril, papĂr, 2016
T.M.2., 150 x 117 cm, akril, szitanyomat, papĂr, 2016
KĂŠt nap, 150 x 123 cm, akril, papĂr, 2016
Te holnap, 150 x 82 cm, akvarell, akril, papĂr, 2016
Az elsĹ‘, 150 x 91 cm, akvarell, akril, papĂr, 2016
Századvég, 150 x 86 cm, akvarell, akril, papír, 2016
ZĂśld, 150 x 91 cm, akvarell, akril, papĂr, 2016
TanĂĄcstag, 150 x 137 cm, szitanyomat, akril, papĂr, 2016
1–12, szitanyomat, akril, papĂr, 102 x 70 cm, 2016
Dumitru Gorzo
EDUCATION 1997 – University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania, Bachelor of Arts Diploma specialising in Painting 1999 – University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania, PostGraduate Diploma in Advanced Studies in Plastic Arts SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 „La adapostul unor plante invazive”, H'art Appendix, Bucharest, Ro
2007 Short Stories of Gorzo, Atelier Vam Eck, Dusseldorf, Germany
2016 "Izvorul 2", with Gheorghe Rasovszky, Aiurart, Bucharest, Ro
2007 "Belle Roumanie , Kulturfabrik, Luxembourg
2015 Strata Kevin Cavanagh Gallery, Dublin, IR
2007 "Don't Complicate the Sleeping Baroque" with Gili Mocanu, Kunst Raum Noe, Vienna
2014 NO TITLE, Slag Gallery, NY
2006 "I Like God , H art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2013-2014 Out of Love, H Art Gallery, Bucharest, Ro
2006Indian Lava & Ritz Mood Guru: Present Salve Fiat Romuli Nepos, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest and Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO
2013 Walking a Porous Border, Slag Gallery, NY 2012 Heads, NJ MoCA, NJ, USA 2012 Reality vs. Nostalgia, Slag Contemporary, NY, USA
2005 „Mr. President is a Sexual Object”, HT003, Bucharest, Romania
2011 Not Tourists, BOX 13 ArtSpace, Houston, USA
2005 „Welcome to Paradise”, H'art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2011 The Fiasco of the End of the World , Jecza Gallery, Romania
2004 Dilitdotcom - Symptoms of Contemporary Myth, Anaid Art Gallery,
2010 Super C , Slag Gallery, New York
Bucharest, RO
2010 Wunderkabinett , Laika , Bucharest, Romania
2004 Rural Art protestation, HT 003 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2009 Core , Slag Gallery, New York City, USA 2008 In the Corner of My Eye, Slag Gallery, New York City, USA
2003 Rediscovering the Nude Beauty, H'art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Lista lucrărilor / List of the Artworks
Nero, 150 x 75 cm, acuarela si acrylic pe hartie / Nero, 150 x 75 cm, watercolor, acrylic on paper, 2016 Dimineata, 84 x 50 cm, acuarela si acrylic pe hartie / Daybreak, 84 x 50 cm, watercolor, acrylic on paper, 2016 Pelaghia, 150 x 73 cm, acuarela si acrylic pe hartie / Pelaghia, 150 x 73 cm, watercolor, acrylic on paper, 2016 T.M.3 150 x 126 cm, serigrafie si acrylic / T.M.3, 150 x 126 cm, serigraphy, acrylic on paper, 2016 T.M.2 154 x 117 cm, serigrafie si acrylic / T.M.2, 154 x 117 cm, serigraphy, acrylic on paper, 2016 Doua zile , 150 x 123 cm, acrylic pe hartie / Two Days, 150 X 123 cm, acrylic on paper, 2016 Tu maine, 150 x 82 cm, acuarela si acrylic pe hartie / You Tomorrow, 150 x 82 cm, watercolor, acrylic on paper, 2016 Prima 150 x 91 cm, acuarela si acrylic pe hartie / The First, 150 x 91 cm, watercolor, acrylic on paper, 2016 Sfarsit de secol, 150 x 86 cm, acuarela si acrylic pe hartie / End of The Century, 150 x 86 cm, watercolor, acrylic on paper, 2016 Verde, 150 x 91 cm, acuarela si acrylic pe hartie / Green, 150 x 91 cm, watercolor, acrylic on paper, 2016 Sindicul, 150 x 137 cm, serigrafie si acrylic / Union, 150 x 137 cm, serigraphy, acrylic on paper, 2016 Serigrafie acrilic pe hartie 1 – 12, 102 x 70 cm / Serigraphy, acrylic on paper 1 – 12, 102 x 70 cm, 2016