Selby Gallery Presents: Traces of Contemporary Romania

Traces of Contemporary Romania

November 14 – December 16, 2008


[OPENING RECEPTION] Friday, Nov. 14, 2008, 5–7 p.m.

[ARTIST RECEPTION & PANEL DISCUSSION] Thursday, Nov.13, reception at 5:30 p.m. followed by presentation at 7 p.m.

Gabriela Boiangiu, Emanuel Borcescu and Delia Popa will be on the panel and present for the receptions and Director’s tour along with curator, Dr. Ann Albritton.

[DIRECTOR’S TOUR] Monday, Nov.17, 11:30 a.m.


Traces of Contemporary Romania presents sixteen young Romanian artists who—sometimes straightforwardly and often ironically—explore issues of culture as well as gender through a variety of work: photography, videos, hand sewn projects, small objects, and paintings. Unlike the previous generation that worked under the starkly repressive dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, they have traveled more outside Romania and many exhibit throughout Europe. Representing this new generation are: Ana Banica, Gabriela Boiangiu, Rozalinda Borcila, Emanuel Borcescu, Care Cutare, Gorzo, Suzana Dan, Gorzo, Mirela Ivanciu, Stela Lie, Ioana Marinescu, Aurelia Mihai, Gili Mocanu, Vlad Nanca, Lila Passima, and Delia Popa.

The exhibition first traveled to CIAC Gallery in Pont Aven, France, July 12 to August 14, 2008; to the Robert Else Gallery, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA from Sept. 2 to Oct. 15, 2008; and now to the Selby Gallery, Sarasota, from Nov. 14 to Dec. 16, 2008. It will then return to Romania to be shown in the National University Fine Arts Gallery in Bucharest, March 10-24, 2009. For two years, between 1993 and 1995, Ann Albritton, Ringling College of Art and Design, taught modern and contemporary art history at the Grigorescu Academy of Art (now the National University of Fine Arts) in Bucharest, Romania. Visiting Bucharest again in 2006, Albritton suggested to two former students, Mirela Ivanciu and Carmen Iovitu, that they collaborate on an exhibition featuring young Romanian artists that would travel to France and the U. S. Elaine O’Brien, art historian at Sacramento State University and writer on global art history, had visited in Romania in 1995 and joined the other curators. The curatorial team: Dr. Ann Albritton, Ringling College of Art and Design, Dr. Elaine O’Brien, Sacramento State University, Mirela Ivanciu, and Carmen Iovitu, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, have all contributed to the development of this exhibition.

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