“Can an abandoned area be picturesque?”
Irina Botea, Nicu Ilfoveanu
January 21 – March 2, 2012
Anca Poterașu Gallery
”Just as the eye sees unawarely and registers peripherally the unwanted, what its very conscious and intentional sight (creator of objects and phenomena) marginalises, rejects, subordinates, thus rendering justice unintentionally, beyond the working, exploiting sense making intention, the hand too may make mistakes starting off, as it fortunately happened to me, writing Picturesque, but ending up with Picturescue.”
“What is picturesque here? Everything we see. (…) A picturesque image”, says he, after having run in circles trying to form for us the Image of a forgotten, abandoned place, picturesque in itself, hence for nobody, the Stalker of this deindustrialised strugatkian-tarkovskian neo- Zone…
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