Kenopsia / Metanoia – seminar și vizită de atelier

Intervin: Ștefan Ungureanu, artist vizual; George Anghelescu, artist vizual

În cadrul seminarului și al vizitei de atelier, artiștii vizuali Ștefan Ungureanu și George Anghelescu vor prezenta expoziția Kenopsia / Metanoia, curatoriată de criticul de artă Dan Popescu și găzduită în perioada 13 decembrie 2025 – 28 februarie 2026 de InVitro Gallery, din Cluj-Napoca.

„Ștefan Ungureanu and George Anghelescu are millennials. What is the specific difference of Gen Y artists from their predecessors? To my mind, it is something that pertains to how⎯most of them being urban⎯they relate to the future and the past. To Gen Ys, the past does not carry the dramatic power of tradition, and the future is regarded with a mixture of optimism and melancholy. The present exhibition proposes two examples of affective-axiological visual positioning in relationship with the future and the past.
Kenopsia is the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people and life but is now empty and quiet. It is one of those feelings for which one would not even suspect that there is a term to describe it. Ștefan Ungureanu comes up with an image which captures this feeling and makes it even more ineffable, in mental landscapes which clearly suggest a fictional future. Despite looking like a landschaft reminiscent of a desert in Arizona, it bears the traces of a human terraforming and of a living which is still smoking, or which can still be glimpsed. It is the image of the melancholy of the future.
George Anghelescu points up the way millennials relate to the past. Reiterating a previously expressed idea, to Gen Ys the past is either something to be ignored or left behind by embracing the countless injustices. Visual metanoia is George’s obsession. No nation remains untainted by its history, and Anghelescu proposes in each constructed image a tension between horror and beauty which works better than many history treatises.” (Text: Dan Popescu / Translation: Bertha Savu)