AN INVINCIBLE SUMMER
Mobius is pleased to host a drinks reception to celebrate the release of An Invincible Summer – Codruța Cernea’s first artist book. An exhibition showcasing works from different moments of the artist’s career will be held in conjunction with the book launch, highlighting the main series of paintings created in the last decade.
An exhibition showcasing works from different moments of the artist’s career will be held in conjunction with the book launch, highlighting the main series of paintings created in the last decade.
Exhibition opening: Thursday, 28 October, 5 – 8 PM
#18 Dumbrava Roșie street, Bucharest
Exhibition dates: 28 October - 13 November, 2021
Mobius is pleased to host a drinks reception to celebrate the release of An Invincible Summer – Codruța Cernea’s first artist book. An exhibition showcasing works from different moments of the artist’s career will be held in conjunction with the book launch, highlighting the main series of paintings created in the last decade.
At first sight, the dialectical path from feminine art with masculine means, which crossed through feminine art with feminine means and finally reached feminist art with feminist means, constitutes a complete and perfectly completed trajectory, from (self) mystification, by partial demystification towards integral demystification and subsequent instrumentalization. But the history of art never has an end (be it happy or unhappy), as it always invites, wonderfully, to relaunch.
The evolution of Codruța Cernea is exemplary for this tacit feminine liberation from the noisy feminist movement, a freedom from the pseudo-liberties brought by the cynical-critical distancing of the previous generation, trapped in a sterile demystification, whose consequences were, among others, a break-up with painting for most of those who had practiced it and brought it to the limelight of feminism, where it wasn’t much room for canvases and the act of painting itself. – excerpt from Erwin Kessler’s introduction for An Invincible Summer
The catalogue includes an introduction by Erwin Kessler, curator, art critic and historian.
The catalog is published in partnership with EXPO ARTE and Kontakt.
