MOBIUS at UVNT 2022

Mobius Gallery is excited to take part in UVNT 2022, together with Lea Rasovszky, Roman Tolici and Saddo, presenting works on canvas, paper, ceramics and tapestries. The fair can be visited from 24 to  27 February 2022 at Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos Madrid, Calle Hortaleza 63. 

UVNT is a New Contemporary Art fair that offers unique points of view through a curated selection of national and international art galleries. With 5 editionsbehind us, we include some of the most avant-garde and out-of-the- ordinary trends, which from the beginning have been part of our DNA. 

Roman Tolici (b.1974, Republic of Moldova) lives and works in Bucharest. He is associated with a photographic realism infused by poetry and a surreal sense of everyday existence. His paintings seem to be details of a monumental story related to the general human questions and anxieties. Tolici is most well known in Central and Eastern Europe for his distinctive combination of realism and surrealism – depictions of everyday situations infused by the dark, menacing, apocalyptic or simply odd. Tolici dares to foray into all aesthetic currents. On these paths, he creates an ironic and, sometimes, diabolic game. He interposes a series of interfaces between reality and us; therefore, art is an insurrection against reality, against its monopolist pretensions, a way of getting free from its averring omnipresence. At this point, the audiences are enveloped in a stage of pleasure. They wander through this superposition of eras, of spaces, and fail to recognize the usual framework; they feel lost, and at the same time, on familiar grounds. 

“Lea Rasovszky's art can be considered as a reflection on the seemingly endless births, metamorphoses, deaths, and ensuing resurrections of pop culture, “the sole myth system that unites us all”, as Leslie Fiedler once said. Indeed, at first sight it's all there, mostly in the form of small drawings and mixed media panels, or in room installations: the bodies, the boobs, the (s)dicks, the sex, the fashion, the kitsch, the bunnies, the sunglasses, the beauty nails, the Teletubbies, good old Mickey Mouse, the gender trouble, the shrill colors of advertisement, the hype of the new media, even the specters of religion roaming among the earthly sinners at the supermarket.
Rasovszky's works are characterized by a fresh roughness and rawness, albeit never taking delight in trash. Nonetheless, they always espouse an in–your–face–attitude, sometimes marked by anger, melancholy, even bitterness, sometimes by crude irony and humor.“ – Dr. Jörg Scheller

Romanian born contemporary artist Saddo, currently based in Bucharest, has a labile way with style, techniques and subjects. He juggles between paintings on canvas for galleries, large scale murals and commission illustrations for different projects and brands. His work mixes his taste for painters like Rousseau, Bosch, Walton Ford, Matisse, Iranian miniatures or Asian carpets, with his street art formation, visible in his love of contemporary illustration, decorative arts, hip hop, urban culture.
His subjects range from surrealist imagery, day of the dead like iconography, explorations on death in different myths and religions, portraits of rappers and gangsters, flowers, burning cars, intricate patterns of birds and plants. He samples many different details, composition elements, themes, from all the paintings, illustrations, carpets, books and movies he likes, and incorporates them in his own complex iconography.