The Suceava public and beyond can visit the exhibition "The Object", created by the visual artist from Iași, Iulian Copăcel, and curated by writer Alexandru Ovidiu Vintilă, the president of the Society of Bucovinian Writers, at the "I.G. Sbiera" Library Gallery in Suceava, free of charge, until the end of April.
The opening of the exhibition, which took place on the first day of April, was attended by a large audience, many of whom were high school students open to dialogue and eager to learn new things about art. In addition to the students, members of the Society of Bucovinian Writers, including writers Doina Cernica, Alis Niculică, and Constantin Horbovanu, were present. Also at the event were Romanian language and literature teachers Alina Pintilii, Marius Pintilii (director of the Ioan Ciurea Secondary School in Fălticeni), and Professor Mihaela Beșa (director of the Dimitrie Cantemir Economic College in Suceava)
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Poet, graphic artist, and doctor in the history of Bucovina, Constantin Hrehor, visited the exhibition before the opening. Literary critic and professor Isabel Vintilă, a specialist in historical avant-garde art, also gave a lecture on Iulian Copăcel's abstract art. The manager of the Suceava Library "I.G. Sbiera", Dr. Gabriel Cărăbuș, was once again supportive of the Society of Bucovinian Writers, demonstrating his continuous openness to high-quality cultural events.
“A Ensemble of Figures, Linked in a Frenetic, Ritualistic Dance”
At the opening, the public learned that "The Object" by Iulian Copăcel consists of thirteen paintings that succeed each other, forming a unique image. The artist observes, as Alexandru Ovidiu Vintilă pointed out, that everything is interconnected, that we are captive within a living organism that constantly changes, and within which the rules of the game are constantly modified. The curator further explained that "the artist Iulian Copăcel develops and reaches The Object from the concrete drawing, over which, as a fine prestidigitator, he superimposes the abstract scheme. The ensemble of figures, linked in a frenetic, somehow ritualistic dance, outlined with the meticulousness of a passionate draftsman, only emerges as a suggestion—the tone of a world covered by another world, the general one, the uniformed crowd, the clamor of impersonal, clumsy spirits. The dance captured in the plastic composition is the human tendency to struggle against inertia, to be personal, to save oneself, to become oneself. For this reason, I would call his art, this Object of Iulian Copăcel, a poeticism of the self, without a doubt, existentially grounded, an act of depth (Bachelard), an arrangement towards and in oneself, an objectification that gives the author the possibility to balance his being."
“Art Shouldn’t Be Explained, But Rather Let It Present Itself”
In the meeting held at the exhibition opening, visual artist Iulian Copăcel shared that art should not be explained but rather allowed to present itself, brought closer to the public and revealed without artifices. He was delighted that the Suceava audience was predominantly young, as such cultural encounters inspire him for future projects. Literary critic Isabel Vintilă added that the exhibition "The Object" is mainly dedicated to the human being in continuous dynamism and that Iulian Copăcel not only captures this ongoing evolution of the human being but also "the multiple worlds in which we live. The female bodies immortalized in an ascending dance are juxtaposed with other anthropomorphic figures over which Iulian Copăcel draws in brushstrokes liberated from conventions, feelings, attitudes, and states of mind."
Daniela MICUŢARIU
