Sandu Adrian

Portable Objects That Will Leave The Workshop At Some Point

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The artist Adrian Sandu works in a museum. His workshop is in the museum building. In 2015 Adrian Sandu temporarily moved his workshop in the display section of the museum, this dislocation being something provisional. His private workshop was „transported” in the public gallery of a museum. An artist’s workshop is usually found in his home, „in the workshop”. Adrian Sandu’s workshop is in a museum both literally and symbolically. It is as if the display area of the museum got a new look, as if the museum showed us an exhibit called „An artist’s workshop”, a tableau vivant, with typical scenes extracted from the film The artist at work.

Indeed, if you say workshop you say the artist at work. But then you might ask yourself: what does the artist Adrian Sandu do in his „new” workshop located in the last two exhibition rooms of the Museum of Arad? Art is what the artist does simply by sitting around in the studio, says Bruce Nauman. If you are an engraver, a painter or a sculptor, things are made simple by the specific constraints of the craft. A painter knows what he has to do when he spends his time in his workshop. But for the generic contemporary artist...

Adrian Sandu este artist vizual si curator in cadrul Muzeului de Arta Arad (n. 1968 Arad, Romania)/ traieste si lucreaza in Arad, Romania / lucreaza in principal gravura si desen

/ expune in cadrul unor evenimente internationale – expozitii de grup, bienale si trienale: 2017 – global print Douro, Porugalia, 2016 – European Cuteness Art [kindchenschema pseudoego community narcissism], curator Giancarlo Carpi – Bucuresti, 2015, 2016 – Media Art Festival Arad, magazin mixt – Muzeul de Arta Arad/MNAC Bucuresti, 2014 – Paper on – Art Yourself Gallery Bucuresti, 2013 – CreArt travel exhibition the real more than the real – Valladolid, Lecce, Arad, 2012 – a 3 a quadrienala balcanica de pictura – Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011 – bienala de gravura de la Varna, Bulgaria, 2010 – trienala internationala de gravura mica Lahti, Finlanda, 2009 – bienala international de gravura mica Cremona, Italia, 2006 – bienala international de gravura mica Iowa, S.U.A., 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 – anuala internationala de gravura mica Cadaques, Spania, 2004 – trienala international de arta Majdanek, Polonia, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 – bienala international de gravura Acqui Terme, Italia, 2001, 2004, 2010 – trienala international de gravura Ural, Ufa, Rusia, 1999 – trienala internationala de gravura Tokyo, Japonia / a derulat si unele proiecte personale: 2018 – Circus Garden – Art Yourself Gallery Bucures...