Andreea Talpeanu

Weaving against wasteland
A statement by Clare Mary Puyfoulhoux

"Growing up in Romania in the eighties might be one of the reasons why Andreea Talpeanu engaged in such an unusual field of artistic expression.
But saying that says nothing. Because what Andreea does, she does it with her fingers, with fabric and with talent but she also does it with her brain and heart. Her productions are woven in a political statement against all the waste modernity produces. They are the tamed expression of something raw that grows inside of her and needs to come out, something that cannot remain silent.
What Andreea’s hands create is an aesthetic reaction to the things that disturb her: half broken chairs left to die in the streets, abandoned pieces of clothing that can still shine, neglected lands people transit
through without even noticing the way their modern life ruins them. As such, her gesture could be seen as ethical. And it is, ethical, but it is more than that. Untamable, the feelings she is, as a human being, nearly oppressed by, found a way of transforming themselves into something aesthetical through the constant, uncompromising and meticulous work she produces.
Fighting with the means of an old lady (pieces of cloth, wool a...

Diplôme d’architecte d’état de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Val de Seine, 2013

Exposition monographique, Untitled nudes, HCA Gallery, Kansas City, 07.01.2023 - 17.02.2023

Exposition monographique, Mutations, Galerie de Thorigny, Paris, 14.09.2021 - 20.11.2021

Exposition monographique, Nus sans titre, Galerie POS, Paris, 03.02.2021 - 26.03.2021

Exposition monographique, Amour indigo, Galerie POS, Paris, 31.01.2020 - 07.02.2020

Performance, Grise matière, Aérostat Marionnettes Kiosque, Nanterre, 8.07.17

Exposition collective, Artbox Project, Art Basel, 14.06.17 – 18.06.17

Performance, Grise matière, Aérostat Marionnettes Kiosque, Nanterre, 8.07.17

Exposition collective, Artbox Project,
14.06.17 – 18.06.17
Artbox Project, Art Basel

Exposition collective, Made in Paper,
19.03.15 – 25.04.15
Galerie Exit art contemporain, Boulogne-Billancourt

Exposition collective itinérante, Atteinte à la beauté, 19.09.14 – 12.02.15
Hôtel de Ville, Villetaneuse; Centre culturel Joseph Kessel, Villepinte; Médiathèque Saint-Exupéry, Neuilly-sur-Marne
avec Nancy Burson, Esther Ferrer, Cécile Hesse et Gaël Romier, Michel Journiac, Robert Mapplethorpe, ORLAN, Olivier Rebufa, Andres Serrano, Alain Soldeville, Hervé Szydlowski, Frédérique Van Lawick et Hans Müller, Andreea Talpeanu.

Exposition collective, Du prix des cho...