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Andrei Gamarț (born 1980, Republic of Moldova) lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. He is an artist educated in Chișinău and constantly exploring other creative fields such as poetry and literature. His paintings, drawings, and graphic works reveal fractures of a world that seems suspended in-between time and space. The major themes populating this tenebrous and sometimes surreal “counter-reality” tackle the relation between memory, matter, innocence and error.

About
“When I reflect upon it, I can see that it's a journey full of twists and turns. To where exactly is yet to be seen. I take great care in the process; each step is investigated in detail. I observe phenomena from a remove; taking note of objects, images and words that can seem trivial but may trigger the attention - such as how the light falls upon a surface, and how firstly flowers appear upon trees and then there are only the leaves, then the seemingly lifeless body.“

“A scene manifold, theatrical. Black boxes are illuminated to allow you see the unsuspected mental machinery within, a column that penetrates the floor towards something you can't yet make out, closets that open and absorb you into a world of which you are suspicious, but there are no means of closing them. Andrei Gamarț's exhibition Mirror for The Full Moon places you in front of your own character, a character hitherto unknown.”

“What makes me negotiate about the end of painting when I try to interpret the paintings of Gamarț is their force of mirroring various stages of the history of painting, of challenging our cultural memory as well as their surrealist content reflecting our ambiguous notions and understanding of the world we live in. These paintings with their content and references may indicate end of history, but with their re-configured aesthetics they re-generate a new experience for painted images.”

Education
1999 – BFA – Painting, Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova

2004 – MFA – Painting, Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova

Eclipse
Eclipse is a journey into a world where light's memory becomes an instrument for translating reality, Andrei Gamarț introducing another layer into the architecture of his exhibition – a transparent veil installation through which he obturates (once more) the painted images, thus mediating an intimate experience with the source of light. Behind the veil, there are details of an almost tangible world – branches and leaves of trees which hardly allow the passing of a few rays of sunshine (Window, 2020), clouds with primordial shadows (Vertigo, 2019), pieces of pure, dazzling light (#1 and #2, both from the series Blindness, 2019), a series of visions and fragments of reality with an over-exposure of images in a way that turns the whole experience into an outline, a container of light and, at the same time, a witness to its own materiality.

The Error
The Error exhibition represents a turning point in the artistic career of Andrei Gamarț, for this first solo show in the space of Zorzini Gallery turns his inner ascertains into assertions regarding the world: the artist turns his eyes away from his inside realities towards the outside ones, changing the point of view from upon an interior universe towards the conjuring facts and transforming his artworks into an observation bastion from which he looks upon the world. In The Error solo show, the artist states the end of the world as we know it, leaving both his characters and his public to discover new horizons beyond the falling walls of this reality which dissipates and crumbles without knowing. Thus, Andrei Gamart describes a post apocalyptical landscape in which people move and react in the same common way they are used to, without realizing each experience brings them closer to a time of the apocalypse now...

The Shifting Presence
The Shifting Presence series, created within the Danubian Resident Programme, delineates the artist’s inner assertions upon reality presented in a magic and unifying, henologic manner. Thus, Andrei Gamarț qualifies “reality as a conglomerate of particles, linked together by the strength of a hidden principle and a common memory of the moment when everything was one unit.”

This Garden Was Enchanted
This Garden Was Enchanted “(…) I paused - I looked / And in an instant all things disappeared. /(Ah, bear in mind this garden was / enchanted!) (…)” By Edgar Allan Poe. In This Garden was Enchanted solo show, Andrei Gamarț delineates his inner assertions upon the world and studies memory stages and illumination aspects in relation to subjective reality, in a manner somehow corresponding to Henri Bergson’s vision regarding immediate experience and intuition. As a result, Andrei Gamarț qualifies “reality as a conglomerate of particles, linked together by the strength of a hidden principle and a common memory of the moment when everything was one unit”; meanwhile, another leading and poetic idea that detaches from this group of artworks is that we all belong to the enchanted garden of the world. The paintings and installation comprised in This Garden was Enchanted solo show present to the public the artistic research of a couple of divine, superior principles organizing the collective perception, that rule the patterns of interpretation regarding the common understanding of the unseen energies overlapping us all, humanity. Andrei Gamarț is thus exploring the unifying power of primer energy sources such as memory and light and, represents his interpretation of them within the frame of both personal and collective emotions.

Mirror For The Full Moon
Mirror For The Full Moon “A scene manifold, theatrical. Black boxes are illuminated to allow you see the unsuspected mental machinery within, a column that penetrates the floor towards something you can't yet make out, closets that open and absorb you into a world of which you are suspicious, but there are no means of closing them. Andrei Gamart's exhibition Mirror for The Full Moon places you in front of your own character, a character hitherto unknown.”

“What makes me negotiate about the end of painting when I try to interpret the paintings of Gamarț is their force of mirroring various stages of the history of painting, of challenging our cultural memory as well as their surrealist content reflecting our ambiguous notions and understanding of the world we live in. These paintings with their content and references may indicate end of history, but with their re-configured aesthetics they re-generate a new experience for painted images.”

Escape
Even if we leave aside the notions of Time and Space, Escape does not cease to be a projection, an image that seduces us, a promise for our own freedom, deferred indefinitely. This project involves a large painting, on which will be projected in real time images from a surveillance camera on a beach from the Pacific.

Solo exhibitions
2021 – Eclipse, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest, RO

2020 – The River, Apollo111, Bucharest, RO

2018 – Hidden In The Blinding Light, Resident Art, Budapest, HU

2018 – Memories Are Here and It’s Spring Again, The Brâncoveni Palaces Cultural Centre, Bucharest, RO

2018 – Calpe Gallery, Timișoara, RO

2017 – Seasons, Mobius Gallery Pop Up, Bucharest, RO

2016 – Mirror For The Full Moon, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest, RO

2014 – This Garden Was Enchanted, Zorzini Gallery, Bucharest, RO

2013 – Shifting Presence, Zorzini Gallery, Port Cultural Cetate, RO

2012 – The Error, Zorzini Gallery, Bucharest, RO

2011 – The Counter Realist, Prospekt Gallery at Știrbei Palace, Bucharest, RO

2009 – The Man Who Walks In Shade, Montage Gallery, Bucharest, RO

2008 – Nameless Exhibitions, Alexander Gallery, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova

2005 – Kosmographia, C. Brâncuși Exhibition Center, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova

Group exhibitions
2019 – NordArt, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Germany

2018 – Homo Deus, Mobius Gallery, New York

2018 – EYE TO I, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest

2017 – Out of the Blue, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest

Art Residences and Biennale
”Hidden In The Blinding Light” / Andrei Gamart Solo Show, Budapest Art Factory Residence

During the 1st WASBiennale, more than 70 art shows and various art events took place in artist studios, apartment galleries and even private spaces all over the world over the world at the same time. The programme showed artistic and curatorial practice with somewhat different backgrounds, approaches and goals. But what united all those projects was the search for distinct forms of representation. The headline of the first edition of WASBiennale: BE MY GUEST brought the idea of transforming boundaries, showing a decreasing approach of white-cube-based art space and inviting viewers to take a step into the intimate artist’s zone. Letting anyone in the artist’s studio, as well as inviting someone in your private space is a gesture of high confidence. Showing art in such format, involving the audience in direct dialogue, helping to reduce a gap and provide a new scale of artist/viewer communication.  

Danubian Resident is an open-call project, dedicated to contemporary visual arts, initiated in Romania by Port Cultural Cetate in partnership with Zorzini Gallery from Bucharest. The project aims to generate a cultural exchange between Romanian contemporary artists and foreign artists, offering limited periods of time at the locations included in its circuit. The first resident for the summer of 2013 is Andrei Gamarț who is presenting an exhibition supported by Zorzini Gallery, featuring the artworks created during the six-week residency at Port Cultural Cetate.