George Popovici
Acces liber
2025
With a selection of works from three photographic series, ‘Alter Ego’, ‘Light & Shadows’, and ‘Soul Passage’, the exhibition’s title is inspired by a quote from Goethe, ‘We are shaped and fashioned by what we love’, in the original (German): ‘Wir sind geformt und gestaltet, durch das, was wir lieben’, referring both to the search for form, an artistic endeavor common to the three series, and to the profound theme of humanity expressed through gestures.
The three series share the same central character, a dancer, and the scenography eliminates any decorative element, foreground or background, any accessory, even color, allowing the artist and the viewer alike to focus on the shape and movements of the body. Light is an essential element in the compositions (and in the title of one of the series, ‘Light & Shadows’); its intensity, direction, and quality create a unique, postmodern, essentialized, experimental aesthetic.
Artist
George Popovici
George Popovici graduated from the George Enescu University of Arts in Iași – Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, where he earned a doctorate in visual arts, after having graduated from the Faculty of Musical Interpretation of the same university. He is a university lecturer at the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, where he teaches courses in studio photography, analog photography and darkroom, and has been a member of the Union of Visual Artists of Romania since 2016.
A multidisciplinary artist, he is best known as a photographer specializing in artistic photography, but he has also done fashion photography, visual documentation for art exhibitions and theater performances, product photography, graphic design for advertising posters, video art, and digital processing.
He has had numerous solo exhibitions in Romania and has participated in national and international group exhibitions, artistic creation competitions, and creation camps.
His concerns in the field of artistic photography are related to the analysis of the human body and elements of nature.
Curator
Cristina Simion
Curator and gallery owner Cristina Simion has conceived and organized over a hundred solo and group exhibitions (especially of contemporary artists from Eastern Europe, mostly from Romania), in Nuremberg, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Lisbon, Sintra, Bucharest, Ljubljana, Brussels, Chișinău, Bled, Brașov, Sibiu, Cluj, Iași, Timișoara, Suceava, Bayreuth, Smarje, Schmerikon. With a special interest in new figurative art, she has written, edited, and coordinated art catalogs and albums and has published numerous articles. Since 2012, she has been based in Nuremberg, Germany, where she runs the Tiny Griffon Gallery.
In 2019 and 2021, she co-curated the Brașov International Biennale of Visual Arts. With a doctorate in the management of non-standardized industries and over two decades of prior experience in management, journalism, and communication, Cristina Simion also attended and completed the International Curatorial courses organized by NODE Center for Curatorial Studies Berlin in 2018-2019, and in 2022, the Art Collection Management courses (also at NODE Center for Curatorial Studies Berlin) and the Introduction to Art and Finance at Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York.