.2024
This exhibition marks 10 years since Vlad’s first solo show in his home country, Romania. It brings together some previous works and prototypes from the Miniplex and Synthetic Nature series, as well as new pieces designed specially for this event.
The art installation to be unveiled for this exhibition consists of a floating cloud of modular art pieces, organic shapes with irregular appearance reminding of corals or sea creatures but with an underlying symmetrical rigour. These pieces are a result of a nature-inspired architectural research informed by self-organisation of matter, conservation of energy and equilibrium. Their fluid geometries are generated using algorithms, mathematical rules and reflectional symmetry as well as materialised through rigorous digital fabrication techniques.
Artist
Vlad Țenu
Vlad Țenu is a Romanian-British architect based in London. From architectural design and teaching to art installations, sculptures, modular assembly systems and wearable art pieces, Vlad’s work is a continuous explorative research into spatiality, scale and materiality. Inspired by underlying processes of nature, his design workflow is a symbiotic mix of art and science involving mathematical concepts and algorithmic techniques.
Curator
Galateca
Galateca is one of the most famous multidisciplinary art and design galleries in Romania, a reference space, a platform for the promotion of multimedia projects, since 2012. Over time, the gallery has organized or hosted numerous contemporary and interdisciplinary art exhibitions by local and international contemporary artists. Equally, the gallery has undertaken programs to promote young artists, art and science, sustainability and collaborative programs and encourage contemporary art production through the development of cultural projects within its own spaces and that exceed its borders. Some of the iconic cultural programs created by Galateca are: Măiastra, poveste nespusă a iei, Arta la intrare, #contactless art wall, Neo Studio – youg artist program, CSWeek- Sustainable Creative Week, Neo Art Connect (NAC) – first Art and Science Anual.
Details on website: www.galateca.ro