Urban Capella – a choreography of fall

“Urban Capella, the young artist's project sends us to another Sisteen Chapel (closer to our chaotic times and more ambitious in the author's axiology, yet inspired by the same theme: The Final Judgement!). A Sisteen Chapel in the middle of a crisis, of a painful split between zenith and nadir. Voinea's characters, conceived according to an old oxymoron (because the artist wanted them as such!) – Heroes and Judges – are, first of all, consistent. They are life-like and have flesh. The viewer almost feels how their muscles pulsate on them. A wild vitality seems to erupt from their inner beings. Their energetic force is impressive, while their inner flame radiates forcefully. The artist's paintings are to be decoded as a neurotic extrapolation of a series of their author's identity crises (the very paint looks neurotic!). All in all, Voinea's characters live rather dangerously, having been abandoned and suspended in a risky, acrobatic movement. They seem to be balancing in a precarious state somewhere between fall and ascension. The artist calls it a “choreography of the Hero's fall”, a “continuous insemination of the nadir”. So, on one hand there is the innocent Hero, for ever falling and trying in vain to transcend limits. On the other hand there is the conventional and dull Judge, signifying the immanence. An obvious and regretful act of Luciferic damnation.

Close to Baroque masterpieces, Dan Voinea changes the angle radically: the pavement has now replaced the Baroque ceiling.”

(Romania Libera - independent journal, Bucharest)