dan voinea - gallery

PLAYBOY AFTERNOON

2011-06-26T19:47:00.001+03:00

Playboy Afternoon represents an x-ray of suspended gestures in the aftermath of our daily tremor, lazily unfolding as a sequence of celluloid frames.The main characters skid surrealistically out of an ordinary emotional wireframe, fill the void in the imaginary and then transfer our reality into a Hollywood-type mind-set, with some tongue-in-cheek classical references. In Dan Voinea’s vision, the kiss scene is recalibrated and the main characters are only capable of a self referential kind of love, caught in a hunt for alter egos. A psychological tragic comedy using surprising images that have the aftertaste of unfulfillment, of a goal which, in order to finally achieve, you may need a ‘help’ button.

A. Done

Fresh angle | oil on canvas | 100X120 cm | 2011

2011-06-26T19:42:00.001+03:00

Charade | oil on canvas | 120X100 cm | 2011

2011-06-26T19:37:00.001+03:00

Playboy afternoon | oil on canvas | 100X120 cm | 2011

2011-06-26T19:31:00.001+03:00

The streetcar scene | oil on canvas | 100X120 cm | 2011

2011-06-26T19:27:00.002+03:00

Blooper | oil on canvas | 100X120 cm | 2011

2011-06-26T19:21:00.001+03:00

The extras | oil on canvas | 100X120 cm | 2011

2011-06-26T19:15:00.001+03:00

Cool embrace II | oil on canvas | 100X120 cm | 2010

2011-06-26T19:07:00.002+03:00

Cool embrace I | oil on canvas | 100X120 cm | 2010

2011-06-26T18:55:00.001+03:00

Urban Capella – a choreography of fall

2010-07-07T12:35:00.012+03:00

“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)

The last "Judge"

2009-02-26T23:34:00.003+02:00

Hero 1 (Hero on his way) / oil on canvas / 190 X 200 / 2007

2009-02-26T22:56:00.002+02:00

Hero 3 (Or the new one) / oil on canvas / 205 X 250 cm / 2008

2009-02-26T22:55:00.001+02:00

Judge 7 (In Which The Hero asks for forgiveness) / oil on canvas / 110 X 180 cm / 2007

2009-02-26T22:53:00.001+02:00

Judge 9 (Judge's Parade) / oil on canvas / 110 X 180 cm / 2007

2009-02-26T22:51:00.001+02:00

Judge 4 (Judge of the Neighbour) / oil on canvas / 110 X 180 cm / 2007

2009-02-26T22:50:00.001+02:00

Judge 3 (A Judge less) / oil on canvas / 110 X 180 cm / 2007

2009-02-26T22:47:00.002+02:00

Judge 2 (Golden Dream Judge) / oil on canvas / 110 X 180 cm / 2007

2009-02-26T22:45:00.001+02:00

Judge 6 (Shaved Judges) / oil on canvas / 130 X 220 cm / 2007

2009-02-26T22:43:00.002+02:00

Judge 7 (Judge's Dog) / oil on canvas / 130 X 220 cm / 2007

2009-02-26T22:41:00.003+02:00

Judge 5 (Judge Inspiration) / oil on canvas / 110 X 180 cm / 2007

2009-02-26T22:40:00.001+02:00

Judge 5 - close up

2009-02-26T22:38:00.000+02:00

Hero 6 (End of Race) / oil on canvas / 300 X 250 cm / 2008

2009-02-26T22:36:00.002+02:00

Hero 4 (The Middle One) / oil on canvas / 400 X 250 cm / 2008

2009-02-26T22:34:00.002+02:00

Exhibition view

2009-02-26T22:29:00.000+02:00

Hero 5 (Ascending Heros) / oil on canvas / 400 X 250 cm / 2008

2009-02-26T22:26:00.003+02:00

Exhibition view

2009-02-26T22:25:00.001+02:00

Underground

2009-02-26T22:21:00.001+02:00

Freeed!!! / oil on canvas / 110 X 120 cm / 2002

2009-02-26T22:19:00.002+02:00

Fred can't answer you / oil on canvas / 110 X 120 cm / 2002

2009-02-26T22:17:00.002+02:00

Pinball 6 / oil on canvas / 60 X 80 cm / 2006

2009-02-26T22:16:00.001+02:00

Pinball 5 / oil on panel / 50 X 70 cm / 2005

2009-02-26T22:12:00.002+02:00

Pinball 2 / oil on panel / 50 X 70 cm / 1999

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Pinball 1 / oil on panel / 50 X 70 cm / 1999

2009-02-26T22:06:00.004+02:00