Within walking distance

The phrase Within walking distance outlines an exhibition that proposes the meticulous analysis of the exhibition ritual by problematizing the relationship between the art consumer and the object of this craft, the art work.
With this proposal to approach the exhibition space, artists Cristian Opris and Norbert Filep challenge the visitor to take risks: the questions that often appear in the creative act (Is it worth exhibiting this work? Is it strong enough/valid?) transfer to the viewer and assume the position of consumer and creator. Thus, the one who looks becomes part of the work and the exhibition is complete.

Norbert Filep

“Throughout this project four artists are invited to make a gesture of gratitude towards a person who inspired them during their artistic and human growth, who contributed to their way of creating, of thinking, of relating to others and themselves. For a week each participating artist engages in a simple and substantive dialogue with his or her guest; a natural conversation, without elocution, in this public space with an intimate dimension.

A series of exhibitions like the formal expressions of a meeting, of seemingly small and casual events that in time prove to have the force of fertile seeds in a fertile soil. Reflections on the possible transformations born out of encounters, on their capacity to create experiments, to unleash energies, to transform dreams in visions and visions in acts. Creative gestures that emanate the energy of conscious and profound individuals, active participants in the life of the community”

Ovidiu Leuce