The Girl Next Door Charcoal/Acrylic on Canvas withWalnut Branches 74.4" x 49.2" x 20"
Andreea Anghel Cluj-Napoca, Romania
http://cigaro.carbonmade.com
BIO: I am currently 23 and as of October 2011 I am studying for my Bachelor's Degree in Graphics at UAD Cluj-Napoca, Romania / ASPWroclaw, Poland. I'm a visual artist who manipulates photos, paints and draws on various surfaces with all kinds of materials. Recently I've started creating installations as well.
Notable Exhibitions: Damned II & III, Detroit, USA (2009 and 2010) - group exhibition "I am Abnormal" - Group Exhibition, Berlin, Germany (2009) Damaged People - Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2011) - Solo Exhibition Human Being (The places of presence) - Venice, Italy (2011) - Group exhibition Crucifiction ofModernMan - Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2011) - Solo exhibition
Publications: nEgoist’s “Obscene seduction” art book (2010, Poland) George Canon’s “175 photographers” contemporary art book (2010) Datacolor’s “Colors of my life” art book (2009)
ABOUT THE ART/SERIES: “Damaged People” is a series of 6 installations created between January-June of 2011, inCluj-Napoca,Romania andWroclaw, Poland.
The artworks presented include close friends and well-known models. I chosemodels in contrast to relatively unknown people because anybody can be famous, anybody can be damaged, no
matter how good their life is. The five characters representedhave a strong, evencontagious sexuality, as theyare a resultofourmodernsociety,which
inevitably revolves around sex. Through these works I am questioning who and what we perceive as damaged, because apparently it may happen to
anyone, regardless of background or current situation, andwhether or not they’re actually damaged, orwe just choose to question this based on what we think happens inside them. People transformtheirbodies insyncwithwhat they’regoingthroughinside.Whentheyexceedsocially-acceptedlimits,
they become damaged in the eyes of others, but also interesting to a few who are open-minded. The artworks question making yourself accepted in a society that sees you as (mentally) damaged: being borderline
anorexic, havingmost of your body covered with tattoos, visually exposing what you believe in, trying to be something you’re not, ormaybe trying to showpeoplewhat you really are and, because of this excessive sincerity, people reject you. Regarding the installation itself, the need for branches is supported by wanting to project the inner self of my models
outside of the canvas in an expansive and interactiveway. I amtrying to express the rebirth of a generation, of something new, and I want the public to take part in it by feeling a strong connection to the artworks presented, to the fact that they break the barrier between what’s depicted in two dimensions and what people see as their three-dimensional continuity.
The technique used, a loosely realistic charcoal drawing on canvas, is in opposition to the raw branches, and the
characters’ interaction with themsuggest borderline reality, questioning what we perceive as real (the drawings or their 3d projection and continuity).
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