A new publication of the work of Serban Savu will be launched alongside Under the Radar – Savu’s first solo exhibition at a public institution, opening on 25 March 2011 at Pitzhanger Manor, PM Gallery and House, Ealing, London.
The publication, featuring texts by Rozalinda Borcila and David Cohen, a foreword by David Nolan, and designed by Dan Miller, is published by Hatje Cantz and can be purchased from their website and from selected art publication retailers. The publication will be on sale at PM Gallery for the duration of the exhibition.
The publication is 112pp, contains 52 colour illustrations, measures 20.3 x 25.4 cm and has a half-cloth hard cover. €39.80. Published March 2011. ISBN: 978-3-7757-2839-3
Details from the Hatje Cantz website:
Serban Savu (*1978 in Sighisoara, Romania) belongs to a group of artists from Cluj, Romania, who have caught the attention of the international art scene due to their unique stance on life and art in Romania. Their perspective expresses disenchantment with the utopian ideals of the old communist regime and at the same time scepticism toward the new capitalist order. The subjects of Savu’s paintings are scenes from everyday life featuring bucolic landscapes marred by relics of the superceded regime—Soviet-bloc–style residential buildings and abandoned factories. The people in his paintings often stem from the formerly glorified working class, yet the artist does not approach these figures with nostalgia. Rather, he presents them with sensitivity for the contradictions of contemporary life in Romania.
Exhibition schedule: Pitzhanger Manor, PM Gallery & House, London March–April 2011 | David Nolan, New York, opening September 2011
Great serban
RăspundețiȘtergerei have one work called The Foundry from Plan-b gallery