HOLLÓ BARNA / GALERIA KONSTANT/ ORADEA / RO

HOLLÓ BARNA
 
SEARCHING FOR A POSSIBLE
AXIS
 
February 3, 2011 – February 24, 2011
 
Galeria
Konstant is pleased announce the personal exhibition of Holló Barna, born in
1951, an artist who lives and works in Ordea / RO.
It seems
that memory plays an increasingly important role in contemporary art.
Like many
contemporary artists, Holló Barna turns to the past in his struggle to
interpret the present. Relying on key elements from the past becomes a modern
way of approach, as they conceive the role of germs in the artistic act, for
most of the artists today. Items such as baskets, fabrics with symbolic
elements different materials, photos, become points of reference while
accumulating that archaic preciousness true which they call themselves history
bearing emblems of identity.
The approach
of artist Holló Barna, whose at his first
solo exhibition at Konstant Gallery, can be considered a tribute to the history
of recovering an individual's identity. Besides a well-structured conceptual
approach the artist uses old techniques of transposition making them compatible
with new printing techniques such as serigraphy, giving updates and continuity
to the perpetuation of an artistic belief. Even if Holló’s visual vocabulary
includes different elements that signal somehow the origin of the artist,
re-contextualizing them bring us some clues about the reorganized and updated
strategy.
The
installation exposed at Konstant Gallery implies the accumulated experiences,
stories of objects that have marked his existence.
 Based on the sleeping vine graft, kept in a
old military suitcase until the haulm that grew out of it in front of the
house, which the artist was forced by certain circumstances to sacrifice. Put
out of a silent context, Barna's objects gain a 
whole new sequence, a whole new directed scenario. Like a Gothic
sculptures gestures, the haulm endorses "almost shamanic" the inside
space of the gallery.
Starting
from the east, aiming towards the west where it is "clean" in a
mirror. The artist empties the object of its original meaning in order to
rebuild a new one with it. We can swing on the idea of worshiping in a way the
relics of the past by organizing them and giving them effect, in a
"sterile" space, saving them from an easy made interpretation.
Curated by: Constantin Costea