DUALITIES

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An encounter between painting and object, between two worlds — nature and mechanism, between the warmth, time and silence of the natural world and the cold structure of mechanisms.

A suspended moment, in which the flight of birds and the silence of clocks breathe the same time.

The exhibition „Dualities” brings together the artificial world of mechanisms and the natural world of birds in two distinct ways of looking at the world and the passage of time.

One of the artists, Ana Maria Bărbos, brings to the exhibition the breath of nature — birds, flights, sky spaces, balance, fragility. Through colour and texture, the artist renders the moment as a sequence, as the freedom of living, organic time. She captures the fragility and poetry of the living world as fleeting presences of birds, hidden among branches, shadows and light.

In the forms of the birds in her paintings, one finds the rhythm of the natural world and a time of stillness, of freedom.

The other artist, Mihail Manta, builds forms in which time becomes visible, objects that transform matter into story. He works with heavy matter — metal, wood, glass, wheels, clock mechanisms — to transform time and its substance into plastic form. His mechanisms no longer measure time, but suspend it. They are clocks without time, where movement is transformed into silence, and matter becomes a carrier of memory.

Time takes on a body, and movement becomes visible in the interplay between transparency and metal.

The two universes of the artists compose a visual proposition about balance, stillness, time. In „Dualities”, mechanism and fragility, weight and delicacy, natural and artificial time coexist without cancelling each other out. In dialogue, their works reveal not necessarily opposition, but coexistence, and become expressions of the same rhythm: that of passing.

The exhibition „Dualities” speaks of how opposites attract, intertwine and give rise to a visual harmony, of the encounter between the order created by humans and that of nature. The viewer is invited to pause for a moment, to listen to the silence between the beats of time and to rediscover the fragile, delicate yet powerful dimension of nature.