Landslide, 2022
oil on canvas
40 × 50 cm | 15 3/4 × 19 11/16 in.
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Berlin
€15,000
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Serban Savu’s skillfully rendered canvases capture the daily existence of people at work and leisure. The artist’s realist depictions of life in urban and rural landscapes evoke the essence of a rapidly changing society. Characterized by empathy and close observation, reduction and re-composition, his paintings are capable of initiating an assessment of the present moment understood in a wider, historical sense. The paintings of Serban Savu start from the neutral (“objective”) observation of the surrounding reality, which is filtered through the past. The artist is not only interested in the recent past – which is more visible in today’s society – but also in society in its entirety, in its history and mechanisms.
“Not unlike a Courbet mindset, in which classical tropes are applied as a filter through which to view the encroaching, democratized present, Savu’s paintings physically look and feel very old and very new at the same time. It’s post-impressionist, it’s post-classical, it’s post-Soviet — but it’s not Post-Modern. It ignores the visual markers of linear time and repositions both sociopolitical history and art history as feedback loops, as weavings in which the threads can no longer be unraveled — as reflections of the current moment marked both by hope and despair, inseparable still from the past that defines and confines it.“ (Excerpt from a text by Shana Nys Dambrot)
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