{"id":6664,"date":"2025-09-08T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:00:33","slug":"bucharest-events-marilena-preda-sanc-exhibition-to-open-at-gaep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6664","title":{"rendered":"Bucharest events: Marilena Preda S\u00e2nc exhibition to open at Gaep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Marilena Preda S\u00e2nc: Bodyscape 1982\u20131988<\/em>, a show focused on works the artist created in the 1980s, is scheduled to open at Bucharest gallery Gaep next week.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition covers a large number of collages, photographs with interventions, and drawings that have never been shown before, highlighting \u201ca brave, experimental artistic practice that openly expressed Marilena Preda S\u00e2nc\u2019s experiences as a woman, despite the oppressive climate of the era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the artist\u2019s third solo show with Gaep.<\/p>\n<p>Marilena Preda S\u00e2nc, who lives and works in Bucharest, is an interdisciplinary artist. She is a professor at the National University of Arts in Bucharest and the author of several texts on art in public space, feminism, and eco-art. Beginning in 1980, her work \u2013 across the mediums of painting, drawing, collage, video, and performance \u2013 has been presented internationally in museums, galleries, biennales, and art fairs.<\/p>\n<p>Public collections that feature her works include the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Arhitekturni Muzej Ljubljana; Kunsthalle, N\u00fcrnberg; and Albertina Art Collections, Vienna. In 2004, she received the Cultural Merit Order and medal.\u00a0In 2017, she won the Sardi per l\u2019arte Back to the Future Special Mention at Artissima, Turin (with Gaep) and, in 2020, the Radio Rom\u00e2nia Cultural Award, Visual Arts category, for her solo exhibition Subjective <em>(De)Constructions<\/em> (also with Gaep, in 2019). Her first solo show at Gaep was <em>but IT Got Too COLD<\/em> (2015).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarilena Preda S\u00e2nc\u2019s exhibition at Gaep offers a compelling insight into a decisive decade of artistic resistance and introspection. (\u2026) The works on view reveal the interplay between corporeal and spatial dimensions in her practice, while also anticipating the ecofeminist concerns that resonate in today\u2019s global discourse. From her early engagement with feminism, nature, and power structures, Preda S\u00e2nc\u2019s 1980s works stand out as both historical documents and ongoing meditations on the human condition \u2013 urgently relevant to our present times,\u201d curator Anna Daneri explains.<\/p>\n<p><em>The exhibition is open from September 19 to October 25.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo: Marilena Preda S\u00e2nc, Serigraphy \u2018Bodyscape\u2019, 1986-87, part of Crochiul min\u021bii\/The Sketch of the Mind, portfolio of 10 prints (detail), Gaep)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marilena Preda S\u00e2nc: Bodyscape 1982\u20131988, a show focused on works the artist created in the 1980s, is scheduled to open at Bucharest gallery Gaep next week. The exhibition covers a large number of collages, photographs with interventions, and drawings that have never been shown before, highlighting \u201ca brave, experimental artistic practice that openly expressed Marilena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}