Mircea Roman's theatre of powerlessness, of human frailty, acquiescence, vulnerability and subjection is not written, but minutely crafted. His work consists of a procession of broken wooden containers, of aggressively painted body-cases, and open boxes endowed with human limbs. They have torsos and heads, exhibiting pulp breasts and rough, humble feet together with their innermost emptiness, the excruciatingly deep and dull, accurately delineated craters of their missing substance, their absent core. People from no-where, making no-things. Erwin Kessler, Flesh Box, exhibition catalogue
Mircea Roman is a renowned Romanian artist, who lives and works in London and Bucharest. He is the recipient of the Great Prize of the Osaka Sculpture Trienalle (1992) and the Delfina Studios' award (London, 1993/94). Solo exhibitions: Disorient Express (Peasant Museum, Bucharest, 2006), One Man Show (Riverside Studios, London, 2000) and Man Wessel - Temporary Landmark Sculpture on Thames (2000). Group exhibitions: Fin de Siecle, Riverside Studios (London, 1999), Sculpture Trienalle, Osaka (1998), "3+1", Beaux Art Gallery (London, 1997).
The exhibition is accompanied by the screening of Disorient Express by Mariana Gordan.
Throughout her years in London, the Romanian-born artist has produced numerous exhibitions and commissions, both public and private, such as mosaics for London Transport at Oxford Circus, Tottenham Court Road and Finsbury Park Stations. Disorient Express is her most recent production of autobiographical pieces.
Dulwich Festival is run as an independent charity by a small group of local volunteers and aims to make a broad variety of artistic and cultural events easily available to the whole Dulwich community.
When: 11-13 & 19-20 May, 10am - 6pm
Where: 182 Court Lane, Dulwich, London, SE21 7ED
Free entrance.
