Today's guest in our “Studio Conversations” series is Ciprian Paleologu (b. 1976), a “Romanian visionary artist” (as he jokingly likes to recommend himself) and the founder of Laborna Gallery, a creative space in Bucharest. He studied painting at the University of the Arts in Bucharest, where he also teaches. Ciprian’s long-time, ongoing artistic focus, called “The Human Project”, began when he was 24 years old and is meant to continue for 24 biennial stages until he is 70 and even after his biological death.
“The Human Project” implies an existential irony and involves two levels of understanding: one formal, visual-artistic, another deductive, projective-speculative. It consists of two main components: “Homage to Helplessness”, a series of exhibitions which demonstrate the tendency of the human being to abandon the creation of spiritual resources; and “The Homodrome”, the construction of a mega-aggregate of “human correction”.
In 2020, Ciprian reached the project’s 11th stage, entitled “And then…”, with an exhibition presented at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest (MNAC) (December 2020-March 2021).
Ciprian’s creation is defined by uniqueness and has a sort of utopian approach, coming with a burden in his lifestyle which made him describe its right ingredients as 99% irony, 49% art and 66% science. For him, the art STUDIO is his genius brain’s fitness & spa with a 24/7 schedule.
