“Conversations in training mode is a video project I started after I moved to the countryside (2011) in the house where my grandparents had lived and where my mother was born. Brebi is a remote village in north-western Romania where I have spent some accumulated years as a child.
Having returned there for an indefinite stay, I developed some new attitude towards solitude. I had this conversation about everything going on in my mind the whole time. My main interest there was the garden but I was constantly asking questions about what everything means, what it means to me, what do I care about?
I tried to reproduce at least the feeling, if not the subjects of this conversation using myself as two individual characters that interact and exchange thoughts.”
(Sebastian Moldovan, Brebi – Romania, 4 August 2014)
Sebastian Moldovan is a Romanian artist born in 1982. He graduated from the University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca and attended L'École Regionale des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France in 2004. He is known for his conceptual installations, video works, drawings and photos. He participated in the Venice Biennale (RCI Gallery) in 2013, in Dada East? Romanian Context of Dadaism, Prague Biennale, Bucharest Biennale and other contemporary art events. In Israel, he is known for the installation “Cancer Sprouts” presented in the first edition of The Mediterranean Biennale (Haifa, 2010), presented with the support of RCI Tel Aviv. He collaborates constantly with curators like Anca Mihuleț, Simona Nastac, Adrian Notz and others. In 2014, his project „Meltdown” was presented in a solo show at Galerie Jan Dhaese, Gent, Belgium.
Tel Aviv Artists’ House was established in 1948 by the Painters and Sculptors Association in Tel Aviv, which became the Painters and Sculptors Association in Israel since 2002. The headquarters of the Association in its beginnings, it is now developed into a complex of galleries and workshops, hosting each month new exhibitions by Israeli and international artists.
Full schedule of the Artists’ House: http://artisthouse.co.il/.
Address: 9 Alharizi st., Tel Aviv, tel. 03-5246685.
The galleries are open to the public as follows: Monday - Thursday 10:00-13:00 and 17:00-19:00, Friday 10:00-13:00 and Saturday 11:00-14:00.
Our thanks go to: Arie Berkowitz and Dafna Graif
