Marius Bercea la Chung King Project

Marius Bercea


Marius Bercea, “Time Will Tell”
Chung King Project, Los Angeles
Jan. 17th – Feb. 21st

Chung King Project is delighted to present “Time Will Tell”, a series of new work by Marius Bercea. The young Romanian painter who currently lives and works in the city of his birth, Cluj-Napoca (capital city of the province of Transylvania), caught the European art world’s imagination with his series of vivacious, Naples-yellow paintings whose subjects derive from what the artist describes as an ‘intensely personal archive’. Like these earlier paintings, this current body of work owes its genesis to images sourced from family photographs, newspaper clippings and personal memories of growing up. Yet, unlike the earlier paintings that succeeded in evoking the happiness found in the kind of simple moments of childhood pleasure that transcend geographical and political boundaries and provoke nostalgia among adults everywhere: fondly remembered games, school trips and public holidays, Bercea’s new works tend instead towards the engendering of unease and discomfort. We are presented with dreams that will never be realised, hopes that have failed to be fulfilled and scenes such as abandoned amusement parks once intended for children that have become the haunts of the disturbed, the lonely and the dispossessed ( .. )
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