Interview Tag

In November 2021, Czech artist Adéla Janská opened her solo show at IOMO Gallery in Bucharest, the chance not only to enjoy her work, but her charming presence as well. She was so kind to give feedback to my questionnaire and illustrate it with some images from her studio.     Sibi-Bogdan Teodorescu: Your work has been attached to a certain form of feminism, according to sources as thesomethingmachine.com , for instance; do you identify with? In my opinion your pictures are more of a synthetic image of the woman as an icon or an emblem, since their body recall rather a sort of reshaping into something close to sculpture and patterns.  Adéla Janská: I cannot say that I have been identifying with it. To be honest , if is not so  essential for me. On one side, it is interesting to observe how my work is interpreted and at which context it is involved. On the other hand, the crucial thing is my activity at the studio. For me, the process is more imp...

  I accompanied Hermes Luaces for a couple of hours through the streets of Bucharest waiting his train to Tescani, Bacău , a residence for the artists. In 2008 he won the George Enescu Museum first prize for composition in the bigger frame of the International Enescu Festival . After a while we found each other again in Bucharest. Each time we talked, we shared beautiful, consistent thoughts. Some of his ideas never left me, but it's only now I manage to do this interview and resuming some of the discussed ideas.          Hermes Luaces, 2018, © Fundaci ó n BBVA Sibi-Bogdan Teodorescu: In his Secret life, Salvador Dali, arguably the author of an opera, describes how he attacked a young violinist with the simple reason to demonstrate painting was superior to music. If this were pertinent, what would be your opinion? Hermes Luaces: Well, Dalí was a great artist but also a great showman. It is difficult to know what he really pretended wit...

I met Andrei on 17 February 2022, at the opening of IMPRINT, a collective show curated by Domenico de Chirico for Sector1 Gallery in Bucharest and soon noticed his distinctive works, amongst a lot of others by many good artists. With a little help from a friend, we had there some lively conversation, which preceded this interview.   Sibi-Bogdan Teodorescu: Let's start where your adventure started. You can tell me whatever you like. It's always tempting to search how all of these artists you see on Instagram got there. What was their journey? There are a lot of very interesting new artists, some very present, others rather discreet. What is your story? Andrei Pokrovskii: In terms of just drawing, everyone gives the same answer: I always drew, I started since I was a little child or I started since my very early childhood. I was always interested in following that but I didn't think about a career up until the high-school. That was the moment when I started thinking wha...