Romanian artists display artworks in Taipei｜Taiwan News

Today we take you to see the works of two Romanian artists: Andreea Medar and Oana Farcas. They’re featured together at a Taipei art gallery. FTV reporter Stephany Yang spoke to the curator to learn more about their life and works.

Andreea Medar is an artist from Romania. Her works are now on display in Taipei. By employing embroidery techniques and using materials such as metal, glass beads, transparent glass, and sequins, she recreated the works of former residents of a village she grew up in Romania. Many women would hand-sew tablecloths and clothes using cheap plastic to make a living.

Queena Chu
Curator
She was born in 1990s. She is a post-communist baby, which means just one year after her birth the country from communist to democracy. All the diagrams changes. She was sent to her parent’s village. Her grandparents raised her up because at that time no one had the money to have a nanny. You can see, this is the grandmother. This village is in the southern part of Romania. A lot of people make their money with making household items.

The work is inspired by Medar’s grandmother, who would spend hours a day sewing. Medar hopes to reignite her childhood memories, preserve and tell the stories of her hometown.

Queena Chu
Curator
Before, it was not plastic, it is actually fabric and all hand-sewn. But as time goes by, all of this was replaced by platic goods. Modern plastics. These people they lost their works and a lot of people moved out of the village. The artist just feels a bit sad about this because she witnessed the changes in the village. Also, she wants to preserve the traditions and the connections of the economy and also the traditions of the people makers. She collected all the plastic things herself and make it as a painting style. She sewed this in different colors to bring us to revisit the actual times. The prosperous times of the village it used to be. She also wants to reimagine how the future of the village will be like.

Another exhibition at the same venue features Romanian artist Oana Farcas. A total of eight oil works explore the theme of chemistry and love.

Queena Chu
Curator
The subject matter is love. You can see a lot of couples. The girls has a lot of different processes. Their psychological process in their mind. The artist trying to explore use her paintings to tell the audience how our sensations have been built and how you perceive the visual appearance.

The two exhibitions aim to give a glimpse into Romanian art and culture.

Queena Chu
Curator
We know a lot of good Romanian artists. We happened to have the chance to visit Romania physically last year in March. We visited a lot of artist studios and realized there are a lot of amazing artists out there. We wanted to bring them to Taiwan and introduce Taiwan’s audience because their culture is different and we can use this as an opportunity to do the cultural exchange. Also, to share different ideas with the local audience here.

The exhibitions will take place till March 2 at the Mind Set Art Center.

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