Garage *
Description
Executed in: 2010
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 35 x 50 cm (unframed)
Signed and dated on the reverse Șerban Savu 2010.
Provenance
Private Collection, Romania.
Location
Bucharest
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Description
Șerban Savu (b. 1978, Sighișoara, Romania) is a leading figure of the Cluj School of painting that coalesced in the early 2000s, alongside artists such as Adrian Ghenie, Mircea Suciu, or Marius Bercea. His paintings have been shown in numerous important galleries and institutions internationally, in Germany, Romania, South Korea, France, the United Kingdom, or the US. The muted colours of Savu’s figurative works, often depicting scenes of everyday life in the dilapidated landscapes of postsocialist Romania, evoke the social and economic uncertainty that marked the years following the 1989 Revolution.
The influences that Socialist-Realism has had on Savu can be seen in Garage (2010), albeit the notion of work is taken to an almost absurd level. Seen from above as if from the balcony of a Communist-era block of flats is a group of six individuals gathered around a metallic structure. As four casually dressed men attempt the Sisyphean task of lifting up the old garage, the two other characters find themselves disengaged in their proximity.
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