Adelina Ivan
Covorul Olimpic
2016
PVC linoleum, bumbac
220x140 cm
5 kg
Lucrarea „Olympics Carpet” evocă un câmp plin de trandafiri albi și aspirații cu o aură strălucitoare care rămâne totuși, pentru fetițele din ziua de astazi, un pretext grațios pentru a se juca de-a „Nadia”. Covorul devine astfel un simbol, un perimetru care marchează această suspendare a realității.
Adelina Ivan lucrează cu diverse medii, de la video la instalații textile și pictură, în căutarea unor noi forme de relaționare mai fluidă a spațiului domestic cu cel public, a spațiului urban cu cel natural sau social. Practica ei artistică are ca element central geometria, ca spațiu simbolic de rezistență opus structurilor de putere și a mediilor dominante în relație cu istoria personală și abstractizarea socială. În acest cadru, urmărește lucrul cu forme care sunt de obicei asociate cu stabilitatea și ordinea, printr-o serie de exerciții de pliere și depliere ca și instrumente de autoreflexie, de analiză a lumii interioare, subiective, și exprimarea lor în spațiul exterior.
Ea a studiat la Universitatea de Artă din București și a expus la: Plastic Contemporary Cluj (2024), MNAC Bucharest (2023), EWERK Luckenwalde Berlin (2022), Contextile Biennial, Portugal (2022), Cabinet44 Bucharest (2022), SAC Malmaison (2022), MARe Museum of Recent Art Bucharest (2021), Sandwich Bucharest (2021), Litost Gallery Prague (2020), Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature Paris (2019), Spinnerei Leipzig (2019), Kunsthalle Bega (2019), Tokio Art Screening Festival (2019), MNAR Bucharest (2019), MNAC Bucharest (2018), Media Art Festival Arad (2018), Artissima Torino (2018), Anca Poterașu Gallery Bucharest (2018), tranzit .ro / bucurești (2017), Jean-Claude Mayer Gallery Frankfurt (2017), Black and White Biennial Satu Mare Museum of Art (2017), ODD Bucharest (2016), Design Biennale Istanbul (2016), Salzburg Residency (2018) / ERSTE Foundation Grant – Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria, Grundarfjörður Residency (2021) / SEE Grant – Grundarfjörður Iceland, Contextile Residency (2022) / Creative Europe Platform “Magic Carpets” EU Grant, Guimarães Portugal.
Adelina Ivan
Olympics Carpet
2016
PVC floor mat, cotton tassels
220x140 cm
5 kg
The work ‘Olympics Carpet’ is evoking a field full of white roses and aspirations with a shining aura that remain yet, for today little girls, a graceful pretext for playing ‘Nadia’. The carpet is becoming a symbol, a perimeter that defines this suspension of reality.
Adelina Ivan works in a variety of media, from video to textile installations and painting, in search of new forms of more fluid relationships between domestic and public space, urban and natural or social space. Her artistic approach has geometry as a symbolic space of resistance against structures of power and dominant environments in relation to personal history and social abstraction. Her practice is developed on the relationship between geometry and space, using the grid structure seen as a critical frame of organizing and investigating memory. In this framework, she is working with forms that are usually associated with stability and order, through a series of folding and unfolding exercises view as tools for self-reflection, analysis of the inner, subjective world, and their expression in outer space.
She studied at the University of Arts in Bucharest and exhibited at Plastic Contemporary Cluj (2024), MNAC Bucharest (2023), EWERK Luckenwalde Berlin (2022), Contextile Biennial, Portugal (2022), Cabinet44 Bucharest (2022), SAC Malmaison (2022), MARe Museum of Recent Art Bucharest (2021), Sandwich Bucharest (2021), Litost Gallery Prague (2020), Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature Paris (2019), Spinnerei Leipzig (2019), Kunsthalle Bega (2019), Tokio Art Screening Festival (2019), MNAR Bucharest (2019), MNAC Bucharest (2018), Media Art Festival Arad (2018), Artissima Torino (2018), Anca Poterașu Gallery Bucharest (2018), tranzit .ro / bucurești (2017), Jean-Claude Mayer Gallery Frankfurt (2017), Black and White Biennial Satu Mare Museum of Art (2017), ODD Bucharest (2016), Design Biennale Istanbul (2016), Salzburg Residency (2018) / ERSTE Foundation Grant – Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria, Grundarfjörður Residency (2021) / SEE Grant – Grundarfjörður Iceland, Contextile Residency (2022) / Creative Europe Platform “Magic Carpets” EU Grant, Guimarães Portugal.
