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Fragmenta Deorum I
by Alexandru Crisan

FRAGMENTA DEORUM II continues Alexandru Crișan’s investigation into the ways in which myth can be reconfigured once its canonical forms have been broken apart. If the first part of the project established a visual laboratory for the mythic body, this second sequence moves deeper into the mechanics of fragmentation itself – into the ways in which images, like ruins, can be read, misread, and dreamt into new existence. The point of departure remains the same: classical sculpture, reliefs, and mythological scenes that once promised a stable relation between story and form. Yet in FRAGMENTA DEORUM II these sources are subjected to an even more rigorous process of decomposition. Bodies are cut, mirrored, layered, and multiplied through an almost architectural procedure. The result is not a collage in the traditional sense, but a system – a matrix in which each fragment participates in a larger, unstable structure. Crișan works less as an illustrator and more as a designer of visual conditions under which the divine refuses to stay intact. This second phase of the project makes the semiotic instability of the image fully explicit. Each work is constructed to hover on the threshold between abstraction and figuration. The viewer is drawn into a field of pareidolia, where faces seem to assemble themselves out of marble folds, limbs appear along axes of symmetry, and the suggestion of narrative flickers in and out of view. Recognition becomes provisional, contingent on distance, mood, and even desire. FRAGMENTA DEORUM II does not simply show myth – it stages the act of reading myth, of trying to make sense of fragments that no longer “obey” a single story.

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Artist Bio/CV

Alexandru Crișan (b. Bucharest, Romania 1978) is a visual artist interested in the existential complementarity of objective and nonobjective forms of expression. To resolve the former, he is an architect. As far as the latter is to be unpacked, his “counter-professional” career in photography began in 2008; his paintings stand, for almost three decades, as the most intimate, borderline atavistic, acts of divulgence. Assuming that taxonomy is of any consequence, he is partial to fine-art photography and Abstract Expressionism. The eclectic nature of his projects is, therefore, a given. His photography is a direct result of compulsive visual disquisitions on impromptu portraiture, architectural equivocations, parametric manipulations, “hybrid storytelling” and evocative conservationism. Crișan’s works have been presented in over 50 international exhibitions, have been published in over 100 peer-reviewed magazines, have received over 500 international awards and nominations, and are part of several privately owned collections and art galleries.