Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, Issue 15
INTERNATIONAL ART PRESENTATION / AL-TIBA9 MAGAZINE 2024 SP
MAGAZINE DETAILS:
Published by Al-Tiba9 Gallery in “Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Issue 015”, August 2024 edition, on pp.10-11, with “Hide and Seek“, “Thee, Myself and I“, “Moroi Metabolism“ / photograph / fineart giclee prints on paper 50 x 50 cm / © Alexandru Crisan 2018
publisher: Al-Tiba9
format: 21 x 29.7cm
year: published in August 2024
Premium museum art paper,
Printed in London.
The limited edition ORIGINAL ISSUE15 is a carefully curated homage to the milestone reached by Al-Tiba9 Magazine. Bursting with innovative perspectives, personal narratives, and an array of captivating artworks, it marks a significant moment in Al-Tiba9’s journey. Featuring a diverse selection of 62 artists, architects, and designers from across the globe, this edition is dedicated to showcasing the forefront of contemporary artistry.The magazine features on its Front and Back Cover the photographic work “Kabuki” by the artist LIU CHEN (Vietnam). The Inner Cover showcases the evocative series “Serendipity, Vicissitude” by Ruoyan Er (USA), while the Highlight Cover features a stunning floral painting of Chris Arnold (USA).
Featured Artists
Alexandru Crisan, Alice Stanciu, Anatoly Suzdaltsev, Andrea Alkalay, Arashi Tanaka, Arran Gregory, Brigitte Puschmann, Chara Kontopoulou, Chris Arnold, Christopher Latil, Davina Hsu, Di Tian, Dominique Crowley, Fitasha, Foteini Theocharous, Gayatri Jagtap, Gøneja ✷, Hannah Plishker, Jena Ataras, Jorge Rivera, Kendal Varolgunes, Keyi Liu, Lana Tafanel, Laura Candet, Lisha Liang, Louka Perderizet, Luciano Thomas, Luke Woodford, Marcia (Yibo) Liu, Marco De Gregorio, Mariah Morrell, Max Cavitch, Mengmeng Luo, Misha Waks, Nastya Didenko, Natasha Yankelevich, Nina Gorbenko, Ophira Spitz, Patrick Shaffer, Qinying Cai, Qiurui Du, Rosanna Xiaoyan Zhou, Rowena Liangru Lu, Rubica von Streng, Ruoyan Er, Siyu Liu, Sobe Okoye, Soenn, Sophie Stieger, Stefano Scarafia, Tairan Hao, Teng Xue, Woman the Creator, Xiaohan Jiang, Xinyi Yang, Yimei Zhu, Yooyeon Nam, Yuehan Hao, Yueting Wu, Zhiyan Cai, Ziyi Zhang.
Magazine page: https://www.altiba9.com/shop/issue15-art-magazine
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 – “but one doesn’t shoot the breeze when it comes to architecture, one comes with bricks and mortar where the breeze will shoot”, as he tells his students. 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. Most of his long-term, open-ended photographic series – such as “Minimal White / Minimal Black”, or “Lost Highway / My Car is Your Avatar” – are meditations on loci and human perceptions. The research on and within photography gradually afforded him a surreal vision of immateriality, which he debonairly likes to describe as “tormenting several stages of a hyperrealist mise en abyme”. Since 2015, he developed quite a few “meta-projects”: “Erotoarchitecture”, “Metropoesis”, “Hortus Conclusus”, “Alex Transcends the Balkans for a Bottle of Perfume”, “Mechaniarchy” and “Shoah”, under the compelling awareness and besetting exploration of otherness and of self.
Crișan’s works have been presented in over a dozen international exhibitions, have been published in over 40 peer-reviewed magazines, have received over 400 international awards and nominations, and are part of several privately owned collections and art galleries.