Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, Issue 16
INTERNATIONAL ART PRESENTATION / AL-TIBA9 MAGAZINE 2024 SP
MAGAZINE DETAILS:
Published by Al-Tiba9 Gallery in “Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Issue 016”, September 2024 edition, on pp.10-11, with “”, “, “” / photograph / fineart giclee prints on paper 50 x 50 cm / © Alexandru Crisan 2018
publisher: Al-Tiba9
format: 21 x 29.7cm
year: published in September 2024
Premium museum art paper,
Printed in London.
This limited edition printed art magazine is curated and designed to celebrate the 16th issue of the Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art. ISSUE16 features 57 selected visual artists, designers, and performers from around the world. It is a unique space where individual artists and designers can express their vision and become the original media.
The magazine features on its Front Cover the work “Utopian Visions” by Tianqi Liao from New York (USA), while the Back Cover features the work “Cherry Blossom“ by British artist William Josephs Radford (UK).
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Featured Artists
Adi Segal, Alexandru Crisan, Alina Belyagina, Alina R.J, Amor De Las Esferas Doradas, Ana Pinho Vargas, Andres Bronnimann, Andy Newmerge, Anurag Basak, Aoccho, Camila de Andrade Bianchi, Cesar Mammadov, Denys Tymchyshyn, DeWei Yu, Donna Gough, Edwin Carungay, Ellerie Brust, Fengzee Yang, FEYU (Yu Li), Gino Wong, Gumi Lu, Henna Asikainen, Henry Monk, Jietong Xu, José Crúzio, JR CHUO, Katie Simmons, Kip Harris, Li Wang, Lily D’Olce, Mercedes Segade, Natalia Egorova (Xomeless), Natalia Zanchevskaia, Nataliya Lemesheva, Omar Zaki, Pavel Kaltygin, Qianying Hu, Ramzi Mallat, Robert van de Graaf, Sára Kasanová Bown, Sharon Rose Benson, Shengdi Cui, Sonya Bleiph, Splaces Studio, Taja Spasskova, Tanya Shah, Tianqi Liao, Tommy Goguely, Tong Tong, Vivianne Paris Panigiris, Vytautas Buinevicius, William Josephs Radford, Wizard Tang, Xiangyu Wang, Yasaman Aghili, Yu Mao, Zihao Zhou.
Magazine page: https://www.altiba9.com/shop/issue16-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.