Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, Issue 18
INTERNATIONAL ART PRESENTATION / AL-TIBA9 MAGAZINE 2025 SPAIN
MAGAZINE DETAILS:
Published by Al-Tiba9 Gallery in “Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Issue 018”, May 2025 edition, on pp.10-11, with “Entropia VII (raised by the wolves I’m vivisecting)”, / painting / acrylic on paper 212 x 72cm / (77 x 57cm) x 4 /cat: 524107, 524108, 524109, 524110 (RM5)/ © Alexandru Crisan 2021
publisher: Al-Tiba9, ISSN 2696-2497
format: 21 x 29.7cm
year: published in May 2025
Premium museum art paper,
Printed in London.
This limited edition printed art magazine is curated and designed to celebrate the 18th issue of the Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art. ISSUE18 features 62 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 and Back Cover the work of Ludovic Fleury from France, exploring the body as a site of transformation and vulnerability.
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Featured Artists
Adil Ghani, Alexandru Crișan, Anastasia Egonyan, Anna M. Masiul Gozdecka, Anqi Chen, Ashley Callahan, Aya Shimohara, Barry Anderson, Boris Osipau, Christopher Berwing, Chu Ling-Jung & Tang Zi-Xian, Claudiu Ciobanu, Cossette Fricke, Dalion Huang, Daniela Lozano, Daric Gill, Eagan Hsu, Emma Jowdy, Eunhyung Kim, Filip Moszant, Hanqi Li, Hou Guan-Ting, IDG FORMA (Ioana-Dana Georgescu), Ivaylo Saraliyski, Jason Fairchild, Jiayi Liu, Jie Chen, Jin Young (Jamie) Woo, Kaoru Shibuta, Ksenia Pukk, Latifa Elmrini, Ludovic Fleury, Mahta Salehi, Marcus Brown, Mariam Aziza Stephan, Mike Nott, Mingxuan Zhang, Mosaz (Zijun Zhao), Nastya Akimova, Qian Zhong, Rafael de la Noceda, Rio Skor, Robert Claus, Rolin Yuxing Dai, Ruoyu Gong, Sarah Simpson, Sid White-Jones, Ștefania Iakab, Summer Shepherd – Sheps, Theodor Petruna, Tommy Vo, Xiangying Chen, Xiao He, Xiaoran Fan, Xiyan Chen, Yasuhide Kunimoto, Yezi Lou, YU, Yuta Tamura, Yuyang (Lily) Wei, Yuzuki Aizawa, Zhuyang Liu.
Magazine page: https://www.altiba9.com/art-magazine-issue18
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.
When it comes to the acrylic heart-chambers of his work, there is an uncanny sentiment of intimacy that gradually found its safe house within the lyrical abstractions spectrum. In the aftermath of incipient spiritualist art etudes, transcending a surrealist period of emancipation from the confines of geometry, not to mention a stint in the magical realism of overpainted photographic negatives, an obsessive chase for the “taming of the light within the organic pool of colors” ensued. While this pursuit found its default creative outlet within architecture, it also pushed him towards the logic of abstract expressionism. A decade after he found his eclectic (often nonrepresentational) niche, the most spectacular results were the series “The Human Comedy” (acrylic Balzacian musings on intersectional dead ends), “Discorsi” (color-coded existentialist Q&As), and “Q” (a chromatic synthesis triggered by anxieties and saudade). His works evolved into a symbiosis which he calls “Brutalisme lyrique”. He describes this artistic approach as “a filiation in which the Abstraction Lyrique is a phenomenological motherly figure, while the nybrutalism may claim ontological paternal custody, yet the – ultimately needed – IVF-like metabolic praxeology is delivering the visceral coherence. To put it differently, I now act as a painter (abstract, perhaps) and I final-cut as an architect (deconstructivist, probably).” The “Entropy” series is the pinnacle of this process.
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.