ICONOFLUX Explores Sacred and Profane in Romanian Art at Arsmonitor Bucharest

Key facts

• ICONOFLUX features works by 12 Romanian artists: Horia Bernea, Eva Chapkin, Alexandru Chira, Ion Dumitriu, Florin Mitroi, Gili Mocanu, Anca Mureșan, Ciprian Mureșan, Diana Popuț, Șerban Savu, Mihai Sârbulescu, and Bogdan Vlăduță.
• The exhibition was first presented this summer at the Cluj-Napoca Art Museum as part of Praxis! Emergent Curator’s Days.
• It has been reconfigured for the Arsmonitor space in Bucharest, with the selection of works rethought in relation to the gallery’s architecture and dimensions.
• The list of artists remained unchanged between the two presentations.
• ICONOFLUX stems from inquiries into the circulation of the iconic of a sacred nature in contemporary Romanian art from the 1970s to the present.
• It is a research-based curatorial project and the first in a broader series that does not aim to provide definitive answers but to make visible possible correspondences between generations, historical contexts, and different artistic mediums.
• The exhibition highlights multifaceted typologies of the sacred-profane antinomy, tracing how the sacred transgresses art history and local historical circumstances while the profane often retains references to the sacred iconic.
• ICONOFLUX reveals the persistence of forms and formulas that transcend historical and generational circumstances.