20/01/2019 Severine Grosjean
Liviu Bulea is a young Romanian artist and curator. His artistic activity is characterized by personal projects with a local and national impact, indissolubly linked to his personal life and his experiences. His works are experiences of intimacy, pain or sexuality. The artistic practice explores the deepest feelings of each human being, from drama to love. He develops his history from photography to sculpture by reconstructing a coherent whole marked by condemned time. The images of the territories explored throughout his life produce a story talking not only about the problems of the Romanian society, but also about the inner being of the human.
This is the case in his photographic work addressing the issues of the hospital and the patient’s condition. Liviu Bulea had a health problem and wanted to denounce those almost animal conditions. Liviu Bulea represents pieces of elements building a cold atmosphere. The alternation of white and green tones creates a game that everyone tries to participate. These vestiges of a place that seems to return from the ruined past appear a long and sinister nightmare where the walls fall. Although this hospital seems to come from another time, it continues today. Liviu’s work is not nostalgic and there are not romantic or poetic environments. However, it can be seen some relations with the fantastic world of Tim Burton.
Born in a lost place in Romania where social disasters do not want to leave the population, Liviu explores this recurrent theme of the contemporary ruins of a Soviet Industrial Era by locking and destroying hopes, in a dialogue between architecture and the fusion of personal experiences. Wounded by a communist past, Romania is a field where industrial ruins draw an absurd atmosphere. The objects emanating from the buildings are recovered as in his work # 808080 “. The forces of the materials are transferred to create an abstract work.
The vibrations are recognized. You can not forget the daily life of before. This conversion involves a tense assembly experiencing the union between different physical and mental structures: time, feelings and place.
The landscapes captured by Liviu reflect the desolation. Buildings breed danger as their work on chemical factories, where health is in the process of disappearing. Life is gone. The remaining waste represents an ecological danger for the population. The waste of the ancient Romanian pursue the present and the future of a generation. Liviu’s works are devastating testimonies talking about human and nature. This coexistence disturbs the viewer. This disturbing vision of incredible landscapes is captured by its human violence. His sculptures, made of cement and traces of a captivating green tone, make us think of our own relationship with a process that we have created and that remains, unfortunately, irreversible.
The young artist tries to put in full light places and human conditions which are consequences of an irreversible and violent progress. His photographs or sculptures highlight the weakness of a world harboring deplorable situations. They are a reflection of life in our civilization.
Partnership: The Nomad Creative Projects
