In Another Life I was a Stone
Ovidiu Toader
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Ovidiu Toader
Stone Scanner, 2023
Stainless steel, glass, aluminium 132 × 68 × 47 cm
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Ovidiu Toader
Critic #7, 2023
Stainless steel & textile paint
55 × 38 × 27 cm
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Ovidiu Toader
Critic #3, 2023
Stainless steel & textile paint
55 × 38 × 27 cm
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Ovidiu Toader
Critic #4, 2023
Stainless steel & textile paint
144 × 65 × 41 cm
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Ovidiu Toader
Princess Mononoke, 2023
Stainless steel & textile paint
130 × 70 × 30 cm
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Ovidiu Toader
Critic #5, 2023
Stainless steel & textile paint
87 × 83 × 38 cm
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Ovidiu Toader
The Watcher 2, 2023
Stainless steel & acrylic paint
184 × 70 × 63 cm
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Catinca Tabacaru Gallery is thrilled to present Romanian artist Ovidiu Toader’s first solo exhibition with the Gallery, In Another Life I was a Stone, curated by Daria Nedelcu.
Ovidiu Toader’s interest in heterotopias dominates the scene of In Another Life I was a Stone. A sterile environment calls to mind the futuristic laboratory where technology intersects magical thinking. Plantoid entities, made of blown metal forms are frozen in mid-motion as they study the remains of an indefinite past staged on a human shaped glass worktable. They are witnesses to an event suspended in time, looking down at a collection of stones which serve as subject of analysis and decoding.
The installation works as a diorama, enclosing a situation where ambiguity persists and a viewer’s body is forced into and uneasy relationship with the objects and actions around him or her. Toader aims to reflect critically and creatively on a problematic present that can be read using a collective key…