Radu Buriac - Lights - at Centrul Cultural Palatele Brancovenesti, Mogosoaia, Romania (may-june 2009). photos by Ciprian Ciuclea

Lights and shadows in Foisor
The exhibition of the young graphic artist from Timisoara, Radu Buriac, represents a natural continuation of his research for his Master’s degree paper dedicated to the relation between object and light. The complex theme of the light and the ways to represent it have been obsessing along art history the minds of artists, mostly the painters, but also printmakers in the study and representation of chiaroscuro, respecting the traditional techniques of metal engraving and woodcut. Controlling the strictness and rules of traditional printmaking, Radu Buriac moves forward with a contemporary graphic outcome, a printmaking installation using serigraphic technique combined with collage interventions on wood, paper and glass.
The light in Radu Buriac’s installation is conceptual with a special focus on the interdependence between light and shadows in a dynamic game between positive/negative, object and print. Light and shadow are fundamental elements which define the world and human nature often lost between the fascination of light and the temptation of shadows, between the exigency of knowledge and the frivolity of intellectual comfort.
Lights installation has the esthetic power of graphic performance and the conceptual substance necessary for a complete visual discourse, in a natural inclination towards printmaking, a medium mostly abandoned by contemporary artists. (Olivia Nitis, curator)