"Faking Perfection" is the second solo exhibition of Romanian artist Andrei Tudoran (b. 1987, Slatina) presented at AnnArt Gallery in Bucharest. Tudoran obtained a doctorate degree in painting from the National University of the Arts Bucharest in 2017, where he also works as a lecturer. Although painting is at the core of his practice, he tries to employ the medium more critically. As he states: my current preoccupations aim to investigate possible resources, strategies, conceptual or formal positions that the painting as a traditional medium can deliver in the current context of the excess image.

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Along paintings, the exhibition showcases drawings and an installation work - all carefully displayed in each room of the gallery space in a balanced chromatic distribution. There are black and white drawings and coloured paintings with infused neon-like brush strokes. Each work waves a corpus of narratives that try to problematise the profound structural transformations of socio-cultural systems of reference and the reconfiguration of the constructed principles of globalisation and its effects. Each visual representation is filled with an abundance of narratives, symbolically charged, resembling a collage of figures and shapes juxtaposed onto the even surface of the canvas.
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Guided by the principle that art cannot exist outside society, the artist shows how the consumption and proliferation of images pushed by the neo-liberal markets, global capitalism and digital technologies creates alienation and the fragmentation of identities. This new reality is informed by a saturation of choices, an amalgam of realities shaped by the hegemony of the images in the post-truth, post-internet era. Essentially, the exhibition "Faking Perfection" explores the configuration of a dystopic world, where excessive consumerism and control over our choices blur the boundaries between what is true and what we perceive as truth from our own personal contaminated frames of reference.

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Faking Perfection, AnnArt Gallery, 14.10 - 26.11