Radu Belcin: Flowing Memories

Introducing Radu Belcin: Flowing Memories, a new monographic publication edited by Uwe Goldenstein and Martin Dyma and published by Selected Artists Edition. This hardcover edition spans 168 pages, offering an insightful exploration of the renowned artist Radu Belcin’s body of work. The book features various essays in English contributed by Demetrio Paparoni, Petr Vanous, Lucia Rossi, and Uwe Goldenstein. This publication provides an in-depth exploration of Radu Belcin’s artistic vision, offering a valuable resource for scholars and art enthusiasts alike.

Radu Belcin—born in 1978 in Brasov, Romania, where the artist continues to work and reside—is a contemporary painter who is best known for his surreal pictures of various figures populating dark landscapes evoking absurd narratives, marked by an almost haunting beauty and an intriguing conceptual undercurrent.

“One could say Radu Belcin is a painter of the night; of twilight. He highlights the dwindling consciousness of our melancholic dispositions, which, in the persistently postive, glaringly lit storm of modern imagery, seems to illuminate the opposite: Darkness, nighttime, being alone in nature; and with it, figuratively, perhaps even symbolically: Regression and latency as reservoir of our oft romantically motivated memories. In an inimitable way, Radu Belcin’s compositions offer us a space—a stage—to reanimate the repressed, the desired, and the forgotten through an identification of his lonely archaically acting figures.” Excerpt written by Uwe Goldenstein

The publication measures 310 x 250 x 22 mm with a hardcover and is priced at € 42,00. Shipping options include DHL with tracking and insurance, available at € 5,49 (Germany), € 12,99 (EU), € 13,49 (Switzerland/UK), and € 21,99 (worldwide). For interested readers in Berlin, the book can be found at Selected Artists, located at Choriner Strasse 49, 10435, with viewings available by appointment. For more information, please consult the website of Selected Artists here.

Radu Belcin, The Architecture of an Illusion, 2022. Oil on linen — 100 x 120 cm.

Radu Belcin, My Own Precious Island, 2023. Oil on linen — 200 x 170 cm.

Radu Belcin, The Fellowship, 2022. Oil on linen — 110 x 95 cm.

Radu Belcin, Hunter, 2020. Oil on linen — 71 x 65 cm.

 

 

Last Updated on July 31, 2023