Jecza Gallery at Vienna International Art Fair The New Contemporary
Postcards From Home
by Michele Bressan
Jecza Gallery, Booth C25, Vienna Fair 2012
www.viennafair.at & www.jeczagallery.com
Jecza Gallery is delighted to invite you at The New Contemporary, Vienna Fair, during 20-23 September, 2012.
Messeplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria – Entrance A
The Jecza Gallery showcases at stand C25, the "world" of Michele Bressan, Italian born artist living and working in Bucharest. Jecza Gallery already presented older works by Michele Bressan from Passato Prossimo series at London Art Fair this year in a group show.
This new project of the young artist, awarded with the Essl Award for photography in 2009, describes his focused path of discovering a new kind of "Romania". Being and not being directly involved in daily life. This unique "Third-Person" approach makes the work of Bressan truly genuine and shows his detached mode of observation.
MICHELE BRESSAN
Born 10.07.1980 in Trieste, Italy
From 1994 lives&works in Bucharest, Romania
Education:
2010: BA in Photography and Video, Academy of Fine Arts Bucharest
2009: Academy of Fine Arts Bucharest, video and photography department
Solo exhibitions:
2011: "Paysages Interieurs", Rue de l'Exposition, Paris
2011: "Vita, Morte e Miracoli" LC Foundation for Contemporary Art Bucharest
2010: "Memories for my Children", ICR Gallery, Paris
2010: "Last Shot" , H'art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2009: "Winter Preview", Maison de l'international, Grenoble, France
2009: "Memories 4 Free", The Ark Gallery Bucharest, Romania
2009: "Rerevolution", Romanian Cultural Institute, Paris, France
2009: "1980" , Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2008: "Found Films", Gallery 29,Bucharest, Romania
2008: "Passato Prossimo",UNA Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2007: "Reminder",Hag Gallery,Bucharest, Romania
Group exhibition:
2012: MONUMENTAL, Jecza Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
2012: Centre wallon d'Art contemporain "La Châtaigneraie", Belgium
2011: E-cité – Musée d'art Moderne Saint Etienne
2011: "Les Rencontres d'Arles" Photo Festival, with Gallery Huit
2011: "Biennale di Venezia – Padiglione Italia nel Mondo"
2011: "Funeraria", National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
2011: "GATE11 International departures" Fondazione Fotografia Modena
2011: "Voiaj" , National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
2010: "Multi-pli-cites", St-art Fair, Apollonia Gallery Strasbourg, France
2010: "Ne tourne pas la tete", Mois de la Photo, ICR Paris, France
2010: "Videozone V", international video art Biennial, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2010: "Mostra", UNA Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2010: "As far as i can tape", Performance Art Institute San Francisco,USA
2010: "New/Now" festival online, Nantes, France
2009: "TUSOVKA New Act", Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2009: "ESSL Award -winners exhibition", ESSL Museum, Wien, Austria
2009: "Romania: 20 of December, 20 years", Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania
2009: "Trans- Form in art education", Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey
2009: "Moldova in Focus" , Gallery VN, Zagreb, Croatia
2009: "Postcards" Neuen Museum, Bauhaus Universitat, Weimar
2009: "Cynicism & Fear", Romanian Cultural Institute, Venice, Italy
2009: "Spazi Aperti", Accademia di Romania, Roma, Italy
2009: "Where i belong" , National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (3/4)
2009: "Ro Archive" , Institut d'Etudes Superieures des Arts, Paris, France
2009: "Romanian Film Festival" , Cervantes Institute of Chicago, USA
2008: "SurExpositions OFF" , French Cultural Centre Timisoara,Romania
2008: "RO Archive", Futura Gallery /Karlin Studios, Prague, CZ
2008: "Preview Berlin" , Berlin, Germany
2008: "Show Off Paris", Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
2008: "Bucharest -between melancholia and hysteria", Czech Centre Gallery,Prague
2007: "Reminder II", VBKO Gallery, Wien, Austria
2007: "Galleria d'Arte III Millennio",San Marco, Venice,Italy
2007: "Portugal Art Biennial", Villa Nova Cerveira, Portugal
2007: "Radical She 2", Arezzo,Castello di Favara,Italy
Publications:
2012: MONUMENTAL, exhibition catalogue published by Jecza Gallery and City Business Centre Timisoara, Romania
2010: "Memories for my Children" exhibition catalogue, ICR Paris, France
2009: "100 to watch" the new directory of romanian creative talent
2009: “Spazi Aperti 2009” Catalogue
2009: "65 +" exhibition catalogue, produced by The Ratiu Foundation
2008: insertion, "Archive in Residence Vienna-Bucharest" catalogue
2008: "SurExpositions" catalogue, with the series "Where i Belong"
2008: insertion,nr.10 Omagiu magazine "XXX"
2008: insertion, nr.11 Omagiu magazine "The Green Issue"
2008: insertion "Interventii 3" catalogue
2008: insertion, nr.12 Omagiu magazine "Rawmania"
2007 : insertion, "International Portugal Art Biennial" catalogue
2007: insertion, "Arte Laguna" catalogue
2007 : insertion, "International Portugal Art Biennial" catalogue
2007: insertion, "Arte Laguna" catalogue
Grants&Residences:
2011: selected for the Venice Biennale 2011 – "Padiglione Italia nel Mondo"
2011: selected for " International Departure GATE11", Fondazione Fotografia Modena
2010: "Constantin Brancusi" fellowship, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, France
2009: Romanian Cultural Institute Paris residence, Paris, France
Awards:
2009: Winner of the ESSL Award for Romania, photography
2009: Henkel Award finalist, photography
2008: SurExpositions Award for the "Young Artist" category, photography
Works in private collections of Italy, America, Romania, France, Austria
