Metods of Building
by Sandra Demetrescu/catalogue text for Solo Exhibition Metods of Building, MNAC, Bucharest, 2020
Liliana Mercioiu-Popa is a visual artist who lives and works in Timișoara. She has distinguished herself in recent years by participating in the 2015 and 2019 Art Encounters International Biennial and numerous group exhibitions, national and international, with a notable solo exhibition at MNAC, Bucharest, in 2020, and this year (2023), with the one opened in the Pavilion-ISHO space, which showed that her art is diversely faceted and unexpected. The poetics and/or politics of space related to various historical contexts (collective or personal), with the analysis of their repercussions in the present, as expressions of becoming, or the orientation towards micro- and macro-universes, with the observation of the interactions between the different levels (multiple spatialities) of reality, as well as the observation of tense subject-object interactions constitute the major directions of interest for the artist in recent times.
Born on July 20, 1975 at Târgu-Jiu (Romania).
Lives and works in Timişoara (Romania). Graduates in 1998 the Faculty of Arts
and Design, Painting Dept. in Timişoara (Romania). In 2008 gets PhD degree
in Visual Arts, with paper Poetic Arts in 20th-century Fine
Art. Since 1999 teaches painting at the Faculty of Arts and Design in
Timişoara (Romania).
Organizes exhibitions / interventions with
students in dedicated spaces (Timco Market House, Studio 030202, Theresia
Bastion), alternative spaces (ELBA Factory) or public spaces (Festival of
Timişoara Arts).
Interferes with artistic groups of Timişoara:
IN-FORMAT (a founding member in 2001), Noima (an exhibitor in 2013-2014) and
Avantpost (a member since 2015).
by Sandra Demetrescu/catalogue text for Solo Exhibition Metods of Building, MNAC, Bucharest, 2020
Horizont Magazine, N.4. April 2018
by Maria Orosan-Telea / Revista Arta # 18/2016 Anul VI
By Ileana Pintilie / catalog text for the "Structures in equilibrium" Solo Show / Palatele Brâncovenești Cultural Center
by Marilena Preda Sânc / catalog text for the "Structures in equilibrium" Solo Show / Palatele Brâncovenești Cultural Center
"Structures in Equilibrium", the exhibition visual artist Liliana Mercioiu Popa displays, ambients with drawings, collages, paintings and objects the mysterious and seducing, challenging and offering space the Cuhnia...
By Maria Orosan-Telea / catalog text for the "Structures in equilibrium" Solo Show / Palatele Brâncovenești Cultural Center
by Ileana Pintilie /catalogue text for Solo Exhibition, Jecza Galery, Timisoara, 2014
by Svetlana Mladenov / catalogue text for the Solo Exhibition "On Fluidity", Bel Art Gallery/DANUBE DIALOGUES 2013
by Coriolan Babeti /Album text for "Timisoara of the Young Artists" / Interart Triade Foundation, 2012
by Ileana Pintilie Teleaga / catalogue text for the Group Exhibition / Sanaa - Zollverein Kubus, Essen (Germany), 2010
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