Mihai Nicodim Gallery
3143 S La Cienega Blvd
310.838.8884
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Serban Savu at Mihai Nicodim Gallery
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Opens Saturday June 5, 2010 (6–8pm)
June 5, 2010 – July 10, 2010
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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Mihai Nicodim Gallery is pleased to present Unimportant Stories, the second solo show in the gallery of the Romanian artist Serban Savu. Born in 1978, Serban Savu is part of a group of artists from Cluj, Transylvania, schooled in the tradition of Social Realism, who grew up during the fall of the Communist regime and lives and works in Romania as it transitions into a free-market economy. Unimportant Stories opens a window into the lives of present-day Romanians, depicting the day-to-day routine of men and women in a post-Communist era, where, despite the history's lingering narrative, there is steadfast desire to survive and make the best of an existence perpetually at the brink. Serban Savu decorates his quiet grassy landscapes with vestiges of the former Communist-era architecture – apartment buildings, cement fixtures, abandoned concrete blocks and railroad tracks. Curtains of grey or blue sky attempt to darken or lighten the scenes. In the middle ground, the artist places figures, who, given their small size in relation to the canvas, seem hemmed in by their surroundings. The painterly gesture of obscuring their faces communicates the anonymity of their existence and their marginalization and impotence within the gears of a larger sociopolitical machine.
