IRINA NEACȘU

HISTORY
Irina Neacșu is a multidisciplinary artist, with complex work bouncing between painting, book art and applied art. With a solid training in architecture, design and art, her artistic expression focuses on botanical subjects, from which she stretches creative lines of abstract painting and conceptual projects. Irina is a botanical artist ASBA (American Society of Botanical Artists). She works and teaches art classes in her studio in Brașov, and is represented by galleries worldwide.

ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK APPEARANCES

2018 // HERBARIUM
HERBARIUM is an artist’s book in 50 copies, all signed and numbered. The herbarium book is a collection of thirty medicinal plants to be found in the spontaneous flora of Romania. Each plant has a pressing paper and a brief text, together with an illustration, to help the recognition of it. All illustrations are made in watercolor by Irina Neacșu. HERBARIUM is a memory on childhood and school on holidays, freedom, and on the beauty of simple things. It is, in the same time, an invitation for parents to provoke their children to another kind of game, outdoor. The book becomes object, each chapter becomes personal, and the recomposing of the pages, after the pressing, becomes an intimate gesture.

2017 // Afterlife
”Afterlife” is an experiment on emotion and memory activation in the particular junction point of love and destruction.
The first Afterlife project is”The Mechanics of the Heart. Afterlife”, the rereading and transformation of the book ”The Mechanics of the Heart”, by Mathias Malzieu, in a personal book, as a witness of all the emotions experienced on reading and the transformation through destruction of the book. In between exaltation and pain, this is the gesture of translation of the object-book into an object-emotion, gesture that works as a creative force for the more ample conceptualization of the experience of reading, of the relation with object, and of the metaphysical acceptation of destruction as transformation.
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