Zina Gallery is pleased to invite you to the duo painting exhibition of two artists: Matei Dumitriu and Luca Florian, entitled joyrider. The opening will take place on Saturday, March 23rd, at the gallery’s main space – 14A Axente Sever – and will be open to the public at 6 PM.

“The walls, each with its own color, and artists’ paintings from different periods and styles, seemingly unrelated, featuring a wide range of subjects, from plasticky trinkets, friends, clouds, a rollercoaster, to a nice thought, a hug or just confusion – got me thinking, as Lauren Berlant puts it: «we have a situation here.» […]

A joyrider is a symptomatic exhibition over a potential of surplus, decisions and out of focus-ness. A joyride can be an activity chosen purely for the sake of being present, with all the exhaustion that comes with it. The exhibition puts together the concrete interplay between paintings, as well as more intimate connections that might be actually felt or not. The playing-out of those levels represents a dynamic process wherein various parts interact and evolve, ultimately leading to a compatible combination of elements. The paintings are curated to communicate through colour, parts of body, sadness, light, irony and suspended similar intentions. And I get it. A joyride these days can be disorienting and frustrating,
with conflicting thoughts and emotions at play.”

– excerpt from the text written by Daniela Custrin.