VISTAS, MIST AND CLARITY
Apparatus 22, My crusade for love, 2022
VISTAS, MIST AND CLARITY
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2015
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textiles with twelve painted texts, acrylic paint, metal
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60 x 170 x 190 cm
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Apparatus 22, My crusade for love, 2022

Apparatus 22 is a transdisciplinary art collective founded in January 2011 by current members Erika Olea, Maria Farcas, Dragos Olea together with Ioana Nemes (1979 - 2011) in Bucharest, Romania. Beginning with 2015 they are working between Brussels and Bucharest. They see themselves as a collective of dreamers, researchers, poetic activists and (failed) futurologists interested in exploring the intricate relationships between economy, politics, gender studies, social movements, religion and fashion in order to understand contemporary society. A recent topic of research and reflection in the practice of Apparatus 22 is their SUPRAINFINIT universe: a world-making attempt to use hope critically in navigating the present and future. In their very diverse works –installations, performances, text based-shapes– reality is mixed with fiction and storytelling, and all merge with a critical approach drawing knowledge & experience from design, sociology, literature, and economics.

Selected solo and group exhibitions: La Biennale di Venezia 2013, Kunsthalle Wien (AT), MUMOK, Vienna (AT), BOZAR, Brussels (BE), Museion, Bolzano (IT), Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (BE), Kunsthal Gent (BE), Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (AT), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE), Contemporary Art Museum (MNAC), Bucharest (RO), La Triennale di Milano (IT), TRAFO Gallery, Budapest (HU), Futura, Prague (CZ), Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Warsaw (PL), Onomatopee Eindhoven (NL), TIME MACHINE BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART, D-0 ARK UNDERGROUND, Konji (BIH), Osage Foundation (Hong Kong), Closer Art Centre, Kiev (UA), Brukenthal Museum Contemporary Art Gallery, Sibiu (RO), CIAP, Hasselt (BE), Barriera, Turin (IT), Survival Kit festival, LCCA Riga (LV), Autostrada Bienniale Prizren (XK), MAK, Vienna (AT), Steirischer Herbst, Graz (AT), Drodesera Festival, Dro (IT), TRIUMF AMIRIA. Museum of Queer Culture (RO) etc.

Recent press:

Critics' Pick in Artforum, 2023

Inhabiting Suprainfinit, essay in Revista ARTA, 2023

Exhibition Review in The Quietus, 2023

Focus on Romanian queer artists in Frieze Magazine, 2023

Feature article in DAMN Magazine, 2023

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M series (Speculative Still Life)
M series (Speculative Still Life)
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2016
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STILL LIFE (2)
STILL LIFE (2)
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2016
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painting installation (textile, acrylic and UV paint, neon UV light)
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148 x 100cm | neon 60cm
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 STILL LIFE (1)
STILL LIFE (1)
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2016
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painting installation (textile, acrylic and UV paint, neon UV light)
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148 x 100cm | neon 60cm
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FF series
FF series
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2016
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painting (print on textile, acrylic)
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150 x 100cm
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VISTAS, MIST AND CLARITY
VISTAS, MIST AND CLARITY
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2015
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textiles with twelve painted texts, acrylic paint, metal
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60 x 170 x 190 cm
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Trinity, Triangle, Treesome no. 2
Trinity, Triangle, Treesome no. 2
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2020
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installation (transformed vintage black leather jackets, oil paint, acrylic paint, three vintage tripods)
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silhouette 1: 174 x 80 cm, silhouette 2: 160 x 90 cm, silhouette 3: 190 x 130 cm
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BANNER 11:11
BANNER 11:11
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2022
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leather, rubber
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137 x 155 cm
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unique
BANNER 45:54
BANNER 45:54
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2023
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leather, wood
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156 x 78 cm
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unique
As twilight uncrowns the shade
As twilight uncrowns the shade
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2022
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object (metal, leather, wood)
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130 x 78 x 48 cm
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Unique
Program me for ecstatic abandon
Program me for ecstatic abandon
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2022
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installation (leather, foams, marble, metal chain)
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170 x 300 cm
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Unique
APPARATUS 22
M series (Speculative Still Life)
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M series (Speculative Still Life)
APPARATUS 22
STILL LIFE (2)
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STILL LIFE (2)
APPARATUS 22
STILL LIFE (1)
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 STILL LIFE (1)
APPARATUS 22
FF series
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FF series
APPARATUS 22
VISTAS, MIST AND CLARITY
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VISTAS, MIST AND CLARITY
APPARATUS 22
Trinity, Triangle, Treesome no. 2
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Trinity, Triangle, Treesome no. 2
APPARATUS 22
BANNER 11:11
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BANNER 11:11
APPARATUS 22
BANNER 45:54
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BANNER 45:54
APPARATUS 22
As twilight uncrowns the shade
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As twilight uncrowns the shade
APPARATUS 22
Program me for ecstatic abandon
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Program me for ecstatic abandon
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