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Daniel Balanescu

Oxford
I graduated from 1998 National University of Arts Bucharest, Bachelor of Design in Textile Design Romania – Printing Works Department . I am a social artist

  You cross borders. You cross mental attitudes. You can’t remain in one place. Sometimes you cross so you’ll live better, looking for a better job, a place where you’ll feel better, maybe sometimes you’ll even cross to go where loves calls you. Other times you are pushed from behind, chased away by wars, dictatorships or natural disasters. Even when you think you’re staying in one place, when you extract yourself from the present and isolate yourself in your own private world, refusing to leave your city, your house or your space for years in a row, you are still a fish scale that moves along with the fish it clings to. And that constantly moving fish is time. 

 
  • Education and training
    1992 – 1998 National University of Arts Bucharest, Bachelor of Design in Textile Design Romania – Printing Works Department
  • Selected projects, personal & group exhibitions:
  • 2020 – 11 January -Blaue Stunde- Alte Feuerwache- Cologne [DE]
  • 2019 – 24 October - Selves and I - Mount Gallery, Mayfair,London [UK]
  •             -24 March – Romanian Independent Artists – 59 Rivoli, Paris [FR]
  • 2018 – 6 Jan – Blaue Stunde VIII -Fern.Weh, – Cologne [DE]
  • 2017 –   25 Nov. ‘Where’s the Art?’ CARU Anniversary Event – Ovada Gallery -Oxford, UK
  • 13 May What the Wind told the Tree Tops by Joelle Pappas – Pegasus Theatre – costumes -textiles , Oxford
  • 2016- ColourWays- workshop St Luke’s Church, Oxford ,8 weeks experimenting with colors -UK
  • – Home Fest – Bucharest -The Unfinished Journey- RO
  • 2015- ‘Where’s the Art?’ | CARU 2nd Anniversary-Modern Art Oxford performance :
  • with  Macarena Ortuzar and Nini Sakhri – [UK]
  • – Safe to cross – workshop St Luke’s Church, Oxford , [UK]
  • 2014 -The Big Question Mark – Diana Bell , Fringe Festival , Edinburgh [UK]
  • – I am The System- Aiurart Contemporary Art Space -Bucharest, [RO]
  • 2014 – Emotion Tickets -Fluxjob-MCBA Minnesota Centre for Book Arts-Minneapolis[ US]
  • 2013 – Renaissance – installation – Le Parc de St Symphorien des Monts [FR]
  • 2012 – Emotion Tickets – Hysterical Monument – NAG Noaptea Alba a Galeriilor Bucharest, [RO]
  • 2012 –  Keep the message, pass the frame on to a child – with Asdesign95
    UIA International Union of Architects, Tokyo [JP]
  • 2012 –  Keep the message, pass the frame on to a child, Aiurart Contemparary Arts Centre,Bucharest [RO]
  • 2011 –  Noah ´s Ark Project – installation with Maxim Corciova, HALMA The European Network of Literary Centres, different places from Germany to Port Cetate [RO],
  • 2011 – Noah ´s Ark Project – installation with Maxim Corciova, The Long Night of Museums Jean-Marc Laik Gallery – Koblenz [DE]
  • 2011 – textile prints, Europe in Europe exhibition, Budapest [HU]
  • 2011 – Attraversare – Mixed techniques on canvas – St. Florian [AT]
  • 2010 – Blaue Stunde – Galerie 11 – Köln [DE]
  • 2009 – Between Evil and Good – Human Rights Exhibition, Complesso Monumentale
  • Belvedere di San Leucio, Caserta, [IT]
  • 2009 – Luna Asleep – International Art Action Project, Worldwide-Artists For Peace –
    Galeria Dolmabahce, Istanbul [TR]
  • 2009 – Mixed Techniques on Canvas – The Zone Zero, 1st InternationalEnvironmental Art Symposium – Gallikos river [GR]
  • 2009 – Body and Soul – installation – Living Gallery Lecce [IT]
  • 2008 – Angels and no Angels – Esto No Es Una Galeria – Bogota [CO]
  • 2007 – Attitudes – Textile Prints, Carturesti, Bucharest [RO]
  • 2007 – Mixed Techniques on Canvas, Symposium modern-art, Mallnitz [AT]
  • 2006 – 2007 Installation with Gabrijela Turturea – Art Paper – Balkanart-Cacak [RS]
  • 2005 – Make Friends, Not War – painting on wood – Art gallery Ripustus, Hameenlinna[FI]
  • 2002 – Drawings on subway tickets, Henkel – Vienna [AT]
  • 2001 – Project with subway tickets – 25 Years of subway Brussels [B]
  • 2000 – Miniature Textiles – Group exhibition, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest [RO]
  • 2000 – Group exhibition – International Visual Arts Fair TIAV 2000 – Bucharest [RO]
  • 1997 – Sacred Man – textile prints, personal exhibition, Romanian Cultural Center,Budapest [HU], Romanian Academy, Rome [IT], Romanian Cultural Center, Venice [IT]
  • 1997 – mixed technique and experimental art – group exhibition – Romanian Cultural Center, Paris [FR]
  • 1996 – graphics and painting – personal exhibition – European Commission Delegation – Bucharest [RO]
  • 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998 – Student Fest , Timisoara – experimental art , mixed media , http://osut.ro/projects/studentfest/?lang=en [RO]
  • Scenic painter and special effects on costumes for movie productions
    2003 – 2006 Art and Costume Department of different productions:
    The Last Drop’, ‘Cerberus’, ‘The Cave’, ‘The Black Arrow’,
    ‘Gunpowder, Treason & Plot’, ‘Modigliani’, [RO]

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