GAEP at miart 2025 with a group presentation
We are pleased to announce our participation in miart 2025 – Milan’s international art fair – with a group presentation of works by Răzvan Anton, Théo Massoulier, Cătălin Pîslaru, and Mihai Plătică.
On view from April 4 to 6 at Allianz MiCo Central, GAEP’s booth will spotlight two new sun prints by Anton, alongside assemblages by Massoulier, paintings by Pîslaru, and photographs by Mihai Plătică. A common thread running through these artists’ practices is a desire to push the boundaries of their mediums of choice, either by developing hybrid forms or by integrating industrial materials with traditional ones.
For his works, situated at the border between drawing and photography, Răzvan Anton uses a distinctive sun printing (heliographic) technique. He starts by scribbling paper sheets with a blue ball pen, then places a transparent screen with the found image on them and, finally, exposes them to sunlight for weeks or months on the windows of his studio in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The two archival images on which the works for miart are based are stills from super 8mm films shot by the artist’s father in the 1970s and 1980s.
Théo Massoulier’s work is centred on hybrid structures. In the ‘5G’ series of sculptures, which look like jewel-coloured micro-landscapes, the French artist synthesizes minerals and plants with scraps of human technē. His examination of the increasingly hazy taxonomic distinctions between natural (biological) and synthetic (technological) continues in the series titled ‘Sensor’. Massoulier is particularly interested in the autonomy of modern machines and devices, which have their own ways to process information and communicate with one another and with their environment without a human agent, and in the humans’ emotions towards self-aware automatons.
Cătălin Pîslaru works in series of paintings that merge a vibrant use of color, conceptual construction, and formal humor. The Chișinău-born, Düsseldorf-based artist sketches his compositions digitally and builds them by hand with delicate lines that meet pigment-thick shapes. The results preserve the neatness of the digital visual language, but also show the marks of classic painting techniques. Forgoing canvas, he experiments with materials such as HPL panels.
An attempt at expanding our vision beyond the naked eye and our curiosity beyond the known is characteristic to Mihai Plătică. The artist’s recent body of work is inspired by the “Harvard Computers” – the women hired beginning with 1881 to study the Harvard Observatory’s photography collection. The works selected for miart are either directly connected to this collection (the photogravures on iron plates which replicate old images of stars) or build upon the idea of making the invisible visible through full-spectrum photography and photoelasticity.
Art fair details
miart 2025
GAEP, Booth A14
With the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute
Address
Allianz MiCo Central, gate 5, viale Scarampo, Milan
Opening Hours
4–5 April: 11:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
6 April: 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
