“Gaep Presents” | 5 Rapid Fire Questions for Adrian Cojocaru
Adrian Cojocaru: Acts of In-Between — a story of food and art, and of the rituals and environments for their creation — will mark the debut of a new multiyear programme of exhibitions, “Gaep Presents”.
The solo show features six large-scale works that blend charcoal drawing on canvas with richly textural painting. Informed by a fine dining experience, this body of work takes us behind the scenes, both in a restaurant and in the artist’s studio, to look at what diners and viewers don’t usually see.
Ahead of the opening on July 19, we sat down with the artist for a quick look at the intersection of food and art in his own life.
“Gaep Presents” is a new programme of exhibitions that focuses on work by emerging artists and by established collaborators of the gallery other than the artists it represents. The programme builds upon the four iterations of ACCELERATOR, the mentoring projects for emerging artists in which Gaep has been a partner since 2022, and on diverse collaborations with artists in the gallery’s 10-year history. Adrian Cojocaru: Acts of In-Between (July 19 — August 16, 2024) is the first exhibition in the series.
Adrian Cojocaru (b. 1993) works to celebrate the richness of contemporary human experience through the medium of painting. By integrating walking into his artistic practice and photographing his immediate surroundings, he has accumulated a large number of images that serve as source material alongside pop culture and art history. A sense of displacement and longing caused by his dual upbringing in Eastern and Western Europe is a silent undercurrent running through his paintings, which often feature activities, jobs, and experiences that tend to be overlooked. Cojocaru has been an Erasmus+ student at PXL-MAD School of Arts in Hasselt, Belgium, and has just completed an MA in Painting at the National University of Arts ‘George Enescu’ in Iași. In 2023, he was one of the ten participating artists in ACCELERATOR Brașov, a mentoring project organized by Asociația Culturală Eastwards Prospectus in partnership with Gaep and The Art Museum of Brașov.
