Art Fights Corona / Dan Badea

In the middle of the pandemic, artists are finding countless ways to continue their practice and lift our spirits. Eight Romanian artists have taken our challenge with the kind of ingenuity one would expect from highly creative minds and are ready to share with us and the world, every week, how the current situation impacts them and their artistic imagination. Our series ART FIGHTS CORONA presents irresistible storyteller, Dan Badea, whose artwork, impregnated with poetic atmosphere, depicts a controlled echo between the real and the imaginary through haunting narratives.

Don’t miss the 7th episode on Facebook and YouTube on June 12 at 2 p.m. New York & Toronto time / 11 a.m. Los Angeles & Vancouver time / 9 p.m. Bucharest time. Watch also on our blog and other social media accounts after the show.

#EPISODE 7 -  DAN BADEA  

Dan Badea (b. 1975, Bucharest) is a seasoned professional artist with numerous personal and collective exhibitions. He focuses on figurative art, aiming to depict the complications of life through a combination of color, texture and symbolism. He often uses collages as a way of layering and mixing the surface with the meaning of the materials. Dan Badea is interested in reviving and reframing all his paintings, overlapping the paint with old cuttings and photographs in different ways according to specific purposes. In this way he creates narratives to act like subversive advertisements for immaterial things such as Memory, Love, The Sublime, Paradise, Death, or the definition of the human being. It is, after all, an artistic attempt at resistance and critique.

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 Watch previous episodes: 

• Ioana Ciocan - May 1, 2020 - Ep.1/8
• Megan Dominescu - May 8, 2020 - Ep. 2/8
• Daniel Rădulescu - May 15, 2020 - Ep.3/8
• Radu Pandele - May 22, 2020 - Ep.4/8
• Mihai Zgondoiu - May 29, 2020 - Ep.5/8
• Vlad Nancă - June 5, 2020 - Ep.6/8 

 Next artist in our program Art Fights Corona / Artists React to the Pandemic:

• Sasha Meret - June 19, 2020