Art Fridays: Studio Conversations with Ciprian Paleologu

Next guest in our “Studio Conversations” series is Ciprian Paleologu (b. 1976), a “Romanian visionary artist” (as he jokingly likes to recommend himself) and the founder of Laborna Gallery, a creative space in Bucharest. He studied painting at the University of the Arts in Bucharest, where he also teaches. Ciprian’s long-time, ongoing artistic focus, called “The Human Project”, began when he was 24 years old and is meant to continue for 24 biennial stages until he is 70 and even after his biological death.

“The Human Project” implies an existential irony and involves two levels of understanding: one formal, visual-artistic, another deductive, projective-speculative. It consists of two main components: “Homage to Helplessness”, a series of exhibitions which demonstrate the tendency of the human being to abandon the creation of spiritual resources; and “The Homodrome”, the construction of a mega-aggregate of “human correction”. In 2020, Ciprian reached the project’s 11th stage,…