Aurora Király’s installation "50’s or Soft Despair" has recently been presented at New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) x Foreland Art Fair 2021 with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York. Represented by Anca Poterasu Gallery, Aurora Király (b. 1970), who is teaching at the Department of Photography and Dynamic Image of the National University of the Arts in Bucharest and holds a doctoral degree in Photography, has made herself known in the Romanian artistic milieu in two different roles: as a prominent artist and leader of the her generation and as an initiator of cultural and educational projects.
"𝑆𝑐𝑟𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 50’𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑆𝑜𝑓𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑟 (2020) 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑡, 𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑌𝑣𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒 𝑅𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑟 𝑀𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒 𝐼𝑛𝑔𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑟𝑎 𝐾𝑖𝑟𝑎́𝑙𝑦’𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒-𝑠𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑠." - Cristina Stoenescu, on Aurora Király's exhibition "From Somewhere Other than Myself"
A collaborative weekend showcase, NADA x Foreland took place between August 28-29, 2021 at Foreland - a new arts campus in upstate New York - featuring artwork installed in a historic industrial building in the center of Catskill, NY.
In the press: The New York Times.
Watch or rewatch the artist's testimonial in our "Studio Conversations" series earlier this year:
Gallery: