ANCA BODEA
Waiting Room, 2008, oil on canvas, 140×160 cm
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BIOGRAPHY
Anca Bodea was born 1982 in Cluj, Romania. She studied at the Art and Design University in Cluj and graduated from the Painting Department in 2007 with magna cum laude. In 2003 she received an Erasmus grant for one year at the Institute des Beaux Arts in Liege, Belgium.
Anca was awarded the Vasile Parvan scholarship from 2006-2008 at the Accademia di Romania in Rome.
In her works the artist expresses the states of mind of her generation by whole body portraits at real size, often broken in half. The fragments are put into an undefined, suggested space. The sitters seem to be suspended in a state of waiting, a sense of resignation to fate. The precision of the drawing, the details of tissue textures and the sometimes strong coloration are interestingly combined with elements of “non finito”. Another theme in Anca Bodea’s work is the home interior; details focused and enlarged become a subject of their own. Through her special sense for illumination and texture she creates an intense and mysterious atmosphere, clues of an untold story.
In 2011 the artist achieved an Internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice.
Anca Bodea’s works are part of the Art in Embassies Collection, U.S. Department of State.
ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS
PERSONA – Touched, taken and & borne. Anca Bodea Paintings
NOCTURNES – Anca Bodea’s untold stories, Nocturnes’ suggested in oil on canvas.
Anca Bodea, “Interior” @ 418 Contemporary Art Gallery – Modernism
Retraim suspansul asteptarii cu Anca Bodea – Casa Lux
Expozitie Anca Bodea la Galeria 418 – Igloo
Upwardly Mobile – Artforum
EXHIBITIONS
2015
T.A.N.G.O./Turning Art Now Gliding Over Art Museum
Museum of Art, Cluj Napoca, Romania
2014
Cetate – Workshop at the Danube VII
418 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
The Fair for Contemporary Art
418 Gallery at Koelner Liste, April 10-13
2013
(En)counterpoint, The Art of Living
Pop-up Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
The Retrospective Exhibition Cetate – Workshops at the Danube 2008-2013
418 Gallery, Bucharest
Persona (solo show)
418 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2012
Cluj Meets Berlin / Bazis
Contemporary art space, Berlin, Germany
Cetate – Workshop at the Danube V
418 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Cetate – Workshop at the Danube IV
418 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2011
Cetate – Workshop at the Danube III
418 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2010 – 2011
Nocturnes I and II (solo show)
418 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2010
Focus Europa, 6. International Contemporary Art
Plassenburg Castle, Germany
2009
Cetate – Workshop at the Danube I and II
418 Gallery, Bucharest
Desires suspended
Casa Matei, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Drei Kunstler aus Rumanien
418 Gallery at G5 Kultur, Munich, Germany
2008
“C”, collective exhibit
Giardini della Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
[CON]Temporary Files – collective exhibit
Accademia di Romania in Rome
SpaziAperti, collective exhibit
Accademia di Romania in Rome, curator Mirela Pribac.
Roma amor
418 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2007
Incontri con l`Est
collective exhibit at Instituto di Storia e Fenomenologia
delle Arti Spazio “Mirionima”, Macerata, Italy
Di sera, in Marzo
the collective exhibit in Accademia di Romania in Rome
Room Esposizioni, Rome
Remelt
this exhibit contained also the works of the sculpture Cristian Raduta at Galleria del`Instituto
Portughese San Antonio, Rome, curator Graziano Menoilascina
New Identities in the Romanian Art after ’90
collective exhibit at the Dana Gallery, Iasi, curator Felix Aftene
Organizer and participant to the contemporary
art event SpaziAperti – organized by the
Accademia di Romania in Rome, Italy
Personal painting exhibit
Bulgakov Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
WORKS IN ART COLLECTIONS
Art in Embassies United States Collection
Private collections in USA, Canada and Germany