This February, the David Nolan Gallery in New York will present 'Across the Trees: Romanian Art Now', an exhibition featuring the work of six young artists from Cluj, the capital city of Transylvania and reputed as one of today’s most compelling centers of emerging art.* Adrian Ghenie, Ciprian Muresan, Cristi Pogacean, Serban Savu, Miklos Szilard and Gabriela Vanga represent a unique generation that occupies a fascinating position in Europe. While their childhoods were rooted in communism, their adolescences were spent witnessing the disintegration of the former regime and the introduction of the capitalist ideology. Having come of age during this uncertain, political flux, their works are infused with what has been described by critics as “a certain immunity to Utopia.”

Exploring the ideologies, political systems and expectations that constrain the individual, the exhibition is a bittersweet realization of how each human being is responsible for change in our world. The exhibition was conceived and curated by Jane Neal and made possible thanks to Mihai Pop, artist/curator of Galeria Plan B, Cluj, and the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York. The exhibition runs through March 30.
  
The exhibition opening (February 23, 6-8 pm) will also be preceded (5-6 pm) by a panel discussion and encounter with many of the artists. Adrian Ghenie, Victor Man and Gabriela Vanga, joined by exhibition curator Jane Neal, and Mihai Pop, artist and curator of Galeria Plan B in Cluj, will take part in the panel co-organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute and the David Nolan Gallery.

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[* ‘Across the Trees’ is the literal translation of ‘Transylvania’. Image: 'Communism never happened' by Ciprian Muresan]