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418 Contemporary Art Gallery

Opened in 2008 in Bucharest by Joana Grevers, an art historian with Romanian roots and Guy K. Williamson, an American art collector

Intrarea Armasului 12, district 1

418 Contemporary Art Gallery opened in 2008 in Bucharest, Romania.

The founders are Dr. Joana Grevers, an art historian with Romanian roots and Guy K. Williamson, an American art collector. During the last years the profile of the gallery has focused in two distinct directions. On one hand promoting young cutting edge Romanian artists: like sculptor/composer Cristian Raduta from Bucharest, kinetic art sculptor Stefan Radu Cretu from Sibiu, figurative painter Anca Bodea from Cluj, the Timisoara based young abstract painter Petrica Stefan and the surrealistic painter Maria Manea from Bucharest. On the other hand, the gallery is dedicated to the survey of the Romanian avant-garde of the 60s, a period when realistic socialism was imposed by the communist regime. During this oppressive system, very few artists where daring to go another path, the path of “abstraction behind the iron curtain”. From Timisoara, Romul Nutiu develops his form of abstract expressionism, Diet Sayler (Timisoara/Nurnberg) and Roman Cotosman (Timisoara/Philadelphia) focus on geometrical abstraction; Vincentiu Gigorescu (Bucharest/Milano) shows an early inclination towards geometrical abstraction in painting and then focuses on the materiality of the canvas itself; Sorel Etrog (Jassy/Toronto) renowned diaspora abstract sculptor. The gallery’s vision is to bring out internationally our young artists and to introduce them. Our goal is to create a solid and reliable profile of a Bucharest-based contemporary art gallery in the emerging art market from South-Eastern Europe.

The 418 gallery together with the Joana Grevers Foundation sustains every summer since 2008 the Cetate Arts Danube artists in residence event, where five to eight artists are invited to work on the former family estate.

Contacts & Details
OPENING:
wed, thu, fri 11:00 am – 7:00 pm

CLOSING DAYS:
mon, tue

BY APPOINTMENT:
sat, sun

T: +40 747 480 630
M: 418gallery@gmail.com
W: 418 Contemporary Art Gallery

ADDRESS
Intrarea Armasului 12, district 1

ESTABLISHED
2008
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Represented Artists
Stefan Radu Cretu
Artist
Sorel Etrog
Artist
Vincentiu Grigorescu
Artist
Romul Nutiu
Artist
Cristian Raduta
Artist
Diet Sayler
Artist
Stefan Petrica
Artist
Maria Manea
Artist
Roman Cotosman
Artist
Anca Bodea
Artist
Past Exhibitions
Exhibitions
An Abstract Feeling
The exhibition An Abstract Feeling gathers the artworks of six young Romanian artists from Bucharest,...
29 Nov 2016 - 28 Feb 2017
418 Contemporary Art Gallery
Bucharest
Exhibitions
Strati|Layers
The exhibition Strati / Layers proposes a dialogue between the various stages in Grigorescu’s work,...
11 May 2016 - 30 May 2016
418 Contemporary Art Gallery
Bucharest
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