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LES HÉROS DE PERSONNE / EROII NIMĂNUI
Ioan Gînscă & Iulian Nistea
Exposition de photographie, 29.05-13.06.2014
Commissaire de l’exposition : Ramona Novicov
Institut Culturel Roumain, PARIS

The Unknown Sibling

In the month of May, year 1986, the soil on the alleyway towards Neamț Monastery rises and the bones of an unknown saint surface, filling the air with fragrances. A saint belonging to nobody, materialized on a plane of birth belonging to the signs of the sky, makes us wonder if...

Ioan Gînscă
INTERRUPTED / ÎNTRERUPT
Expoziţie de fotografie
17.06 – 17.07.2013
Piano Cazola Vizual
Cluj-Napoca

150 Days

I am 40. I am a happy man, but many times I happened to be „like a bird alone on a roof,” „like an owl among the ruins,” or like the bald eagle, from whom those my age have an important lesson to learn. ...

MOMENTS OF CLARITY / MOMENTS DE CLARTÉ
Ioan Gînscă & Iulian Nistea
Exposition de photographie,14-30.05.2015
Commissaire de l’exposition : Ramona Novicov
Institut Culturel Roumain, PARIS

MOMENTS OF CLARITY
“If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.” (Isaiah 7:9)

The moment when you can understand what you see is the moment of light when all transfigures around you and you become one with this all. The exhibition of the two young priests, Ioan Gînscă and Iulian Nistea, is a carousel of images that speak of this continuous and irrepressible search for a deeper, sometimes essential meaning, hidden in quotidian, insignificant, fugitive images, fractions of the visible spectrum. It is a continuous and irrepressible search because it is lit by faith. For them, like an Arcimboldo portrait, the text of the world is composed of notations in the minor register of existence, they being convinced that it is the notations’ very humility that leads to the comprehension of the true meaning found beyond them. ...

VISAGES DE L'OUBLI
Ioan Gînscă & Iulian Nistea
Exposition de photographie, 18-31.05.2012
Commissaire de l’exposition : Ramona Novicov
Église Saint-Sulpice, Crypte du puits, PARIS

“He found them sleeping for sorrow.” (Luke 22:45) They left Him, running in their sleep. They forgot about Him. For a moment, His face was the face of He who was forgotten. Out of pain, out of helplessness, out of lack of understanding, in defense. “I would say that out of this terrible abandonment, great love and great knowledge is born: whoever has met God within the sharp and nameless experience confronting inner nothingness never separates from him again,” says ...