At the “Simeza” Gallery, Doina Lucanu Sbarciu created a display of phenotypes with the help of natural substances. The forest, the field or the clearings hang on the walls of the gallery. A universe made of paper; strings and leaves give substance to a new matter. This vegetal matter is filled with nerve fibres and pulsates with life, with a feminine essence. This is clear from the way she touches her creations. Even the gesture that touches the glass (in composite sculptures) shows the attraction mater has over matter. Another wall of the display hosts drawings: simple, barely scratched, having the same line finesse as the vegetal creations. The artist’s world is filled with nerve filaments that transport sap, information and other substances.
Doina Lucanu Sbarciu was born in Bistrita and graduated in 1982, from the “Ion Andreescu” Plastic and Decorative Arts Institute in Cluj-Napoca. In 1982 she debuted at the Bucharest Decorative Arts Quadrennial. Ever since, she has participated in numerous decorative art displays, tapestry, embroidery, graphics, sculpture, glass and textile miniatures. Knowing so much, the artist attended group displays in Baia Mare (The Creation Camp 1987), Bucharest (Expo Grup trompe L’oeil, 1989, Expo Grup Moda – 1989, “Cartea” – 1995).
Aside from the personal display at the Hungarian Cultural Centre in 1995 and the one at Simeza, this year, the artist also participated in the Miniature International Display in Canada – 1989, the festival “Process Space”, Bulgaria-1995, the group display “The Book”, Holland- 1996 and the group display in Venice in 1999.
Her quests were awarded with the Second Prize at the Student’s Spring Festival in 1980 and the Special prize at the Student Art and Creation Festival in 1981. A week from now you will be able to enter the small phenotype universe at the Simeza Gallery and you will be impressed with the vegetal nature of the creations on display here. This is the way matter combines.