NEW WORKS
by Alex Calinescu

Exhibition Dates:
Tuesday 25 September to Wednesday 31 October 2007
Venue:
Delfina, 50 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3UD
Private View:
Tuesday 25 September 2007
Opening Hours:
Monday to Friday from 10am to 12pm / 3pm to 5pm

This exhibition marks a significant period in Calinescu's work, one year on from her time as invited artist in residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, in Bethany, Connecticut (4 April-30 June 2006). The Albers Foundation maintains residence studios for select visiting artists located in 75 acres of beautiful woodland, allowing the artist in residency a rare opportunity to "work in a concentrated way on one's art in idyllic conditions at a remove from the art world".

Born in Cambridge, England, Alex Calinescu studied at the City and Guilds of London Art School (1989 Diploma in painting) and then the Royal Academy Schools, London (1992 Postgraduate). She has exhibited widely and her work has been collected by prominent corporate investors and private collectors.

The exhibition will include large scale canvases, uncompromising in their intensity and physicality, alongside the intimacy of the smaller canvases and carved panels. In addition, we are delighted to be exhibiting a series of blind embossed etchings, editioned with the master printmaker Kip Gresham at the Print Studio, Cambridge.

"For Calinescu it was an intense physical experience to make this series of paintings and drawings. She works sometimes with speed and at other times with excruciating slowness. She thinks, looks, listens and feels her way through the process of making by considering each colour, tone, space, placement and mark with a critical and uncompromising attitude. She completes a piece only when she feels it is 'right', when the essentials of presence are both imminent and active."

Daphne Astor, January 2007 (extract with kind permission of Fermynwoods Contemporary Art)