Norbert Filep 1990

Lives in Cluj Napoca, Romania. Works in Cluj Napoca, Romania.

Represented by:

Sector 1 Gallery

Norbert Filep reflects on the current moment in history as a major turning point, when everything is getting more and more accelerated and immaterial, while the physical dimensions that used to construct our past are slowly fading away. His choice to exploit these modern fields - technical drawings, texts, books that had once ”drawn” our society and our everyday lives, in his oeuvre, stems precisely from this preoccupation. His conceptual practice employs drawing as a central mechanism to tackle abstraction. Whether he uses simple lines traced by a ruler, grids taken from the basics of technical drawing, or texts borrowed from different art catalogues or magazines, his visual vocabulary relies on a simple concept revolving around information itself. Through accumulation and repetition, his works reconstruct, redefine and reflect on different processes regarding the creation and structuring of information. Constructed in several layers of graphite or sometimes other materials, such as glass, his series of works become abstract territories where the viewer is
encouraged to decipher the slowly revealing dialogue between the material, tools, and the processes that generate delicate fluctuations inside the work’s network. The apparition of volume, elevations, marks, and bends in fiber, results of the interaction between the elasticity of cellulose and hard graphite pencils, square rulers or stencils, convey the works’ materiality. Filep engages in such obsessive and absurd methods - as applying the hand-drawn layers on paper in an obsessive, meticulous way, or using the ”wrong” tools, considering their absurdity similar to that of our increasingly digitized reality.

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