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Radu Baies

b. 1988

About Radu Baies, (1988, Cluj, Romania) is interested in topics and imagery that he recurrently approaches, as if trying to constantly find new possible, lyrical and metaphorical readings of simple, familiar fragments of reality. His painterly depictions of humble landscape elements, like trees or sheep on hill slopes, as well as the still lives in which he depicts, again and again, the same worn down couch are poignant reminders of the transfigurative and aesthetic power of painting. They compellingly demonstrate its ability to make one notice and even become fascinated by the commonplace reality that wouldn’t, in itself, be considered worthy of one’s attention. Băieş rhetorically emphasizes this transformational force of painting, its magic-like power by the use of gesturally rendered backgrounds or dream-like, almost fantastic lighting of the landscapes. Corroborated with a dignified atmosphere, these expressive instruments give most of his works an uncanny quality, a Baroque sense of dramatic scenography and a sort of metaphorical dignity, not entirely alien to a Symbolist mindset (text by Bogdan Iacob). He holds a BA and MA in painting from the University of Art and Design in Cluj and is currently a PhD student there. Băieș has participated in numerous residencies, including the Telegraph Gallery in Olomouc (2020) and the Budapest Art Factory (2017). His solo exhibitions include "The Sun Keeps Rising" at Palais Ghica Victoria, Bucharest, Romania, “Retacing Identity” at The H Gallery, Bucharest (2022) and “Searching for my human traces” at Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc (2021). He has also been part of notable group exhibitions, such as “HINTERLAND” at Cromwell Place, London (2023) and “MEN: MALE BODY IN THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT RUNTAK” at CESKE GALERIE, Czech Republic (2022). Radu Baies was a finalist of the Darmo Art Prize 2025.
CV Solo Exhibitions 2024 "The Sun Keeps Rising", Palais Ghica Victoria, Bucharest, RO 2022 “Retracing Identity” The H Gallery, Bucharest, RO 2021 “Searching for my human traces” Telegraph Gallery. Olomouc, CZ 2018 “THE GREAT JOURNEY” , SECTOR1 GALLERY, BUCHAREST, RO 2017 “Cosmic Green Solitude” Art Plus Text Budapest Gallery, HU 2013 Solo Show, Quadro Gallery, Cluj, RO 2012 “Fake Memories’’, Visual Kontakt Association, Oradea, RO Group Exhibitions 2023 “HINTERLAND” curated by Jane Neal and John Martin Gallery at Cromwell Place, London, UK “Put it other words” Urban Cultural Center ,Cluj, RO 2022 “MEN: MALE BODY IN THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT RUNTAK“, Ceske Galerie,CZ “TRAVEL GUIDE” , Iomo Gallery, Bucharest,RO 2021 “Transylvania retouch, a matter of landscape and representation” UNITBV, Brasov, RO 2020 ‘’Echoes beneath the waves’’ Musem of Arts, Cluj, RO ‘’SIGNAL I’’ Telegraph galley, Olomouc, CZ “Transylvania retouch, a matter of landscape and representation” Studio Of Young Artists, Budapest, HU “Transylvania retouch, a matter of landscape and representation” Magma Contemporary, Miercurea Ciuc, RO “TRANCE” Art Docks, Bremen, GR “Neo-Manifest Romantic" Museum of ART Cluj, RO 2019 “Restart” Museum of Art Cluj, RO ‘’Preparing for darkness: True romance, Kuhlhaus Berlin, DE “Transylvania retouch, a matter of landscape and representation” ICR Berlin, RKI Gallery, DE “Fade Away’’, Art Doks Bremen, Germany “Blue Bird” Sector 1 Gallery, Bucharest, RO “Spirists of a century” Musem of art, Cluj, RO 2017 “Disruptive imagination, Making windows where there were once walls”, Szentendre. HU “The exquisite corpse drinks the new wine”, Sector 1 Gallery, Bucharest, RO “Disruptive imagination,Making Windows Where There Were Once Walls”, GVUO Gallery of fine arts Ostrava, CZ 2016 “Pop up show”, Autumn Salon, Spatiul Intact gallery, Paint brush factory, Cluj, RO "4 Spaces, Common ground”, Galeria Mica, Cultural Institute Venezia, IT 2015 “Body Unnatural”, NUNU Fine Art Gallery, Taipei, TW “You are here” Spazi Aperti. Accademia di Romania, Rome, IT 2013 “DEgeneratie”, Visual Kontakt Association, Cluj, RO ‘’The Cutting Edge 2”, Museum of Art, Cluj, RO “Startpoint Prize România 2013”, Victoria Art Center, Bucharest, RO “mySalon”, Quadro Gallery, Cluj, RO 2012 “At theTop of the Field. 7 painters from Cluj”, Quadro Gallery, RO 2010 “ERASMART”, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, IT Education 2020-Now PHD student at University of Art and Design, Cluj 2011–2013 University of Art and Design, Cluj, MA in painting 2008–2011 University of Art and Design, Cluj, BA in painting
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