ICR Romanian Cultural Institute London

Fear: A Survey of Bed Linen

       

Following a successful residency at the Romanian Cultural Institute in 2007, artist Aneli Munteanu returns to London for her first UK solo show at Seven Seven Gallery.

Fear: A Survey of Bed Linen explores concepts of fear and safety. Observational drawings of beds, drawn at a 1:1 scale, initially provide the viewer with comfortable and familiar feelings of safety evoking the warmth still preserved in the sheets from a recently abandoned bed. At the same time the tangled and unmade beds hint at restlessness and nightmares. Archetypal beds in all their modern avatars are depicted, implying that no one is excluded from these universal anxieties. As Kafka said My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Aneli Munteanu lives and works in Bucharest. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest in 2002. Personal exhibitions: "La vie en rose", Grigore Mora Gallery, Bucharest, 2006 ; "The Island", F.N.E.C. Museum, Kefalonia, Greece, 2003.
Selected group exhibitions: "I Love Bucharest", Grigore Mora Gallery, Bucharest, 2006; "Public Art", Bucharest 2006; "Self portraits", SKC Cultural Centre, Belgrade, 2002.

Fear: A Survey of Bed Linen is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.

When: 5 - 21 June, open Thurs-Sun 12-5
Where: Seven Seven Gallery, 75-77 Broadway Market London Fields, London E8 4PH
Admission: free.