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Ion Barladeanu

Ion Barladeanu (Born 1946) is active/lives in Romania.  Ion Barladeanu is known for Social commentary assemblage, filmmaking.

Ion Bârladeanu?b 1946 (Romania)

The makeshift open-air studio of Ion Bârladeanu was discovered in a back-alley in Bucharest, Romania. Yet its proprietor, a modest and clandestine collagist, was unprepared for the acclaim which swiftly descended upon his once-secret art practice.

As social commentary, Bârladeanu’s anti-communist and anti-capitalist assemblages reveal a wry sense of humour and sharp political savvy. The brilliance lies in their maker’s visual flair, where impossible eye-lines and one-point perspectives coincide effortlessly with the high-gloss, the pornographic and the surreal.

Born in 1946 near the Moldavian border, Bârladeanu spent much of his adulthood drifting. He worked as a farmer, a docker, a security guard and a grave-digger. Yet it was the violent reign of Nicolae Ceausescu, and its subsequent collapse in 1989, which indirectly inspired Bârladeanu to create such a subversive and satirical body of work.

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