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Ion Barladeanu, my cowboy
2012
Ion Barladeanu, my cowboy
Bucharest, Romania
Ion Bârlădeanu is not an artist in the classical sense of the word: he has no specialized studies, and the works he creates for more than thirty years have a rather self-therapeutic function (of ingenuous assertion of his own desires and obsessions, but also of an inner freedom) than a purely aesthetic addressing to a potential spectator. Ion Bârlădeanu is a character in the full sense of the word: he has always dreamed of playing in movies, being a hero ... Collages he realizes are nothing but his own films, composes them as a director after a story he imagines.
The installation designed by Carmen Lidia Vidu does nothing but "put on stage" the character Barladeanu, gives him the opportunity to be a Western hero as he has always dreamed of.
