We are pleased to announce ”Gaep Presents”, a new programme of exhibitions that focuses on work by emerging artists and by established collaborators of the gallery other than the artists it represents. The programme builds upon the four iterations of ACCELERATOR, the mentoring projects for emerging artists in which Gaep has been a partner since 2022, and on diverse collaborations with artists in the gallery’s 10-year history. 

The first exhibition in the new series — Adrian Cojocaru: Acts of In-Between —  opens on July 19.

A story of food and art — and of the rituals and environments for their creation —, the solo show features six large-scale works that blend charcoal drawing on canvas with richly textural painting. Informed by a fine dining experience, this body of work takes us behind the scenes, both in a restaurant and in the artist’s studio, to look at what diners and viewers don’t usually see.

Adrian Cojocaru (b. 1993) works to celebrate the richness of contemporary human experience through the medium of painting. He has been an Erasmus+ student at PXL-MAD School of Arts in Hasselt, Belgium, and has just completed an MA in Painting at the National University of Arts ‘George Enescu’ in Iași. In 2023, he was one of the ten participating artists in ACCELERATOR Brașov.

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Image: Adrian Cojocaru, Going anywhere, we were vulnerable, 2024, charcoal and oil on canvas and oil on canvas attached, 138 x 180 cm and 45 x 60 cm