Andrei Fărcășanu
Andrei Fărcășanu is a Romanian photographer based in Barcelona, Spain. He works with black and white analog photography, hand made prints, in a small size. His work is focused on intimate pictorial photography used as a way to investigate the subtle details of everyday life.
Through his minimalist photography, the reduced size of his works, and through the fact that the artist transforms the photos to a level of unique and singular object, the observer – in order to understand the message – has to come closer, to study the details, to slow down the rhythm of modern life.
He is a graduate of the National University of Arts Bucharest, Academy of Fine Arts, where he majored in painting (2003). He holds a Master’s degree in Photography and Live arts (2005) and a PhD in photography with his thesis on Social Photography (2013).
In recent years, his work has been publicly recognized through many exhibitions, participation in festivals, and awards like Open Walls Arles 2020 Award - The British Journal of Photography in 2020, Barcelona International Photography Awards in 2016, Cabanas Alibau Photography Prize in 2015.
Since 1999 he has participated in exhibitions in Spain, Romania, Serbia, France, Greece, Poland.
Through his minimalist photography, the reduced size of his works, and through the fact that the artist transforms the photos to a level of unique and singular object, the observer – in order to understand the message – has to come closer, to study the details, to slow down the rhythm of modern life.
He is a graduate of the National University of Arts Bucharest, Academy of Fine Arts, where he majored in painting (2003). He holds a Master’s degree in Photography and Live arts (2005) and a PhD in photography with his thesis on Social Photography (2013).
In recent years, his work has been publicly recognized through many exhibitions, participation in festivals, and awards like Open Walls Arles 2020 Award - The British Journal of Photography in 2020, Barcelona International Photography Awards in 2016, Cabanas Alibau Photography Prize in 2015.
Since 1999 he has participated in exhibitions in Spain, Romania, Serbia, France, Greece, Poland.
Andrei Fărcășanu, From the series The quiet sense of nature #4007, 2019
Andrei Fărcășanu, Diptych.
From the series Timeless Interventions #7001, 2018 (top).
From the series Timeless Interventions #10001, 2016 (below)
These small delicately toned photographs, an ongoing series of ‘presents’, beckon us to look more closely at our contemporary context of extended lockdowns, quarantine, and time away from our daily lives; these artworks bring to the forefront a collective consciousness, an emerging eternal present, which we are unable to imagine passing beyond into a past or future. Perhaps, I think, now we are truly ‘living in the present’. (excerpt from text by Anne Murray in Happening Media Magazine, read the full article here.)
Andrei Fărcășanu, From the series The quiet sense of nature #1033, 2020
Andrei Fărcășanu, Diptych.
From the series The quiet sense of nature #4057, 2016 (left).
From the series The quiet sense of nature #4044, 2013 (right).
Andrei Fărcășanu, Diptych.
From the series Timeless Intervention #10029, 2018 (left).
From the series Timeless Interventions #10045, 2017 (right).
