Dragos Burlacu

Dragoș Burlacu is balancing in wide range of styles and painting techniques from new expressionism, bad art and realism. Dragos Burlacu perfected a manner of visual rendition, by which he simplifies narration and figurativeness in order to capture the emotion of the characters’ relationships. Dragos Burlacu removes the details of portraits in “Royal Couple”, “Erasing Light”, “Unknown” or “The Colour is in the Shadow” so he would not divert the focus from the outlined beauty of the relationships intimately creating themselves beyond the physical presence of the characters.

1978 – born in Bacau, RO
lives and works in Bacau, RO

EDUCATION
1997-2002 – B.A., Luceafarul Art Academy, Bucharest
2006-2008 – M.A., National University of Art, Bucharest, RO
1999 – Founder of the group E((O

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 – Tranzit, Aiurart, Bucharest, RO
2009 – ”Understanding History”, Carturesti, Bucharest, RO
2008 – ”Gloria pictura”, Frunzetti Gallery, Bacau, RO
2006 – ”Insomnia II”, Museum of Contemporary Art George Apostu, Bacau, RO
2004 – ”1234…”, Velea Gallery, Bacau, RO
2003 – ”Insomnia”, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2002 – ”Trafic”, Arta Gallery, Bacau, RO

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 – Portraits, July 2013, Corke Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2013 – End of Empires, February 2013, Corke Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2012 – “Colouring the Grey – State of Body”, curator Cosmin Năsui, Liverpool Biennial Independents 2012, UK (catalogue)
2012 – „Romania in Paris”, curator Cosmin Năsui, American Center for the Arts, Dorothy’s Gallery, Paris, FR
2011 – ”Colouring the Grey – State of Mind”, curator Cosmin Năsui, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, IL (book)
2011- ”Colouring the Grey”, curator Cosmin Năsui, Special Projects section, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Artplay Design Centre, Moscow, RU (book)
2011 – ”I am Romanian” Ben Gurion University of Negev, Beer-Sheeva, IL (catalogue)
2010 – ”Detaliile încep păşind”, Iqonique Class Studio, Bucharest, RO (catalogue)
2010 – ”Ich kenne drei Farben auf Erden / Trei culori cunosc pe lume”, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, DE (catalogue)
2010 – ”Why the black is not white”, Actionfields Gallery, Bruxelles, BE
2009 – ”Young Romanian Art # 7” Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research, Venice, IT, curator Mircea Nicolae
2009 – ”7 actual size”, Visual Arts Center, Bucharest, RO
2008 – ”Colonia”, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2008 – ”Sapte” Frunzetti Gallery, Bacau, RO
2008 – ”Five daily views”, Veroniki Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2008 – ”Zoomorphic Eleussis” Gallery, Iasi, RO
2007 – ”New Identities in painting and sculpture in Romania after 1990”, Dana Gallery, Iasi, RO
2006 – ”36 young artists”, ING & Hart Gallery, catalogue presented at MNAC, Bucharest, RO
2005 – ”Colonia”, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2004 – ”Identities and Visual Codes: Images of Violence / Violence of Images”, Biennale of Young Artists, Bucharest, RO (catalogue)
2003 – ”Docu-fiction video project Bucharest”, curator Alina Serban, RO
2003 – ”Beyond photography, painting”, Galeria Noua, Bucharest, curator Aurora Kiraly, RO
2002 – ”Graduation exhibition”, Romanian Parliament Gallery Constantin Brancusi, Bucharest, RO

E((O GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 – ”On Difference#1” Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE
2004 – ”Iridescent E((O” Assemblage Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2003 – ”Docufiction video project Bucharest”, curator Alina Serban, RO
2003 – ”14 years in the wrong direction?!” performance-video installation, Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2003 – ”Progress”, Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2001 – ”Cosmogonflabil”, Galla Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2000 – ”Unpack yourself” apartment art, Bucharest
1999 – ”Black Light”, Galla Gallery, Bucharest, RO

AWARDS
2008 – Award for ”A35”, Union of Visual Artists from Romania
2002 – Prize of the Culture Ministry of Romania, ”Moldavian Art Salons”, RO