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Ep 116: Aida Tomescu (uncut)
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:33:59
Publish Date: 2021-10-17 01:20:35
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Fresh out of Sydney lockdown, the incredible works of Aida Tomescu are showing both in Sydney with Fox Jensen Gallery and in Hong Kong with Flowers Gallery in two outstanding exhibitions.

To add to this, in early December 2021, Orange Regional Gallery will be exhibiting what promises to be a blockbuster Tomescu show, looking at the artist’s latest large works and how they connect to a group of key paintings and etchings from the past twenty years.

Tying in with these shows, I recently came across some footage I’d taken in the lead up to Aida’s 2019 show with Fox Jensen Gallery, ‘The Open Wounds of White Clouds’. Watching the video again, I soon realised there were many timeless gems in that conversation which I had never published, so here is the full exchange.

We filmed this conversation in Aida’s studio in August 2019, in the midst of many dynamic works lining the walls and with Aida standing in front of the triptych titled ‘Sewn onto the Stones in the Sky’. That work has since been acquired by the Art Gallery of NSW (see below) and Aida talks in this episode about her approach to that work.

This episode will also be released as a video on the Talking with Painters YouTube channel with a view to uploading by mid-November. Scroll down to see four previous videos of Aida currently on the channel.

To hear the audio podcast conversation click ‘play’ beneath the above feature photo.

Current and upcoming shows

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Previous YouTube videos

https://youtu.be/pbSNWrtdOdY

https://youtu.be/9D7B1W3cH3c

https://youtu.be/IbhHjZ0YZxI

https://youtu.be/BJ8052xpX8c

‘Sewn onto the Stones in the Sky’
oil on Belgian linen
200 x 460cm overall
Collection: Art Gallery of NSW
Purchased with funds donated by Ken Cole AM and Rowena Danziger AM
Photo: Andrew Jensen

A Long Line of Sand III, 2021 oil on Belgian linen
206 x 480cm (triptych)
Photo: Andrew Jensen

Gloria, 2021
oil on Belgian linen. 200 x 460 cm (triptych)
Fox Jensen Gallery, Sydney
Photo: Andrew Jensen

Into a carpet made of water, 2021
Oil on Belgian linen
200 x 153 cm
Flowers Gallery exhibition, Hong Kong, 2021
Photo courtesy of the Gallery
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