LUZ

For his second solo exhibition with Suprainfinit Gallery, Luz, Matei Dumitriu further expands the medium of painting through a new series of lightboxes, alternating them amongst canvases which jump in and out of reality, feeding each other from internet-based visual information.By harnessing the online meme culture towards a heterotopia realm, Dumitriu presciently widens the collapse of boundaries between the virtual and the real, the uncanny and the familiar, the accidental and the poetic, that have come to define the contemporary mindset.

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Matei Dumitriu (b. 1995) lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. He completed his studies at the National University of Arts in Bucharest (Painting department). In 2018, he started to incorporate more multimedia layers to his projects, working with digital printing, installation and video, while maintaining a day-to-day painting routine. Ever since meme trends became common language for the digital users, his main source of inspiration, present all throughout his works, is internet-based visual information.Recent exhibitions include Sluggishness (2024), group show at Polansky Gallery, Prague; Joyrider (2024), duo show with Luca Florian at Zina Gallery, Cluj; Painting Certified (2023), solo show at Galerie Neueröffnung, Köln; A glimpse, approximately (2022), solo show at Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest; Cheap Thrills (2020), solo show at Atelier 35, Bucharest.

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Graphic design: Irina Caia

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Documentation by Alexandru Paul