Journalist Liviu Alexa, artistic debut in a tracksuit at his first painting exhibition at the Cluj Art Museum: "No, he's happy

Journalist Liviu Alexa managed to tick off a new art scaffold recently, after the multiple books published and the avid activity in the press, having his first solo painting exhibition at the Cluj Napoca Art Museum on Friday, in the company of hundreds of people and especially his family, from whom he remained inseparable throughout event.

[[H8]"I'm exactly what you don't expect me to be," Alexa said more about herself, and this seems to be true of her visual artistic side as well.

Taking into account the artistic criticism afterwards, as usual, Liviu Alexa managed to shock, but also to surprise with his emotions exposed on canvas in harsh colors and deep concepts.

His paintings, with strong chromaticism and symbolism, were brought together in his first solo exhibition, "We are the Apocalypse", about which the critics have already started to roar, especially since in a "marketing" moment as the author himself called it, he chose to come in a tracksuit, the same one from the central work of the exhibition: "Gabriel desiccated". "surprising incursion of a journalist, analyst, author into neo-expressionist painting" which reveals another side of a man known to the public mainly for uncomfortable journalistic subjects, his political stance and especially the "Strict Secret" substack. the extent of the controversy that the journalist usually stirs up, hundreds of participants filling the museum halls and turning a cultural event into a demonstration of support that left the author "excited to the max".

[[H47] emerging from the history of Romanian art that came in a raucous trailer at the opening of the personal exhibition. But my outfit had a meaning, that of "complimenting" that marketing cloth "Gabriel desiccated" that is on the poster of the exhibition. Probably about 400 participants, thank you, dear people, for supporting me, I was moved to the max.

Thank you to the hard workers of the Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, to Lucian Năstasă Kovacs for the trust, to Dan Octavian Breaz for his involvement and "putting on the page" of my canvases, the wonderful Ioan Sbarciu, the teacher who took me in his generous arms and assured me that I could fly. My family overwhelmed me with love, my friends with smiles and hugs. No, is fericit", said Liviu Alexa on Facebook after the event.

The exhibition was curated by Dan Breaz and organized with the support of the Cluj County Council and gathered a significant number of works that explore key original personal apocalyptic themes through a brutal figurative painting, chromatically violent, with compositional accents that can easily be classified as "daring". Napoca

The opening took place on February 12, in the presence of Prof. Univ. Dr. Lucian Nastasă-Kovács, the manager of the museum and of the univ. Dr. Ioan Sbârciu.

The title of the exhibition, "We are the Apocalypse", was not considered an abstract statement, but an effective reading key for the entire series. Alexa put an inner apocalypse on the canvases, starting with the cremation of a phoenix bird, an aging Adam and Eve watching TV and even a vomiting unicorn. inner apocalypses are hidden within us, but we don't have the courage to reveal them. frust and a liberating fantastic universe. Liviu Alexa's language does not seek to please. His works shout, point the finger, accuse, assume the deformity and the grotesque as a form of honesty.

lost the cat (Nightmare of the King Who Lost His Cat)", "New show in town: LIVE angelification", "Judas is busy today", "Madonna dell"Emoji, protettrice dei Polpi (Saint of Emoji, protector of octopuses)", show art critics from curatorial.ro in a criticism of exhibition.

They say that the universe of Liviu Alexa is populated by hybrid and deliberately alienated characters – fallen kings, domesticated monsters, angels adapted to the environment, apostles in online.

Bold and aggressive colors

[[H136]The colors are bold, sometimes aggressive; the black and brown that occupy large spaces are "broken" by shades of incandescent red, poisoned yellow, violent purple, all applied bravely, almost contemptuously, in a manner that betrays expressive urgency rather than a concern for decent finish and decorative.