On Liminal Forms
On the MFA thesis works (preamble & assemble) — by Andrew Woolbright
Excerpt from the exhibition essay for Liminal Forms, MFA thesis exhibition, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, 2023.
Fodoreanu produces a medical body, flayed like Titian’s Marsyas or the écorché engravings of old medical folios. This raw exposure of the inside-turned-outside is translated into a monumental language of remembrance. On a series of hanging tapestries, Fodoreanu rephrases the designs of Vesalius’s anatomical drawings onto skeins of fabric and paper. Vesalius’s scientific gaze did for anatomy what Alberti did for painting — the surface is exhausted to reveal what is underneath. His discoveries positioned dissection as aesthetic form: muscles left the bone to mimic flora, roots, and vine. Fodoreanu utilizes this body as fabric to seek out something within us, a window into new territory, an open-ended figural knowledge that images a body as an ecological network.
Brooklyn, 2023
Andrew Woolbright is an artist, gallerist, and writer based in Brooklyn. He is editor-at-large at The Brooklyn Rail, where he has written extensively on contemporary painting and sculpture, and the founder of Below Grand, a Lower East Side gallery program.
Essay written for Liminal Forms, MFA thesis exhibition by C Fodoreanu, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, 2023. Featuring preamble and assemble.
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