The "Nemțoi Gallery" was founded in 1998, being a gallery exclusively for glass, representing the artist Ioan Nemțoi.

The gallery has over the years represented the artist and his works at national and international art fairs, art galleries and museums, dealing with the image, promotion and share of the artist.

At MoBU 2024 Nemțoi Gallery is exhibiting artists Ioan Nemtoi and Mirciea Dumitrescu.

Gallery Contact

Calea Victoriei 126, Bucharest, Sector 1

nemtoistudio@gmail.com

+40733 136 408

loan Nemtoi was born in 1964 in Botosani, Romania and graduated from the Bucharest Academy of Fine Arts in 1991. His studio is located in the area where he was born and raised, due in part to the natural resources available to blowing glass. loan Nemtoi is famous all over the world, his works are exhibited in art galleries or in private collections in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and the USA.

Already internationally famous, Ioan Nemtoi has been able (not without difficulties) to establish himself in Great Britain with an exhibition of installations at Oxo Tower Wharf (7-25 April 2004), when he took over the entire rough-and-tumble building and transformed it into a container of magic. This event led to two fortunate confluences which we could perhaps optimistically describe as an example of enlightened contemporary patronage: an exhibition at the newly inaugurated McLaren Technology Centre (May 2004 – March 2005).

I was privileged to visit Ioan Nemtoi’s workshop in Dorohoi and I was able to understand something regarding the complexities of working in glass. From the molten lava which is the glass bubbling in the furnace at 1,500 centigrade you have to hand blow the shapes and this is where the difficulties but also the creative excitement really starts because the relationship between technique and the achievement of the final aim which is a particular shape of a particular dimension is an incredibly difficult one.

Mircia Dumitrescu (b. 1941, Căscioarele, România) is a demiurgic presence in his own universe, where form coagulates with impeccable precision, depending on the creator's will, into bi- or tri-dimensional artifacts. Some of these artifacts remind us of our well-organized world, while others only indicate fragments from the vortex of thoughts and states in another reality, often remaining inaccessible to us. Even though the latter may seem closed to our immediate reading and understanding, they do not distance themselves from the human sphere, never becoming purely abstract constructions. The perspective distortions found in all of Mircia Dumitrescu's works, referring here to an artistic, shaping perspective—one that intentionally distorts the image, bringing detail to the forefront or dissolving the form almost entirely, reducing it to the minimum necessary for recognition—are all connected to life, more specifically to humans. Even when the subject appears to be the animal or plant world, we are not dealing with static nature or landscapes in themselves. Through cropping and perspective distortion, the presence of humans as observers and creators of the world is not only felt but also imposed. Cats are a subject revisited multiple times by the artist, with each version serving as both a study of form and volume and an excellent representation of the various personalities of felines.