SABOT, Cluj-Napoca x H’art gallery, Bucharest
Radu Comșa, Lucian Hrisav
SABOT and H’art gallery bring together the practices of Lucian Hrisav and Radu Comșa in a dialogue centered on painting and its shifting conditions of appearance. While belonging to different generations, both artists approach painting as an open system, one capable of absorbing other mediums and conceptual strategies.
Lucian Hrisav’s work gravitates between studio painting and mural-scale interventions. For this presentation, he proposes a graphic wall painting that functions as a visual field against which several of his canvases unfold. Developed through his distinctive spray-paint technique, the paintings appear intentionally blurred – images that resemble degraded transmissions or “lo-fi” signals. These unstable apparitions might be suggesting a world filtered through imperfect technological mediation and shaped by distorted visual expectations.
In contrast, Radu Comșa approaches painting by displacing it from the wall. His contribution takes the form of a “transmuted painting”: a sculptural structure that treats painting as a modular system capable of unfolding in space. By fragmenting and reassembling the conventions of surface–support–display, Comșa shifts painting from a static image into a spatial construction that oscillates between painting and object/architecture.
Placed together, the two practices establish a fruitful tension between image and structure, illusion and material presence. Hrisav investigates the instability of the painted image itself, while Comșa reconfigures the physical grammar that defines painting as a medium. The result is a shared exploration of painting as a mutable language that can migrate across spatial conditions.