August 3 – September 7, 2024
Steve Turner is pleased to present The best of all possible worlds, the debut solo exhibition for Bucharest-based Remus Grecu which features new paintings that depict idyllic scenes and the radiant beauty of a central female character. They are filled with light, happiness and beautiful color through depictions of rich silk garments, ripe fruit, blue skies and snow-capped mountains. They were inspired by Renaissance paintings which have luminous color as well as compositions that combine interiors with windows onto the outside world. The woman in Grecu’s paintings is inspired by Cunégonde, a character from Voltaire’s Candide that symbolizes the ephemeral nature of youthful beauty. According to Grecu, these paintings are a counterpoint to the deeply flawed world we now inhabit, my vision of the best of all possible worlds.
Remus Grecu (born 1976, Constanța Romania) earned a BA at the University of Arts, Bucharest (2001) and has had solo exhibitions in Bucharest, Ghent, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Frankfurt between 2009 and 2022. His work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Plato Gallery, New York (2024) and IOMO Gallery, Bucharest (2024). This is Grecu’s first solo exhibition at Steve Turner and his first in the United States.
Born 1976, Bucharest, Romania
Lives and works in Bucharest
Education
2001
BFA, University of Arts, Bucharest
Solo Exhibitions
2024
The best of all possible worlds, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2022
Praying for the snow, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest
2021
Night rainbows, CAI Gallery, Harelbeke, Belgium
2018
If this is heaven there should be more, Jan Dhaese Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2016
Togetherness, Benoni Gallery, Copenhagen
Blind soulmates, Jan Dhaese Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2013
Lustral, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen
The beginning of the end, Romanian Culture Institute, Stockholm
2009
Contemporary Beauty Ideals, Staedel Art Museum, Frankfurt
Group Exhibitions
2024
Kiaf Seoul (with Steve Turner)
Double Vision, Part II, Plato Gallery, New York
Fifteen Shapes of May, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest
2022
Praying for the Snow, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest
2021
may amnesia scratch our membrane, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest
2018
Art Herning, Copenhagen
2017
Scope Miami
2016
Jan Dhaese Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
The Killing Moon, Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin
2015
Art Copenhagen (with Kirk Gallery)
2014
From Home, Widmer & Theodoridis Gallery, Zurich
Portraits of God, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen Miami Basel (with Anita Becker Gallery)
Scope Basel (with Hans Alf Gallery)
2013
Art Herning, Copenhagen (with Hans Alf Gallery)
2012
Drawings, NAU Gallery, Stockholm
2011
Fur and Skin, Art Yourself Gallery, Bucharest
November, Festiviteten Gallery, Brustad, Norway
Silence Kills, Art Yourself Gallery, Bucharest
FeminitARTE, Art Yourself Gallery, Bucharest
2011
Young Art Goes Gotland, Gotland, Sweden
The most forbidden, Sture Library, Stockholm
2010
UnFamous, Naive Gallery, Stockholm
2009
October Remember December, Anaid Gallery, Bucharest
