George Vasilache

“Wish I was there” - Leipzig, 2006

Lure:
1. Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure;
2. An often luminous structure on the head of pediculate fishes that is used to attract prey.

"Playground 3 - 4” - Bucharest, 2006

The Battery 3-4 is part of an unremarkable row of military buildings surrounding Bucharest. Erected more than a century ago, today are either entirely abandoned, or adapted according to ‘interest’: a mushroom farm, a jail... One of the forts was used both as a radioactive dump for spent fuel rods from Magurele particle accelerator, as well as a green picnic place for Bucharest people. It’s been heard that the barbeque is tastier there and, who knows, one might use less fossil fuel to cook it!

Once architecture of our childhood, these gloomy presences, hard to pinpoint without a map, can rather be found intuitively, by heart or by chance. Nature claims its rights, most of the abandoned forts being swalloed by woods or swamps.

Even so, the Battery 3-4 is nowadays a private property and no longer our hidden playground as it used to be.

Images out of Velvia slides, some of them Lambda printed 180 x 120 cm

"Tying Fragments” - 2006

Dunaujvaros 2006

from Tying Fragments series, 60x90cm, edition of 5 Lambda print, 2006

Lotto Dunaujvaros, 60x90cm, Lambda print, 2006

Leipzig tram depot, 60x90cm, Lambda print, 2006

from Tying Fragments series, 60x90cm, edition of 5 Lambda print, 2006

“As a work-in-progress, the photographic series entitled Tying Fragments outlines the artists’ research on processing the city. In accordance with recent sociology and anthropology studies which assert that the city it self is less a situs than a certain way of processing, and that we do city rather than exist within it, George Vasilache is exploring the urbanscape, both its layered times and tied fragments by applying several grammar axis to. This approach leads him to a strong control of different notions, such as land and landscape, place and non-place, natural sense and cultural sentence. But what’s to be seen in his photos is exactly a space in-between, in transit or in flux, where intersections do not automatically create meetings. Tying Fragments creatively questions the interstice of the physicality of here and now, of there and then” (Oana Tanase, against/within catalogue, 2006)