Belu-Simion Fainaru: The Fullness of the Void

Galeria Plan B is happy to announce the first solo exhibition of Belu-Simion (born 1959 in Romania, lives and works in Haifa, Israel and Antwerp, Belgium) in the gallery’s space in Berlin, presenting object and installation works fueled by the concept of The Fullness of the Void.

Fainaru’s work uses a wide range of media, such as sculpture, installation, drawing and video. The works contain several layers of meaning that touch upon Jewish-Romanian history, text, and issues of identity and territory. Although his predilection for these subjects is indisputable, Fainaru’s oeuvre also unmistakably addresses several universal human themes. For instance comprehensive notions such as religion, sanity, memory and language are often employed in direct relation to their opposites: secularity, madness, forgetting and visual art. The ‘result’ of Fainaru’s artistic, historical and philosophic interests can be seen as a complex tapestry of contrasts and contradictions that define life.