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In these works, space is not a setting, but an interior structure. Walls, metal plates, pipes, grids, numbered fragments or organic traces do not construct an industrial landscape, but a cartography of the self.<\/p>

The matter seems cold, industrial, fragmented, but within it an organic tension pulsates. Structures become membranes. Corroded surfaces transform into layers of memory. Each fixed, screwed or suspended element suggests an attempt to stabilize something deeply unstable: identity.<\/p>

In some works, the organic appears frontal, vulnerable, exposed against a rigid metallic background. In others, it is absorbed by geometry, fragmented, hidden under successive layers of texture. The relationship between flesh and steel, between interior and exterior, between body and construction becomes a metaphor for the contemporary condition\u2014an existence constantly negotiated between biology and technology.<\/p>

These paintings investigate memory as an architectural space. The past is not narrated, but sedimented in texture. Memories become volumes, angles, overlapping surfaces. Sometimes they appear as discrete traces; other times, as forms impossible to ignore.<\/p>

The viewer is not invited to contemplate an object, but to traverse a system. Each work functions as a section through an interior construction: a building of vulnerability, loss, inheritance, assumed roles, and lingering silences.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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In this visual universe, identity is not a stable given. It is a process of reassembly.
A continuous construction site between the organic and the artificial.
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Under Construction \u00cen aceste lucr\u0103ri, spa\u021biul nu este un decor, ci o structur\u0103 interioar\u0103. Ziduri, pl\u0103ci metalice, conducte, grile, fragmente numerotate sau urme organice nu construiesc un peisaj industrial, ci o cartografie a sinelui. Materia pare rece, industrial\u0103, fragmentat\u0103, \u00eens\u0103 \u00een interiorul ei pulseaz\u0103 o tensiune organic\u0103. Structurile devin membrane. Suprafe\u021bele corodate se transform\u0103 \u00een […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"yoast_head":"\nUnder Construction - Romeo Bud Under Construction Personal Exhibition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Under Construction is a solo exhibition by Romanian contemporary artist Romeo Bud exploring the fusion of organic forms, architecture and other artificial structures.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/romeobud.ro\/en\/under-construction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Under Construction | Exhibition by Romeo Bud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In these works, space is not a setting, but an interior structure. 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University of Art and Design, Baia Mare, Romaniamerita ________________________________________ SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2024 \u2013 Between Soul and Circuits \u2013 Mechanisms of the Self Minerul Building, Baia Mare, Romania 2024 \u2013 Atelier in May UAP Gallery, Satu Mare, Romania 2023 \u2013 Remapping spaces Minerul Building, Baia Mare, Romania 2023 \u2013 Underconstruction Atrium Building, Baia Mare, Romania ________________________________________ SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2025 \u2013 London Design Biennale Somerset House, UK (listed on artfacts.com) 2024 \u2013 Atelier \u00een Mai Satu Mare, Romania (listed on artfacts.com) 2024 \u2013 Festival Aproape Baia Mare, Romania 2023 \u2013 Contemporary Echoes UAP Hunedoara, Romania 2022 \u2013 Emerging Voices Art Space, Bistri\u021ba, Romania 2021 \u2013 New Horizons Gallery, Baia Mare, Romania I have participated in over 20 group exhibitions across cities such as Baia Mare, Satu Mare, Bistri\u021ba, Hunedoara, as well as international events. ________________________________________ AFFILIATIONS 2024 \u2013 Member of the Romanian Union of Visual Artists (UAPR) 2024 \u2013 ARG ART HUB - founder ________________________________________ ARTIST STATEMENT My art is a visual investigation into the subtle and unsettling evolution of the human condition in an era where emotion meets machine logic, and memory is filtered through a digital lens. With a background rooted in traditional painting and figurative realism, I engage with themes that orbit around identity, vulnerability, technological interference and spiritual displacement. Each of my works explores the convergence of organic matter and synthetic augmentation\u2014what I often refer to as the threshold body: neither fully human nor entirely machine, suspended in an existential limbo. These hybrid figures embody our contemporary anxieties, born from our pursuit of perfection and our complicity in the gradual surrender of the intimate self to external algorithms. Painting becomes, for me, not just a medium of expression, but an autopsy of the self. A self that is fragmented, scanned, uploaded, and fed back through the lens of idealization. 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