URBAN CAPELLA. BETWEEN FALL AND ASCENSION

[text by SEBASTIAN AMZA]

Urban Capella, the young artist's project sends us to another Sisteen Chapel (closer to our chaotic times and more ambitious in the author's axiology, yet inspired by the same theme: The Final Judgement!). A Sisteen Chapel in the middle of a crisis, of a painful split between zenith and nadir. Voinea's characters, conceived according to an old oxymoron - Heroes and Judges - are, first of all, consistent. They are life-like and have flesh. The viewer almost feels how their muscles pulsate on them. A wild vitality seems to erupt from their inner beings. Their energetic force is impressive, while their inner flame radiates forcefully. The artist's paintings are to be decoded as a neurotic extrapolation of a series of their author's identity crises. All in all, Voinea's characters live rather dangerously, having been abandoned and suspended in a risky, acrobatic movement. They seem to be balancing in a precarious state somewhere between fall and ascension. The artist calls it a "choreography of the Hero's fall", a "continuous insemination of the nadir".