{"id":24795,"date":"2014-07-27T12:55:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T16:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=24795"},"modified":"2014-07-27T12:55:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T16:55:50","slug":"andreea-alta-mihartescu-orpheus-within-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=24795","title":{"rendered":"Andreea Alta Mihartescu: Orpheus Within Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0535.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-24793\" title=\"IMG_0535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0535.jpg 600w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0535-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0535-187x250.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andreea Alta Mihartescu is a Romanian born 3D animator and visual artist from Mississauga. The exhibit, called <em>Orpheus Within Us<\/em>, is characterized by the use of strong black and white contrasts and French text. The digital paintings are a modern interpretation of the Orpheus Greek Myth, which tells the story of a supremely gifted minstrel who attempted to rescue his dead wife from the Underworld. The works are visualizations of the pure thoughts of desire, love, lost, hope, venture, weakness, illusion, reality, present and future.<\/p>\n<p>Mihartescu\u2019s artworks\u00a0have a rough, violent and sometimes even provoking approach. The very strong black and white contrast together with the notes in French &#8211; which raises the intensity of the messages &#8211;\u00a0express spontaneous emotion and are far away from the reluctance, our society is used to. On the other hand the dominance of\u00a0 black\u00a0let the works appear to be sobering.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition definitely breaks with the traditional conventions of reluctance and implements an outburst of feelings.<\/p>\n<p>Melina Bigler<\/p>\n<p>*Exhibition information: July 23 &#8211; August 3, 2014, Gallery 1313, Cell Gallery , 1313 Queen Street West. Gallery hours: Wed \u2013 Sun, 1 \u2013 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Melina Bigler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This exhibition definitely breaks with the traditional conventions of reluctance and implements an outburst of feelings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=24795\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-melina-bigler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24802,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24795\/revisions\/24802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}