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P3578

Tokyo. Art Lab Akiba, July 2019.

A framed drawing on a gallery wall, pale gold marks on grey, with a printed Japanese artist label mounted beneath it

Three people standing in front of the exhibition wall at Art Lab Akiba, framed and unframed works hung around them — The hang at Art Lab Akiba

A group of black works with gold drawing laid out on a woven mat, six squares above, four long horizontal strips below — What he sent: squares and strips, black paper with the colour lifted out.

P3578 was a group exhibition at Art Lab Akiba in Tokyo in July 2019, an invitation rather than an application. Ovidiu sent framed work from the black-and-gold chemical series.

Nine black panels arranged in a grid, each carrying pale gold figures, loops, insects and scattered dots — Nine of the black-and-gold sheets, laid out together.

Two black works photographed on a woven mat, one with a large pale ring and a long ruled bar, the other with seated figures and small framed signs — Two of the framed pieces before they went.

Four visitors standing in the gallery in front of a wall of framed works, holding printed programmes — Art Lab Akiba, Tokyo, July 2019

The gallery printed a Japanese wall label for him: his portrait in a bucket hat, his full name, Ovidiu-Valeriu Bojor, and a short biography noting Cluj-Napoca, the art university, and that he found common ground with the P3578 concept and made original work for it.

Three people posing in front of the hung wall, with framed works and small printed cards arranged around them — The wall his work was hung on.

The gallery seen through a window: framed works along both walls and a standing sculpture of crossed bamboo poles in the middle of the room — The room, through the window.

Two photographs survive. One is the frame alone on a white wall with its label beneath, a bag, a burst of gold, a knot of line on grey. The other is the wider hang, the organisers standing in front of it, other artists' prints running along the same wall.

Medium: Works on paper
Role: Exhibiting artist
With: Art Lab Akiba, Tokyo
Exhibited: P3578, Art Lab Akiba, Tokyo, 2019

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