NOIMA – Work in Progress

Author: Constantin Flondor
Context: Excrepts from NOIMA – Work in Progress documentary (recorded in 2002, 2019)

(2002) Experimenting means getting out of a circle, experimeter. But, the thing is, there are more ways of getting out of the circle. Getting out of the circle by keeping ...Read more

HIDDEN PARADISE (fragments)

Author: Denise Parizek
Context: exhibition / talks - Schleifmuhlgasse 12-14 Gallery, Vienna Art Week, 2018

The topic of the show spanned the period from the 1960s to the present, beginning with works of Neo-avantgardists from former socialist states on Balkan and conceptual art that reflect ...Read more

NOIMA 15

Author: Horatiu Lipot
Context: exhibitions / talks - Romanian Cultural Institute, Budapest, 2018

NOIMA – is an Romanian polyvalent word, that litteraly translates as SENSE /NOIMA. At the begining there was painting; and painting was with NOIMA; and painting was Noima (t/n: sense)/ ...Read more

OUT OF A BLIZZARD (fragments)

Author: Denise Parizek
Context: Exhibition - Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Venice, 2018

My Time with NOIMA, 3 of 15 years NOIMA emerged in front of the gallery windows in Vienna out of a blizzard, armed with easel, canvas and paintbrushes. They moved ...Read more

ONE STEP BEYOND

Author: Denise Parizek
Context: Exhibition - Schleifmuhlgasse 12-14 Gallery, Vienna, 2015

Curating a 3 day show gives consideration to all the NOIMA Group’s facets and achievements, including the solo artists, is challenging, but thrilling. What I spotted first, was a transformation ...Read more

FROM FORM TO CONCEPT

Author: Ileana Pintilie
Context: Exhibition at The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca, 2009

The association, in an exhibition, of Andrei Rosetti, Sorin Scurtulescu and Sorin Neamţu is not only a sign of spiritual closeness, dating back to their years of apprenticeship, but also ...Read more

NOIMA

Author: Marius Lazurca
Context: NOIMA.RO / ATELIER - Deutsches Kulturzentrum Temeswar, 2007

What is remarkable in the NOIMA group is their relationship with time. Perfectly contemporary, inserted in the present without hesitation, the young artists revisit the monuments of tradition reverentially and ...Read more

THE MEANINGS OF MEANING: NOIMA

Author: Costion Nicolescu
Context: Excerpt from 2007 review of the NOIMA exhibition at the German Cultural Centre in Timişoara

NOIMA... What is this group and what keeps its members together? As its very name suggests (“meaning”), I think their main aim is that of finding the meaning of painting ...Read more

FROM OUTSIDE TOWARDS INSIDE, OR A LITTLE RESEARCH WORK ON PAINTING

Author: Marie-Jeanne Jutea Bădescu
Context: NOIMA - Galleria28, Timișoara, 2004

November 21 2004, I stroll through the gallery, at midnight, taking a look at the paintings exhibited by the group called „NOIMA”.(Ciprian Bodea, Dan Gherman, Sorin Neamţu, Andrei Rosetti, Sorin ...Read more