Ep 116: Aida Tomescu (uncut)

See the YouTube video version of this podcast episode here

Fresh out of Sydney lockdown, the incredible works of Aida Tomescu are showing both in Sydney with Fox Jensen Gallery and in Hong Kong with Flowers Gallery in two outstanding exhibitions.

To add to this, in early December 2021, Orange Regional Gallery will be exhibiting what promises to be a blockbuster Tomescu show, looking at the artist’s latest large works and how they connect to a group of key paintings and etchings from the past twenty years.

Tying in with these shows, I recently came across some footage I’d taken in the lead up to Aida’s 2019 show with Fox Jensen Gallery, ‘The Open Wounds of White Clouds’. Watching the video again, I soon realised there were many timeless gems in that conversation which I had never published, so here is the full exchange.

We filmed this conversation in Aida’s studio in August 2019, in the midst of many dynamic works lining the walls and with Aida standing in front of the triptych titled ‘Sewn onto the Stones in the Sky’. That work has since been acquired by the Art Gallery of NSW (see below) and Aida talks in this episode about her approach to that work.

Scroll down to see the video version of this episode as well as four previous videos of Aida currently on the channel.

To hear the audio podcast conversation click ‘play’ beneath the above feature photo.

Current and upcoming shows

‘A Long Line of Sand’, Fox Jensen Gallery, Sydney, current until 30 October 2021
‘In a Carpet Made of Water’, Flowers Gallery, Hong Kong, current until
‘Unfolding Presence’, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, opening 3 December, 2021