Hi, I'm Alexandru Botezatu

Drawing on both modernism, and the sacral tradition of „sous verre“ painting, Alexandru Botezatu primarily works through a unique form of 3-dimensional analog montage, in which each soot residue clipped image is preserved within laminated glass sheets to form grand pictographic allegories, which the artist calls “dimensions of existence”.
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His artwork lies in a space between the 2 and 3 dimensions. In his work, he explores phenomena, space transformation, color, symbols of change, and the thresholds of form and perception.
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These kaleidoscopic works often relate to concepts of human preconditioning and limitation relationship and challenging the borders each of us is born with by understanding what is in our reach in order to embrace freedom as status quo. The self-standing frames are limited to the abstraction (deconstruction) of a thing or the living body but brought together they form a comprehensive, consolidated, reconstruction-preservation of the portrait of one’s existence.
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Botezatu’s 3-dimensional practice can be seen as a photographer on one side, while also running a descriptive artist’s studio on another, and as a designer&mentor.

He is also in very close connection with nature. Interconnected, we would say, even.
Nature preoccupies him, and conserving its beauty is one of his core goals. He choses to do that with the ease of classical photographic medium and also helped by the portable, easy-to-use digital alternatives.
His Konika Hexar AF and the iPhone are within reach every time he approaches the landscapes back home or afar. A con

Preservation. Mindfulness. Consciousness are the drivers of his values.


2022 – Self, Bánffy Castle, Bontida
2017 – Future Memories, Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
2013 – Negotiated Realities, Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
2010 – Urban Birds, French Cultural Center, Cluj-Napoca
2008 – Seeing Yourself, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2008 – Persona, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2008 – E-V Dialogues, Baia Mare, Romania
2007 – Green Horses on the Walls and Their Clumsy Riders, Sibiu, Romania
2007 – Eclectique – Transfer, Timișoara, Romania
2006 – Exercises in Admiration – In Memoriam Henri Cartier-Bresson, Timișoara, Romania
2006 – Take the Chicks Out of the Yard Festival, Iași, Romania
2005 – Exercises in Admiration – In Memoriam Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2005 – Visual Eurobarometer: Romanian Values – European Values, Cluj-Napoca, Romania