Solo exhibition by Vladimir Paun-Vrapciu (Romania)
July 1 – August 23, 2025, Ruse Art Gallery
The exhibition “Snapshot from the Pink Planet” by Romanian artist Vladimir Paun-Vrapciu presents a unique world created at the threshold between imagination and reality. It is a space of resistance, fragile hope, and poetic escape from fear, war, and the alienation of the contemporary world.
Part of the contemporary art festival program in Ruse, the event features painting, graphics, video, and installation elements, united into a coherent artistic vision. At the heart of this vision lies the Pink Planet – a metaphorical territory composed of memories, allegories, and a painful awareness. It is both a dream and a commentary; a refuge where the artist constructs a possible world beyond trauma – a world based not on escape, but on transformation.
The exhibition invites the viewer into a multilayered reality, where the image conveys more than the visible. The works blend playfulness with deep contemplation – through colors, textures, and forms that evoke inner states and associative impressions. The modes of expression vary, but all pieces convey a sense of inner necessity and emotional intensity.
In this context, Paun-Vrapciu’s art is neither naive nor cynical – it combines sensitivity and critical thought, memory and imagination. His works offer open-ended images – not linear narratives, but states of being in which the viewer is invited to find themselves.
“Snapshot from the Pink Planet” is not just an exhibition, but a gesture of empathy. It is a visual journey into an alternative reality that does not deny pain but responds to it with play, compassion, and creativity. A world that may not exist, but is profoundly needed.
The exhibition, previously presented in Venice, Buzău, and Bucharest, is shown for the first time in Bulgaria. In Ruse, it naturally becomes part of the festival’s context – an artistic gesture toward the possibility of imagining another world, different from the one we are forced to inhabit.
