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Maria Balea (b. Sighetu Marma?iei, 1990; lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and George Crî nga?u (b. Foc?ani, 1988; lives and works in Cluj-Napoca and Rome) are among the youngest members of the School of Cluj, which has attained international renown in Adrian Ghenie, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, and Ciprian Mure?an. The overarching theme in their works in a range of media is the lived reality of today's young people between a physical world defined by uncertainties and a virtual parallel universe whose boundless possibilities make it a fascinating yet also often deceptive safe haven. Both artists roam this dizzying kaleidoscope of worlds on a quest for beauty: Balea, through a romantically idealized focus on remnants of untouched or deserted nature; Crî nga?u, by abandoning himself to the graphical possibilities of the digital realm, where beauty is often bound up with the bending of natural laws and the physical impossibility of architecture. Yet both, the retreat to an ostensibly natural state and the escape into garish artificiality, are overshadowed by a nameless menace.

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Bogdan Mazuru (born March 26, 1962, in Bucharest) is a Romanian Ambassador who is now ambassador in Switzerland. Born 1988 in Hunedoara/Romania. Edith Lá zá r holds a BA in Art History and a master's degree in philosophy, culture and communication from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca/Romania.

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