Artists

Șerban Savu

Press release

For Gallery Weekend 2025, Galeria Plan B is pleased to present Serban Savu’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. Interested in the multiple meanings of visible reality, Savu paints the world around him as reflected through the lens of art history. Characterized by empathy and a keen sense of observation, his paintings employ synthesis and re-composition to invite viewers to reassess the present within a broader historical context.

His recent presentation, What Work Is, at the Venice Biennale 2024, explored the representational history of the laboring body, constructing a complex iconography of work and leisure. This project drew deeply from studies of historical realism and its ideologies, as well as the propaganda art of the Eastern Bloc.

For his upcoming solo exhibition, Golden Ages, Serban Savu continues his investigation of history and art history, revisiting and reinterpreting themes such as myths, ruins, and hunting. In a historical narrative where each epoch is built on the ruins of its predecessors, Savu reflects on how we relate to the past, inviting us to view the present as though it were already the past—a continuous sequence of construction and destruction.