TREATY about the Nations’ ARCADIA

From ROMAN TOLICI/PARK, H’art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, 2008

Roman Tolici gains authority speaking in nature’s name. Roman Tolici brings an alternative energy to the idea that nature, like democracy is just a dream in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus and Heaven. Nature rejects fake pathos, rejects the intrigues, the conspiracies, the hustle; but nature is correlated with the political strategies against acid rain, smog, and global warming. Nature confutes the claustrophobic world. It is as precious and repulsive as the politics of limits. The nation as modern Arcadia clearly fits into this politics of limits. There is a slight immobility in the beginning of the afternoon. There is daily, cruel, melancholic consolation. Using his ideas as weapons in a moral fight, Roman Tolici refers to comfort in the absence of the truth / do not believe in good and evil / and through a resolute temper build a coherent artistic world.

Partially in love with sad moments, and partially in love with heretic ones, Roman Tolici represents each nation as a place to relax, a park, an Arcadia. Besides this positivism, his initiative comes from culture and from classic European hypotheses.

Rediscovering nature in nature has the beauty of fluid calligraphy and it reduces the people close you to their essentials. The phrasing is clear. But it is no accident that Roman Tolici has an obsession for rhetorical means. It is dangerous to think that sadness is the precondition of seriousness. And the proof of that lies more in the purpose than in the example. Rediscovering nature means finding the lost freedom.

Thought remains predictive / matter is thoughtful.

Roman Tolici sets under the concept of Arcadia some important paradigms – play, innocence, loneliness, mistrust, confusion, despair.

It is about a liberal irony.

It is about a solid thought, about that colored air that unites everything loosing individuality.

An airy Arcadia lighter than the air in the atmosphere…

Liviana Dan