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"Chira is described in press materials as a conceptualist, and indeed came of age professionally at the apogee of that dry, cerebral movement, but he might be more accurately described as an engineer, a mystic, and a shaman. (...)"

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Check-out AVENUE magazine's review of our booth at Independent 2018

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Ben Diamond's declarations on the Independent 2018 

"This was my favorite thing I saw, and justified the entire day for me. The objective abstraction of the Romanian artist Alexandru Chira’s whispy drawings and paintings feel like something from the ‘10s or ‘20s. They brings to mind other things as well, like Da Vinci’s notebooks, the art produced by Schizophrenics popular at the turn of the 20th century, or, with their emphasis on strange UFO-like shapes, the contemporary new age movement."

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Review of The Art Newspaper of our booth at Independent 2018

"Study XVII", Alexandru Chira, Courtesy of Delmes & Zander 

James H. Miller writes about our presentation of ALEXANDRU CHIRA

"Like many others at the fair, Saltz thrilled to Alexandru Chira, the subject of Cologne’s Delmes & Zander’s booth, the late Romanian artist’s first solo presentation in the US. Chira’s diagrammatic drawings and canvases are intricate and obsessive elaborations on his creation of a meteorological monument in his small village in Transylvania, which is still being constructed, that will generate rain and rainbows—the artist’s response to a drought that plagued his village for an entire year."

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New York Times publishes Don't-Misses at Independent and NADA 2018

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Delighted to be among Will Heinrich's "very-best" booths for New York Times

"Continue next door to Alexandru Chira (1947-2011) in his first solo show outside Romania. A professor of painting in Bucharest, Mr. Chira spent years building a colorful installation called “De-signs towards the sky for rain and rainbow” in his native village in Transylvania. A series of hazy but elaborate diagrams and drawings, some on a truncated hexagon shape that he thought would promote the land’s fertility, are dreamily enrapturing.”

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Matthew Higgs selects his Must-See Galleries at this year's Independent Fair

"Mirror for Self-portrait", Alexandru Chira, Courtesy of Delmes & Zander

Delmes & Zander a Must-See for Director and Chief Curator of non-profit space White Columns 

Garage of Vice network asked Matthew Higgs to name six gallery presentations not to miss. 

"Fair stalwart Delmes & Zander will present, for the first time in the US, a solo exhibition of work by maverick Romanian artist Alexandru Chira (1947–2011). Chira’s visionary practice embraced architecture, design, astronomy, magic, ufology, shamanism, and much more besides; he created a labyrinthine oeuvre that found its ultimate manifestation in the vast, unfinished monument/earthwork he began in 1994 in his hometown of Tauseni, Romania."

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Check out Benjamin Sutton's overview about all art fairs in NYC this week

The interior of the Armory Show art fair (photo by Benjamin Sutton/Hyperallergic)

Booth of works by Alexandru Chira mentioned

Benjamin Sutton's guide through NYC's art fairs of the week delivers a concise overview. We are happy to be part of it. 

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Check out our booth at Independent NYC!

"Study XVII", Alexandru Chira, Courtesy of Delmes & Zander

March 9 - 11 at Spring Studios  

Friday, March 9, 12–7 pm
Saturday, March 10, 12–7 pm
Sunday, March 11, 12–6 pm

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Delmes & Zander at Independent New York 2018

Alexandru Chira, Study XVII, undated, oil on canvas, 86 x 58.5 cm 

First Solo Show of Alexandru Chira 

Native of a small village in Transylvania, Alexandru Chira realized that the new idols of mechanized agriculture (tractors, threshers etc.) proved inefficient when faced with the tough limits of nature - his home village suffered of yearlong drought. Chira started to elaborate a sophisticated system of land-and-weather improving art equipment, a series of staggering, symbolic installations of painted metal, wire, and concrete. Their task was "to bring rain and rainbow", to convey prosperity, and prevent deluge. Later on, during the 1990s, already a university professor and acclaimed artist, Chira succeeded in accomplishing his lifelong dream: the ensemble in Tauseni, the biggest one-man-monument in Transylvania, which absorbed all his energy and financial resources as well as those of many people around him. 

Most of his prior (and later) works, either those on canvas or the drawings and objects are inspiring sketches or derivative works related to the monument. Maturing his art-agrarian fascination for decades, the monumaniac Chira deepened in the diverse branches of practical knowledge and spiritual speculation requested by such a bold plan. Architecture, design, astronomy, history, magic, UFO-logy, mysticism, shamanism, and theosophy conjoined in an effort to strengthen the material and immaterial assets of the project. Nothing is left to chance in his painted graphs. Their apparent visual geomancy is grounded on a peculiar conjunction of human will, sheer transcendence, and natural forces. The ars combinatoria of Alexandru Chira transmutes mystery into complex, planar or spherical trigonometry.

Both on canvas and on paper, the works look equally dreamy, sparse, and alchemical. Drenched in spectral aestheticism, they evoke echoes ranging from Picabia to Adolf Wölfli, and from Kandinsky to Joseph Cornell. His output is a systematic organization of irrational drives. Beneath the hermetic salvation gnosis delivered by his work, sex and power sublimate in totemic, mechanized allegories, like in the work of Konrad Klapheck. 

Delmes & Zander exclusively represent the work of Alexandru Chiras since the end of 2017. This will be the artist's first one-man-show outside of Romania. The gallery is proud to present the works for the very first time here at the Independent New York 2018.

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