{"id":449098,"date":"2021-01-04T10:55:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T10:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=449098"},"modified":"2021-01-04T11:05:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T11:05:34","slug":"one-of-the-most-important-contemporary-artists-from-moldova-mark-verlan-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/one-of-the-most-important-contemporary-artists-from-moldova-mark-verlan-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the most important contemporary artists from Moldova &#8211; Mark Verlan &#8211; passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Mark Verlan was an eccentric, contemporary, multidimensional artists from Moldova who painted, sculpted, created installations and wrote texts. His ideas took different, unpredictable and experimental forms. <em>&#8220;His artwork is difficult to explain as it is an almost paradoxical mixture of conceptualism, performance, postmodernism, na\u00efve art and surrealism,&#8221; <\/em>as it was mentioned in the description of Verlan&#8217;s recently opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen-art.com\/exhibition\/mark-verlan-marioka-son-of-rain\/\">VR exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"color: #993300;\">VR exhibition includes 27 works by Mark Verlan<\/span>, being the only virtual gallery in Romania and the Republic of Moldova at the moment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_449099\" style=\"width: 1597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-449099\" class=\"size-full wp-image-449099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1587\" height=\"2245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition.jpg 1587w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition-1250x1768.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition-400x566.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1587px) 100vw, 1587px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-449099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: theopen-art.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The exhibition can be visited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen-art.com\/exhibition\/mark-verlan-marioka-son-of-rain\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The artist used to call himself <em>&#8220;Marioca, son of rain&#8221;<\/em>, as his passport name was Marian, his nickname at school was Marioca and he had a childhood story: <em>&#8220;I was 12 when I was smoking with my sister under a large tree trunk, near my grandmother&#8217;s house, in western Ukraine. A loud thunderclap erupted, it suddenly started to rain and something happened in my brain. I realized that I would never be a combine driver, electrician, military or cosmonaut. I will have an art-related occupation. [&#8230;] The &#8220;son of rain&#8221; is an allegory, because, in a way, I was born in the rain,&#8221;<\/em> the artist claimed in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/ro\/article\/ypg5zb\/marioca-fiul-ploii\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Verlan reflected post-Soviet changes and realities in a playful and sarcastic manner. He made art from found objects, to which he gave unexpected meanings. The most common characters in his works were women, cats, Lenin and Buratino (the Russian version of Pinocchio). His artwork contains irony and humour, mostly hiding strong political messages<em>. &#8220;Actually, his fairy and ironic artworks are broadcasting the general social subtext, making his characters be in a constant movement and interacting with the public,&#8221;<\/em> it is said in the description of Verlan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen-art.com\/exhibition\/mark-verlan-marioka-son-of-rain\/\">VR exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_449100\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-449100\" class=\"size-full wp-image-449100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/verlan-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/verlan-2.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/verlan-2-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/verlan-2-400x580.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-449100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: unknown<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2003, Verlan participated in the exhibition <strong>&#8220;Blut und Honig&#8221;<\/strong>, from The Essl Collection (Vienna), being curated by Herald Szeemann. In 2011, he represented the Republic of Moldova at the <strong>Venice Art Biennale<\/strong>, where he exhibited the door of his creative atelier, dressed in a handful of slippers, to symbolically show his willingness to open the gate to Transnistria. The work generated a great scandal.<\/p>\n<p>He also participated in different exhibitions in Austria, Germany, Italy, Moldova, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden and the USA. In 2019 and 2020 he exhibited in Bucharest, at the Possible Gallery, and at the Artep Gallery in Iasi.<\/p>\n[aesop_gallery  id=&#8221;449101&#8243; revealfx=&#8221;off&#8221; overlay_revealfx=&#8221;off&#8221;]\n<p>Mark Verlan was born in 1963 in Cocieri, Moldova, and passed away at just 57 years old. His death was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=2184983448298439&amp;set=gm.3076688429226144\">announced<\/a> on January 2 by his relatives.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There are enough arguments to consider Mark Verlan a spearhead of the generation of artists established after the fall of communism in Moldova,&#8221;<\/em> it is said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/451613645\/Antologia-picturii-Mold-web-pdf\">anthology<\/a> of Moldovan painting from 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Photos: oracoolblog.wordpress.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>Mark Verlan was an eccentric, contemporary, multidimensional artists from Moldova who painted, sculpted, created installations and wrote texts. His ideas took different, unpredictable and experimental forms. &#8220;His artwork is difficult to explain as it is an almost paradoxical mixture of conceptualism, performance, postmodernism, na\u00efve art and surrealism,&#8221; as it was mentioned in the description of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":449111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4],"tags":[947,948,951,35,949,27,950],"class_list":["post-449098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-society","tag-artist","tag-artwork","tag-gallery","tag-important","tag-mark-verlan","tag-moldova","tag-virtual"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Mark Verlan was an eccentric, contemporary, multidimensional artists from Moldova who painted, sculpted, created installations and wrote texts. His ideas took different, unpredictable and experimental forms. <em>&#8220;His artwork is difficult to explain as it is an almost paradoxical mixture of conceptualism, performance, postmodernism, na\u00efve art and surrealism,&#8221; <\/em>as it was mentioned in the description of Verlan&#8217;s recently opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen-art.com\/exhibition\/mark-verlan-marioka-son-of-rain\/\">VR exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"color: #993300;\">VR exhibition includes 27 works by Mark Verlan<\/span>, being the only virtual gallery in Romania and the Republic of Moldova at the moment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_449099\" style=\"width: 1597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-449099\" class=\"size-full wp-image-449099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1587\" height=\"2245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition.jpg 1587w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition-1250x1768.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/exhibition-400x566.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1587px) 100vw, 1587px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-449099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: theopen-art.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The exhibition can be visited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen-art.com\/exhibition\/mark-verlan-marioka-son-of-rain\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The artist used to call himself <em>&#8220;Marioca, son of rain&#8221;<\/em>, as his passport name was Marian, his nickname at school was Marioca and he had a childhood story: <em>&#8220;I was 12 when I was smoking with my sister under a large tree trunk, near my grandmother&#8217;s house, in western Ukraine. A loud thunderclap erupted, it suddenly started to rain and something happened in my brain. I realized that I would never be a combine driver, electrician, military or cosmonaut. I will have an art-related occupation. [&#8230;] The &#8220;son of rain&#8221; is an allegory, because, in a way, I was born in the rain,&#8221;<\/em> the artist claimed in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/ro\/article\/ypg5zb\/marioca-fiul-ploii\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Verlan reflected post-Soviet changes and realities in a playful and sarcastic manner. He made art from found objects, to which he gave unexpected meanings. The most common characters in his works were women, cats, Lenin and Buratino (the Russian version of Pinocchio). His artwork contains irony and humour, mostly hiding strong political messages<em>. &#8220;Actually, his fairy and ironic artworks are broadcasting the general social subtext, making his characters be in a constant movement and interacting with the public,&#8221;<\/em> it is said in the description of Verlan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen-art.com\/exhibition\/mark-verlan-marioka-son-of-rain\/\">VR exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_449100\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-449100\" class=\"size-full wp-image-449100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/verlan-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/verlan-2.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/verlan-2-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/verlan-2-400x580.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-449100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: unknown<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2003, Verlan participated in the exhibition <strong>&#8220;Blut und Honig&#8221;<\/strong>, from The Essl Collection (Vienna), being curated by Herald Szeemann. In 2011, he represented the Republic of Moldova at the <strong>Venice Art Biennale<\/strong>, where he exhibited the door of his creative atelier, dressed in a handful of slippers, to symbolically show his willingness to open the gate to Transnistria. The work generated a great scandal.<\/p>\n<p>He also participated in different exhibitions in Austria, Germany, Italy, Moldova, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden and the USA. In 2019 and 2020 he exhibited in Bucharest, at the Possible Gallery, and at the Artep Gallery in Iasi.<\/p>\n[aesop_gallery  id=&#8221;449101&#8243; revealfx=&#8221;off&#8221; overlay_revealfx=&#8221;off&#8221;]\n<p>Mark Verlan was born in 1963 in Cocieri, Moldova, and passed away at just 57 years old. 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