Decebal Scriba
Living in Fontainebleau-Avon since 1991, Decebal Scriba (b. 1944) is a romanian artist approaching media such as photography, installation, performance and video art, with sustained activity in the sphere of conceptual art, in which he also integrates his preoccupation with drawing.
He has exhibited in Romania starting with 1974, participating in notable group exhibitions: "Situatie si concept" [Situation and concept], Atelier 35, Bucharest (1974); "Fotografie si film experimental" [Photography and experimental film], House of Art, Bucharest (1979); "Scrierea" [Writing], Institute of Architecture, Bucharest (1980); "Spatiu-Obiect" [Space-Object], Institute of Architecture, Bucharest (1982); "Spatiul-Oglinda" [Space-Mirror], Institute of Architecture, Bucharest (1986); "Experiment în arta româneasca dupa 1960" [Experiment in Romanian art after 1960], National Theater, Bucharest (1996). During the communist regime, he participated in several projects abroad, between 1973 and 1988, which encouraged art by correspondence, or so-called 'mail-art', such as "Objeto de Interferencia", Sao Paulo (1985) or the ecological project "Messagio Terra", Milan (1983). Along with Nadina Scriba and with the participation of a group of friends, he initiated the document video project "House pARTy", editions I and II, between 1987 and 1988, in Bucharest.
After 1990 he participated in the exhibitions "When History Comes Knocking: Romanian Art from the 80s and 90s in Close Up", curated by Judit Angel, at the Plan B Gallery in Berlin (2011) and "The Poetics of Politics", curated by Olivia Nitis, Propaganda Gallery, Warsaw (2012). In 2015 he opens his first personal exhibition at the Victoria Art Center, Bucharest, followed by his second, in 2016, at the Calina Gallery in Timisoara, both curated by Olivia Nitis. He contributed to the exhibition "Situations and Concepts", curated by Magda Radu, organized in 2017 at the Project Salon in Bucharest and participated at the "Life - A User's Manual", Contemporary Art Biennale Art Encounters - Timisoara, 2017, curated by Ami Barak and Diana Marincu. His first solo show in France took place at the gallery in 2019.