From Sounds to Shape
The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca is organizing the painting and sculpture exhibition From Sounds to Shape, featuring three artists from Cluj-Napoca, Bucharest, and Târgu Mureș: Andreea Beatrix Kiss, Lavinia Cristina Dinca, and George Ciorogar. The exhibition is curated by Sergiu Man. From Sounds to Shape will be open from January 16 to 25, 2026, at the Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca. The official opening will take place on Friday, January 16, 2026, at 6:00 PM.
“The exhibition From Sounds to Shape proposes a synesthetic journey in which sound, as an immaterial and temporal form, is translated, condensed, and reconfigured into distinct visual languages. The three exhibiting artists explore the way in which sonic vibration can become image, matter, and ultimately a sensitive presence, following a trajectory that begins in abstraction and arrives at corporeality and emotion. In the painting of George Ciorogar, sound represents the point of origin. His works are abstract reinterpretations of musical pieces, each painting being the result of an analytical process that encompasses both the musical message and the context of the album or associated video imagery. This initial impulse gains material consistency in the sculpture of Andreea Beatrix Kiss. If painting retains the echo, sculpture gives it weight, temperature, and volume. Andrea Kiss does not directly transfer symbols onto the surface of her works; instead, she starts from notions, concepts, or ideas, treating them as latent seeds. Finally, the trajectory propagates toward interiority and sensitivity through the painting of Lavinia Cristina Dinca, where the accumulated energy transforms into state, tension, and feminine presence. Her delicate visual language is constructed through subtle accumulations and charged silences, in which materiality plays an essential role.
From Sounds to Shape thus becomes a journey of transformation: from sound to form, from abstract to corporeal, from energy to sensitivity. The exhibition invites the viewer not merely to ‘listen’ with the ear or to ‘see’ with the eye, but to experience a space where the senses intersect and art becomes an act of translation between seemingly incompatible worlds.” (Sergiu Man)
