Ch. II: Autumn
Arsmonitor•Sep 25, 2025 — Jan 15, 2026
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In autumn the days are shorter, time is merciless, you see “No light / No joy,” and you are bound to “always admit that your talent is far too small and your pretensions far too great” (Mitroi: 20.VII.1973).
Several months ago, files, folders, and bundles of notebooks, drawings, works on wood and metal — forgotten in storage for nearly 20 years — were (re)discovered. Over 600 previously unseen pieces, which had never before been exhibited, now come to complete the base of an unfathomable pyramid of meaning called Florin Mitroi. These works make up a large part of those shown in Florin Mitroi’s Autumn: a personal season like a fierce beast, tumultuous, full of passion, pain, and ecstasy.
In moments of reckoning at the close of shortened days — a harsh, rigorous, and inescapable reckoning such as Mitroi’s — what do you do if you come to believe that “Every moment is a humiliation / And life has passed you by”? (Mitroi: 20.VII.1973). What do you do when you are convinc…
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Ch. II: Autumn
Arsmonitor•Sep 25, 2025 — Jan 15, 2026
Press Release
In autumn the days are shorter, time is merciless, you see “No light / No joy,” and you are bound to “always admit that your talent is far too small and your pretensions far too great” (Mitroi: 20.VII.1973).
Several months ago, files, folders, and bundles of notebooks, drawings, works on wood and metal — forgotten in storage for nearly 20 years — were (re)discovered. Over 600 previously unseen pieces, which had never before been exhibited, now come to complete the base of an unfathomable pyramid of meaning called Florin Mitroi. These works make up a large part of those shown in Florin Mitroi’s Autumn: a personal season like a fierce beast, tumultuous, full of passion, pain, and ecstasy.
In moments of reckoning at the close of shortened days — a harsh, rigorous, and inescapable reckoning such as Mitroi’s — what do you do if you come to believe that “Every moment is a humiliation / And life has passed you by”? (Mitroi: 20.VII.1973). What do you do when you are convinc…
