Boomerang
The artwork “Boomerang” is a call for responsibility—both personal and collective. Through the depiction of a boomerang with thorns, the artist captures the situation in which the hunter may become the hunted, as the playful object can at any moment return and strike the very one who threw it.
Florin Magda, emerging from the “cloak” of the Cluj school and living in Alba Iulia, is a promoter of metal totems. His sculptures, with their brilliantly polished surfaces, crafted by a tenacious and skillful artisan, carry metaphorical vibrations.
They are not what their names might initially suggest, but are instead imbued with unexpected meaning, granting them a new identity. This is also the case with “Boomerang”, which Florin Magda crafted like a goldsmith during the feverish creative hours of the camp at IaÈ™i’s aerial gate. It may resemble an object from the Australian landscape, but the pointed, arrow-like edges make *“Boomerang”.
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Grigore ILISEI
Simulating—up to a point—the process of the ready-made object, Florin Magda’s artwork masterfully transforms formal elegance into the vehemence of a message.
A wise message, delivered in a spirit of peaceful reflection, warning against the relativity of things and the futility of violence: the hunter can instantly become the hunted, the aggressor—the victim of his own aggression, and so on. This is precisely the meaning behind the thorns gleaming on one side, at the upper end of the gigantic weapon.
The major scale shift and the exaggerated proportions establish a dialogue with nearby works—Infinity by Vlad Èšenu, Nautilus by Vladlen BabcineÈ›chi, Stigmata by Costin Ioniță—evoking a sense of an altered ontological state, sublimated. A transformation that resonates with the sublime nature of flight housed in an airport…
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Ioan RÄ‚DUCEA