EYE SB-you!

Eye SB-you - artistic intervention on the skylights of the buildings in the Small Square. As well as art exhibition and performance; live painting, video projection at the Art Gallery - NO! HAI Creative Embassy, Sibiu, Piața Mică nr. 3. 

Artist: Alexandru Cînean, author of the painting exhibition "Faust. Vanity and Despair", inaugurated at the Brukenthal Museum of Contemporary Art during FITS 2016. 

The project aims to promote architectural elements specific to Sibiu, in a unique artistic variant, resulting in a better animation of the city and the enhancement of Sibiu's cultural heritage. In the last 15 years, the Historical Centre has defined a special dynamic of its own, a cultural tempo that embraces elements of contemporary art and innovative interventions, many of them a first for Romania or Europe. In the context of the proposed project, the city gains eyes and becomes a spectator of its own history. The buildings come to life, they metamorphose into real characters and respond to the viewer, the traveler, the explorer, becoming at the same time both the viewer and the viewed. 

Thus, we propose a project through which Sibiu literally becomes the city that watches you. It is an invitation to action and interaction, to dialogue. Not just for the curious and enthusiastic visitor, but for each and every one of us. Eighteen skylights in the Small Square, already consecrated as "eyes" of Sibiu, received their own iris, respectively 18 artworks that exhibit several chromatic variations of the human iris.

 “Of all the senses, sight holds a privileged position for at least two reasons. More than three quarters of the information the nervous system receives from the outside is from the eye. On the other hand, although the retina is embedded in a peripheral organ, anatomically and embryological, it can be considered an extension of the brain and functions in itself as a nerve center. If, as we all know, the eyes play a special role for the human body, what could be said about the eyes of a city? Which for centuries have seen events, joys, sorrows, wars, concerts, thousands and thousands of people. Sibiu is perhaps the only city in the world that possesses, in a specific architectural manner, eyes.

For centuries, most of the roofs in the central area of the city have had various windows (skylights) built in the form of eyes to ventilate the attics. The Sibiu-born artist Alexandru Cînean now invites us to an artistic decoration of these eyes, to color, in an abstract way, the iris of these eyes of the city. The artwork will further accentuate these elements that have become part of the spirit of the community as the eyes of the city, giving them a touch of sensitivity and vitality. " Text provided by the curator of the project: dr. Alexandru Constantin Chituță