Finding the Right Emotion. Collector’s Choice by Avi Cicirean

Collectors’ Choice, the new Art Safari exhibition series dedicated to private collections that reveal personal perspectives on contemporary art, continues with Finding the Right Emotion! The exhibition invites an encounter with emotion as a form of knowledge and visual discovery, tracing a subtle path between introspection and expression, between the gaze of the collector and that of the public.

Finding the Right Emotion is a visual reflection on how emotion becomes both a tool for exploration and an unknown territory. The exhibition brings together powerful and sensitive works from Avi Cicirean’s collection, shaping a journey that moves between memory and the present, between vulnerability and strength, between inner peace and the turbulence of the contemporary world.

This selection of works proposes a cartography of emotions – fragments of introspection, subtle tensions, radical gestures, and silent contemplations. The viewer is invited to explore not just the image itself, but also its emotional resonance: how a painted surface, a body transformed into a symbol, or a recontextualized object can trigger sensations that are difficult to name, yet impossible to ignore.

The exhibition does not offer answers; instead, it creates a space for intimate questions: How do we recognize the right emotion? How do we experience it, carry it, allow it to shape us? In a world dominated by speed and the rapid consumption of affect, Finding the Right Emotion becomes an exercise in slowing down, in recalibrating the way we see and feel.

Through this collection, Avi Cicirean configures a personal yet open universe, where emotion becomes a meeting ground between artist, collector, and audience – a space of authenticity and self-discovery.