Cinty Ionescu (RO)

Cinty Ionescu is a video designer that lives and works in Romania. She studied Politcal Sciences in Bucharest and Sociology in La Coruna. She started working as a producer, than as a video-maker for the online by day, while VJ-ing by night at parties with Djs and than live bands (the most intense being Brum Conspiracy) in different clubs and festivals around Romania. After spending a couple of years in the Bucharestian underground and doing numerous gigs with a different range of musicians (from rave parties to jazz to experimental and nu-jazz concerts), Cinty got involved in a new emerging underground scene of her town: theater. By then she decided focusing her skills and knowledge exclusively on the art scene with a strong social engagement, so she quit the advertising business.

Since 2009 Cinty Ionescu video designed over 10 theater productions on contemporary texts, she got involved in the documentation of some of them concerning Romania's recent history, she worked as a communitarian artist with the elder and autistic children, she experienced with a text-video installation in the form of a live multimedia poem performance (Eclectique Telescope) and she got involved in bigger stage productions, her most recent one being performed at the Romanian Opera in Bucharest.

Cinty Ionescu presented her work (both theater and music related) in numerous national and international festivals and stages. In August 2011 she was awarded and Excellence Award at the Fringe New York City for Outstanding Video Design for the Romanian play Nils' Fucked Up Day by Peca Stefan, produced by Monday Theater at Green Hours.

Cinty Ionescu is an idependent video artist active in the underground music scene of Bucharest. The visual representations she operates, sometimes as interventions in the public space or shows and installations (Brum Conspiracy, Eclectique Telescope) reflect the artist's strong social engagement. She doesn't miss any occasion of taxing the modern obsessions for brands, corporations and malls. Her activism isn't aggressive, rather constructive.
Cristi Lupja, Tabu magazine, september 2009, Bucharest.

 

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