Boxing With Myself

The film follows the life and work of Romanian visual artist ION GRIGORESCU, one of the pioneers of experimental art in Europe. The film discusses our evanescent existence, morality, and spirituality and interrogates the possible extent of the inglorious recollection of our own biography.

Director’s statement

We discuss heartily and intensely about an artist’s life and work almost exclusively when their life ends. Procrastinating and hesitating in praising the deeds of our contemporaries make us miss important features of their lives. ION GRIGORESCU is 75 years old and I simply wanted to film him in order to be synchronized with what he creates and what inspires him, to be able to document and archive his ideas and his personal and professional life. After working together with ION for more than 14 years —as a gallerist, curator and book editor- and now acting as the director of the documentary was an important relation shift. This position proves to be unique and privileged thanks to the closeness, comprehension and expertise I was able to achieve on the entire work of ION GRIGORESCU. But now, the artist becomes an actor and a model, he is observed and followed in a way he has never been before. His public image changes, the perspective reverts.