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The theme of machine-men, developed by Iulia Lucan over three years, started from a series of initial drawings that vaguely suggested the relationship between the human body and various invented objects. The inner law of composition of the visual forms was the hazard.
After a relatively short expressionist period, partially overlapping with a surreal one, Marin Gherasim adopted from the beginning of the ’70s, the theme, style and manner to which he would be faithful to this day. The cycles of the Apse, of the Tower, of the Mountain, of the Column or of the Capital, all these constituted in categories, the corresponding works bearing even the respective names, meant more than a corpus of themes and a direction of development: they are identity landmarks.