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Content And Shape in the Artistic Work of Tiberius Adet

For Tiberius Adet, the theme is a pretext rather than an iconographic stake. Thus, his paintings swing between figurative and a certain type of abstract, in the sense that various recognizable forms, often geometric, are chromatically derived, becoming metaphorically speaking, windows to possible (other) non-objective artworks. The artist ingeniously treats various concrete areas as textures. I draw attention to the relations between part and whole, whether we are dealing with refined graphic details or intrusive interventions (floating layers applied later in compositions, which change their dynamics).

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XXI Apostasy in Artistic and (A)theistic Context

Mihnea Badea’s personal exhibition, “Apostasy XXI”, organized in December 2023 at the UAP Ploiesti Galleries, brings up a series of fundamental issues regarding the position of man in relation to faith, morality and ethics, in a historical and anticipative perspective.
In the creation of the artist, the theme occupies the central place, prevailing over the technical means. Thus, the line and chromatic meet and intertwine organically, complementing each other. In principle, in painting the color is subordinated to the drawing, the artist often intervening on his canvases in the idea of highlighting the visual signs and motifs imagined, instituted in real scenographic icons.

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Viorica Jahn – The Concrete Dimension of Abstraction

Viorica Jahn did not choose abstraction as a way of artistic expression, because in the world people used to paint and still paint abstractly, but because this approach is an identity factor for her. The color, unaltered by themes and subjects, represents the ideal opportunity for the artist to reconcile her inner states with the outside, seen by her as a universal self. Due to this extremely particular vision, the viewer can find himself in the artworks she proposes, which do not speak especially about her, but actually formulate interrogations about the nature of the being.

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Lucian Liciu: Urban Abstract

Characterized by a single word, the painting of Dorel Petrehuș is, before anything else, alive. Literally, the artist uses intense colors, often pure, related by strong contrasts, and figuratively organizes his compositions in an organic way. For the show to be total, its signs are basically anthropomorphic and zoomorphic, in that order. In other words, man is the measure of all things in his creation.

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Cătălin Podoleanu – Synthetic and Analytic Abstraction

Characterized by a single word, the painting of Dorel Petrehuș is, before anything else, alive. Literally, the artist uses intense colors, often pure, related by strong contrasts, and figuratively organizes his compositions in an organic way. For the show to be total, its signs are basically anthropomorphic and zoomorphic, in that order. In other words, man is the measure of all things in his creation.

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Cristina Bacicu Botez – A World in Itself

Characterized by a single word, the painting of Dorel Petrehuș is, before anything else, alive. Literally, the artist uses intense colors, often pure, related by strong contrasts, and figuratively organizes his compositions in an organic way. For the show to be total, its signs are basically anthropomorphic and zoomorphic, in that order. In other words, man is the measure of all things in his creation.

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Nicoleta Gribincea – A Critique of Consumerism

Characterized by a single word, the painting of Dorel Petrehuș is, before anything else, alive. Literally, the artist uses intense colors, often pure, related by strong contrasts, and figuratively organizes his compositions in an organic way. For the show to be total, its signs are basically anthropomorphic and zoomorphic, in that order. In other words, man is the measure of all things in his creation.

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The Human Condition in the Artistic Work of Dorel Petrehuș

Characterized by a single word, the painting of Dorel Petrehuș is, before anything else, alive. Literally, the artist uses intense colors, often pure, related by strong contrasts, and figuratively organizes his compositions in an organic way. For the show to be total, its signs are basically anthropomorphic and zoomorphic, in that order. In other words, man is the measure of all things in his creation.

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Liviu Epuraş: The Archeology of Search

Liviu Epuraş’s artworks can be classified in numerous styles and currents, most of them derived with the prefix “post”, but regardless of the materials, techniques or diversity, sometimes leading to divergence of the proposed images, they have as common denominator the fact that whether or not they seduce the viewer, they cannot go unnoticed. In his creation, the monumental and the miniature coexist peacefully and even harmoniously. Moreover, one can see the same hand, but also vision in all his objects, sculptures, installations, drawings, paintings or collages.

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Răzvan Dragoș / Kinetic Metanarratives

One of the most surprising contemporary Romanian graphic artists from the point of view outlined above, is, in my opinion, Răzvan Dragoș. A characterization by only a few attributes would look like this: unmistakable by theme, approach, manner, conception, artist who works clearly, orderly, clean, logical. His relative youth (under thirty at the time of writing) recommends him as a winning bet.