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The road to making an artwork is as important as the final result for Alina Codin. This means that, before anything else, the artist does not use recipes or algorithms in her work, but also that between her life and her creation there is a total continuity.
The non-figurative, definitive and irreversible option of Florin Mocanu, otherwise an excellent illustrator, represents a perfect plea for color, and not the expression of an iconoclastic conception. The chromatic relations, the tuning, the rhythm, or the game of perception in relation to the complementary ones are just some of the visible landmarks of his artistic activity. But if we accept the metaphorical difference between looking and seeing, what really matters in Florin Mocanu’s work are reason and sensitivity.
PIAR (the acronym of Painting and History of Arts in Romania) is a Romanian art group founded in 2008 by Alexandra Pompiliu, Iulia Florea Lucan, Andrei Berindan, Andrei Ciubotaru, and Mihai Plămădeală (also the curator of the exhibitions and writer of this article). The three guests are Georgiana Bobocel (choreographer), Doina Stan (violin) and Gabriel Bălaşa (percussion), all of them Master of Arts in the moment of writing this article.
For Reka Csapo Dup, sculpture is a mode and at the same time a way to reconcile the seen with the unseen. As nothing emerges from nothing, at least since Creation, the Big Bang or any other event considered as zero point in time, we can take into account the truism that there will always be a before and an after.
A good connoisseur of techniques and materials, Sorin Purcaru, teacher at the University of Visual Arts and Design in Iaşi, Romania, concentrates his creative forces in the area of the figurative, a metamorphic figurative and not infrequently allegorical.
The tangible, practical elements, the clumps of Tiutin to say so, are part of the truth unrevealed yet, but readable through initiation. The artist reserves the privilege of saying that there is no universe without harmony and no meaningless act. Nothing happens by chance, everything is part of a plan and we all contribute to its development, even more than that, all (micro or macro) seems to be equally important in this system.
Sculpture is one of the most conservative and, at the same time, innovative arts. In 5,000 years, the questions and issues of sculpture have remained the same. On the other hand, new materials and technologies, such as the 3D printer, allow the volume of ideas that have been impossible to materialize in the past.
Through his work, Dan Vişovan is an atypical sculptor, in the sense that for what he does there are no classically accepted references. The artist focuses on closures and openings, the resulting visual forms being logical consequences of the binomial outside / inside.
One of the most surprising visual art projects in Romania in the last two decades is Cosmin Paulescu’s “Supra Super Subditus” solo show. It is a post-postmodern initiative of interpretation, respectively of re-evaluating the ideas of collective subconscious and automatic writing, painting & drawing.
Dragoş Pătraşcu’s instruments are not prepared in the sense of the ideas of Fluxus & George Maciunas, nor do they unfold in the manner of Georges Braque, but rather are touched by the spirit of Marcel Duchamp.