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A dialog with Roman Tolici is always a joy to the spirit comparable, if I may say, similar to the contemplation of his artworks. The coffee I had with him in an empty coffee shop on Hristo Botev Street, Bucharest, on a Saturday, got me thinking, of another situation I experienced sometime / somewhere in Montmartre, Paris. Together with Tolici, any place could feel like a cultural capital of the world (if there aren’t too many people around).
Travelers who will wander through Năieni, Buzău County, will surely be surprised to see near the village, a huge Saint George (and the dragon about to be pierced with a spear) of unparalleled size in the country and very possible nowhere else.
Professor at the National University of Arts, Ioan Atanasiu Delamare was one of the most important Romanian graphic designers, continuator of an unique graphical style, inherited from his teachers, Octav Grigorescu and Vasile Kazar.
Lucian Liciu seeks, experiments and risks. These would be the keywords of his entire creation. For this reason his artworks are heterogeneous, what unites them being more the spirit than the style or the manner. His morphological lexicon considerably exceeds the sphere of painting.
David Leonid Olteanu’s relationship with ceramics is biunivocal. On the one hand, he has reservations about the conditions imposed by the material and the technologies that lead to the final form of the artworks, on the other hand, he is attracted by experiments on the chemical composition of substances he uses, especially those related to combustion.
Maria Cioată starts in her artistic work from metaphor, leaving a generous place to the possible changes that can occur during the technological process and to the adaptation to the exhibition spaces. Her works, most often modular, are approached as matrix, the components being arranged in interchangeable networks.