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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.

Viorica Jahn = Pictorial My Abstract (1a)

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.

Lucian-Liciu---Urban-Abstract-(1)

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.

Cristina-Bacicu-Botez-(5)

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.