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2014
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BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL AND THE UNPERCEIVABLE After a visit to the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 I experienced Marc Quinn’s gigantic inflatable sculpture of a disembodied women gazing with purple eyes over the water from the not so distant island […]
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CRAFTY DENSITY One week to the degree show. So many things have happened. Failures and heart aches. Pain and hardship. All in all, the three tumultuous years at UCS are about to come to an end. You think that the […]
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‘Dacia’ the title of one of my largest pieces is named after the first Romanian settlement 100 years BC before the birth of Romania, my native country. The painting is composed of imagined archaic shapes, relics, fossils and hybrid forms […]
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‘Da Funk’ is titled after a Daft Punk song and in it is a couple of intertwining figures. The setting is an open room with windows showing the tropical fauna. The language is surreal and sexual, and draws parallels to […]
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Another example is the alert reality envisaged in ‘Midnight Rambler’ a painting that captures the wild life – tribal, sophisticated and primordial.
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In ‘Mr. E’ I am inventing a head from tiny hybrid shapes. The head is disappearing and forming like an identity cocktail. This is my turbulent visual grammar – disturbing, compulsive and floral.
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SCULPTURE ‘100 DREAM SHAPES’ I am interested in translating my paintings into sculptures. In this concern, I looked at what I could do to appropriate different parts of the painting with a sculpture. I have started to address the paintings […]
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INFLUENCES My works of the last months have started to take a more precise shape and have boomed in colour and form. I have realised that from working in all these diverse mediums making a banana out of fibreglass, a […]
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PAINTING ‘THE FOREST’ My painting is influenced by art history, native folklore, oriental patterns, embroideries, tattoos, Indian abstraction, pre-Columbian tribal, Japanese inks, neo-expressionism, abstract figuration, monumental scale, flowers, design, street art. The works display an uncanny effect, where the familiar […]