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I elaborate on the observation that, due to the accumulation of historical heritage and to the globalization of culture, today's representations of reality have become less consistent and more layered. An image can no longer stand by its own for a specific meaning or, if it does, fewer viewers are able to pinpoint the intended interpretation. When recognition fails, a reliable retreat is the formulation of a visual progression, similar to the mathematical sequence, in which, the most important is to study the reasoning that conducts us, artist and viewers, from one image to another. I experiment with combinations of paintings and drawings, pictures-in-pictures type of images and mental constructs of reality triggered by fragments of text I add directly on the painting surface or as titles to my works.

Works

it will become and the greater the kick. .... or small pieces of sand, 2011, oil, ink and acrylic on canvas, 144 x 195 cm.

full powers only ...... the poem does seem to involve, 2011, oil, ink and acrylic on canvas, 144 x 174 cm.

of flowers with a note that read, ...... Life is valuable in itself, 2011, oil on canvas, 131 x 195 cm.

the question ...... However no other version, 2011, oil on canvas, 130 x 192,5 cm.

the ache of longing, ... This very little seen, 2010, oil on canvas, 145 x 215 cm.

the aching thirst for... and this discovery, 2010, oil on canvas, 130 x 153 cm

(Take aim at myself) ...... Oh how many nights and days, 2009, oil, ink and acrylic on canvas, 100 x 150cm

He said, “This is ... edge, 2009, oil, ink and acrylic on canvas, 75 x 140 cm.

to be a sensitive and free, ..... Tags beach, 2009, oil, ink and acrylic on canvas, 150 x 110 cm

exchange for a wish (a condition .... In Paradise, 2009, oil, ink and acrylic on canvas, 110 x 150cm.

joeface ..... Flower A. Death, 2009, oil, ink and acrylic on canvas, 150 x 200 cm

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Exhibitions

solo exhibitions
2007
- Ideal Spleen, Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2006
- Bloom, Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, RO

art fairs
2010
- C-space, Art Beijing, CN
- C-space and MB Art Agency, Art Rotterdam, NL
2006
- Anaid Art Gallery, art.fair Cologne, DE

collective exhibitions
2011
- Colouring The Grey. The Second wave of the contemporary Romanian artists, curator Cosmin Năsui, Art Play, Special Projects section of the Fourth Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, RU
2010
- Impermanence, Hendershot Gallery, New York, USA
- Tales of the unexpected (Off side show Art Rotterdam), curated by Maria Rus Bojan & Radek Váňa, Dek 22, Rotterdam, NL
2009
- Fast Forward, curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Projects, The Hague, NL
- Understatement (together with Cătălin Petrişor), curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Space, Beijing, CN
- ....Expectations, curator Maria Rus Bojan, temporary space, Dé is Ka & de Verzameling, Barbara Strozzilaan 314-316, Amsterdam, NL
2008
- Strategies for concealing, curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, CN, (catalogue)
- Urban Art, arhitectural projections festival, Bucharest, RO
2007
- Urban Art, arhitectural projections festival, Bucharest, RO
- BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and in 2008 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, GB, (catalogue)
2006
- BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Aberdeen Art Gallery,
Aberdeen and in 2007 at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, GB, (catalogue)
2005
- I love pictura, under construction space, Hotel Continental, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2004
- Airbag, National Art Museum Cluj-Napoca, RO
- DWS Art Award Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery of Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO
2003
- Urban Emotion, Galeria Gallery, Bucharest, RO
- Skin, Ataş Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2002
- Ana Maria Micu & Cătălin Petrişor, Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest, RO