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Essentialism by ALEXANDRA ANDONE, Painting Exhibition 27 FEBRUARY – 7 APRIL 2019 Intercontinental Hotel, Bucharest, Romania

“I paint because I’m always challenged by new ideas and how I should put them in practice. When I look at a painting, I see a window to another world.
A new world.
A world that unveils itself and invites to a journey beyond the wall where the painting hangs. A world where the stories are the witness of the events, where the trees talk, the wings are free and the colors simplify the forms. A world where the creation is new.
I paint because I have too much color in my soul”.

Victor Andrei Ionescu: From The Darkness, Back To The Light – April 2019 -Renaissance Art Gallery Art Space

Before schizophrenia, my art was warm and optimistic. Afterwards, gradually, it evolved towards a darker stage. This was due to the depression associated to my drug abuse at that time. I used to paint representations of my visual hallucinations or just to escape from the…

Darius Hulea

Exhibition “Flights in Mirror” 2019 November 14th till March 2020 at InterContinental Hotel Bucharest”

Exhibition “Books&Arts” – September 2019 till March 2020 at Cantacuzino Castle in Busteni ski resort, Romania

Exhibition “Proud To Be Romanian” Gala from September 2019 till July 2020and at Arc du Triomphe Hotel lobby in Bucharest

Darius Hulea, is a Romanian young contemporary artist born in 1987 in Alba Iulia who is specialized in metal sculpture. He graduated the University of Art and Design from Cluj Napoca, Sculpture section, and in 2012 he become member of the Artists Union. In 2013 he won the price “Grigore Bradea”, a distinction given only to the most talented Romanian sculptures. His statues are created 100% manually by him using the welding procedure in order to assemble metal wires to represent metal portraits often fragmented and incomplete. Most of these portraits represent philosophers, writers and historical musicians well known in his country. Darius Hulea captures the spirituality and essence of these great thinkers in his sculptures.

His first major solo exhibition in Bucharest- Romania’s capital city, “Outline”, consisted of metal portraits of people close to Constantin Brancusi, the famous Romanian- French sculptor.

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Works for Sale:

“Aripi”/ “Wings” Dimensiuni/ Dimensions: Total: 250cm H/ 50cm L/ 50cm l - metal sculpture, Wings: 150cm H/ 50 cm L/ 50 cm l Base: 100H/ 50 cm L/50 cm l/
Mâinile copiilor care se joacă s-au transforamt datorita luminii in aripi care vorbesc despre desprinderea de pământ, despre înălțare, despre personajele înaripate din mitologie, basme și povești, despre visele copilariei pe care, ca adulti, unii reusim sa le transpunem in realitate./
The hands of the playful children transformed with the help of light in wings that talk about the detachment of the earth, about the elevation, about the winged characters from mythology, stories and fairy tales, about the dreams of childhood that, as adults, some manage to translate into reality. — “Aripi”/ “Wings” Dimensiuni/ Dimensions: Total: 250cm H/ 50cm L/ 50cm l - metal sculpture, Wings: 150cm H/ 50 cm L/ 50, cm l Base: 100H/ 50 cm L/50 cm lEUR 7000

“Mâini jucaușe”/ “Playful hands” Dimensiuni/ Dimensions: Total: 160cm H/ 60cm L/ 40cm l - metal sculpture, Hands: 60cm H/ 60 cm L/ 40 cm l Base: 160H/ 60 cm L/40 cm l
“Mâini jucaușe”/ “Playful hands” Dimensiuni/ Dimensions: Total: 160cm H/ 60cm L/ 40cm l - metal sculpture, Hands: 60cm H/ 60 cm L/ 40 cm l Base: 160H/ 60 cm L/40 cm l/ Mâinile copiilor, care se joacă creeând pasari in zbor pe pereți noapte înainte de culcare sunt semne ale luminii, ale bucuriei. Ele reprezinta de asemenea și mâinile Creatorului. În sculptura lui Darius Hulea, prin mâinile supradimensionate care se împletesc ludic, formând, în pofida materialului greu din care sunt executate, o structură fragilă, aeriană la nivel vizual, poți să intuiești pentru o clipă natura sufletului, materia lui. / The hands the children that play creating flaying birds on the walls before going to bed are the symbols of light, of the joy. They also represent the hands of the Creator. In Darius Hulea's sculpture, through the oversized hands that playfully intertwine, forming, despite the heavy material from which they are executed, a fragile, aerial structure at visual level, you can sense for a moment the nature of the soul, its matter.

His metal sculptures are special. You can admire them here:

Wings

Hands

Portraits

07BIS1_Still Crown Queen Mary-ART MUSEUM BRASOV_Nov2018

This work won 3rd place category 49 at American Art Awards 2019 — Emil Cioran Romanian Writer , iron wire, 70x40x140cm

Animals

Work part of Romanian 100 years celebration, work in Alba Iulia and belongs to Cultural Association Cartierul Creative Carolina part of UrbinGO project. — Ferdinand I King of Romania
Lucrare in posesia Asociatiei culturale Cartierul Creativ Carolina din proiectul UrbinGO centenar. Pozele sunt facute de Cristian Bota.

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Studies:

2012- present : Cluj-Napoca Art&Design University, PhD in visual arts

2009 – 2011: Cluj-Napoca Art&Design University, Master in Sculpture

2006 – 2009: Cluj-Napoca Art&Design University, Licensed in Sculpure

Exibitions:

2019- “Outline” Personalized Exhibition – 6 metal portraits of characters present in Constantin Brancusi’s life, Renaissance Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2018- Group Exhibition, “CENTENART” 23 November 2018- 17 February 2019, Brasov Art Museum, Brasov, Romania

2018- Group Exhibition for 100 Years of Romania, Cantacuzino Palace, Nicodim Gallery, Busteni, Romania

2017 – White Night of Galleries, Renaissance Art Gallery, Mircea Eliade Statue, Bucharest

2017 – Personal Exhibition, “Principalis”, Urania Palace, Cluj-Napoca

2017 – Personal exhibition, “The sign on the face”, Central Square, Bistrita

2017 – Personal Exhibition, “Outline, Sign on the Face”, Elite Art Gallery, Bucharest

2016 – Group Exhibition, “Bronze Age”, Art Gallery, Alba Iulia

2016 – Group Exhibition, “Bronze Age” Arcade 24, Bistrita

2016 – Corpus Group Exhibition, Gallery 45, Cluj

2015 – Group Exhibition, UAP Awards, Dalles Hall, Bucharest

2015 – Group Exhibition “Bronze Age” Group Exhibition at the 18+ Festival, Cluj

June 2018 – Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland- 3 days experience at the 1st VIP collectors Weekend Program (Friday, June 15 to Sunday, June 17)

Today, as I was preparing my documents for my upcoming visit to Art Basel Hong Kong art fair as part of a Dedicated VIP Weekend Program, I relooked at my pictures from my first BASEL experience last year in June 2018 at the 49th edition…

Alexandra Andone

EXHIBITION “ESSENTIALISM” Alexandra Andone studied and works in Brand Creation and Communication field. She discovered her vocation for painting 7 years ago at the age of 27. She spent 4 years studying oil painting technique in Nicolae Maniu’s studio, one of the best contemporary painters from Romania,…

HIDE AND SEEK BY IULIA TOADER, PAINTING EXHIBITION 1 NOVEMBER 2018- 25 February 2019 INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL, BUCHAREST

Intermezzo Lobby Bar Intercontinental Hotel Bucharest
TVR 1 Oana Visoiu
TVR 1 Iulia Toader
DIGI cult Iulia Toader

“Hide and Seek” by Iulia Toader, a painting exhibition at Intercontinental Hotel of Bucharest, Intermezzo Lobby Bar, 1 Nov- 28 Nov, 2018. The exhibition is a story in pool and acrylic about childhood , a story of love, time and ephemeral beauty.

“Hide and seek”is such a familiar game for all children; scientific speaking, it looks like a behavioral coaching for facing or experiencing the adult world.

Adult human beings belong to complex social systems where ideas, characters, desires, all phenomena of existence, are all pieces in an apparently chaotic game, but with a clear causality, a universe in itself, a game where all phenomena– our perception about objects- and noumena– the object itself- are hiding and constantly revealed.

“I believe that the beauty of the game resides in that that hiding, mystifying, is a necessary pre-conditioning of finding truth, of revealing” says Artist Iulia Toader.

As an art work, childhood is always a phenomenological reflection of the inner world of the adult observer.A universe that is intentionally evanescent and peaceful, but which at a closer look, hides imminent danger. We are all prisoners in this universe, our own childhood, our children’s’, and it really is the mirror of our own spiritual existence.

In her second exhibition with Renaissance Art Gallery and in partnership with InterContinental Bucharest and OZB Magazine, Iulia’s collection of childhood paintings reveals the artist belief that the universe of childhood is always an artwork in itself, being perceived through the adult eyes, and never directly by the children, as they are in a continuous alpha state, that is evanishing when they are starting to grow up.

‘I am happy to organize this first launching event in partnership with Renaissance Art Gallery and OZB Magazine, especially because this proves that Intermezzo Lobby Lounge became a trustworthy art stage for young talented artists, a space for quality gatherings in the heart of Bucharest, considering this is the fifth exhibition since we opened this chic spot in our hotel lobby.’ stated Lior Bebera, General Manager at the InterContinental Bucharest.

„, the motto of the Renaissance Art Gallery comes more and more to life with this new exhibition and the empowerment of yet another talented lady, Iulia Toader, who reveals her passion and personality, in a reflection of the chilhood universe mirroring her own soul”, said Oana Visoiu, the owner of Renaissance Art Gallery.

INTERVIEW IULIA TOADER TVR1 OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION 1 NOIEMBRIE 2018 INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL : PRESS HERE

DIGI MATINAL ON THE OPENING DAY OF “HIDE AND SEEK” :PRESS HERE

PANTOMIME BY ACTOR EDUARD ADAM INSPIRED BY THE PAINTING “GAME OVER” :PRESS HERE

WORKS AVAILABLE AT OUR GALLERY:

“Game Over” -oil on canvas, 80x100cm — Game Over

“A Good Place to Hide” - oil on canvas, 100x80cm — A Good Place To Hide
After the storm breaks, consumes and finally ends, a state of serenity takes its space. Phenomenology would describe the way I, the individual, experience the falling to grace just as violent as falling from grace. But describing floating as opposed to falling, we couldn’t use no direction, only the sensation and the anticipation of a possible dangerous falling. That’s where faith intervenes and turns upside down all meanings, serenity becomes dangerous, falling becomes freedom.

SOLD_ Golden Hour
SOLD_ “The Golden Hour” – acrylic on canvas, 80x80cm. The golden hour is the” few seconds” just before all the light disappears and the darkness of the night veils the world. The magic of it is that darkness is there, but without the connotation of romanticism, sadness, evil or fear, all gone. The levity of darkness. Very similar to that age of boys we were or boys we know, when they have still the few drops of childish innocence, just before they lose it and the manhood triumphs, hiding a glimpse of that light inside.

SOLD_4_Holiday Fluo
SOLD_“Holiday Fluo” -acrylic on canvas, 80x80cm. This is a pair for the Golden Hour, the opposite of it; I tried to represent the crisp light and emotion of the first bath in the sea early in the morning. The girls live the process of hiding their childhood inside in a different way, a certain kind of awareness wakes up in them, and they become, most of them, powerful, but it is a power of a fragile kind. Like the power of light, so easily switched off. I am really fascinated by the turning of girls, a baby-girl, hidden in a girl, hidden in a teen, hidden in every woman. I can see there the beauty of the Russian dolls.

SOLD_“DSO-Dark Morpho” - oil on canvas 80x100cm — SOLD_5_DSO_Dark Morpho
“DSO-Dark Morpho” - oil on canvas 80x100cm DSO is an acronym for deep space objects. They are objects in the universe that cannot be defined as planets, galaxies or stars. They are each unique and unexpected creations found at the edge of the explored universe. For me DSO stands for “deep soul objects”. They are undefinable emotions hidden inside of the soul. Watching games and plays of children, I can detect these feelings, so hard to explain but by a mix of happiness, danger, innocence and aggressiveness. Grace and awkwardness together.

6_DSO Bloody Jubatus
“DSO-Bloody Jubatus” - oil on canvas 80c100cm DSO is an acronym for deep sky objects. They are objects in the universe that cannot be defined as planets, or solar systems. They are each unique and unexpected creations found at the edge of the explored universe. For me DSO stands for “deep soul objects”. They are undefinable emotions hidden inside of the soul. Children play by hiding themselves in imaginary worlds populated by creatures they can only meet there. Like dangerous or exotic animals. All this is a preparation for the adult life where they meet their beasts materialized like strong emotions: extreme happiness, falling in love, grieving for death.

7_Nymphet
“Nymphet” - 60x80cm oil on canvas. This is a painting inspired by the famous book of Nabokov. Expressing the lost little girl inside the soul of a grown woman. Watched through the eyes of innocence, the maturity is stiff and unforgiving. If only we were allowed to live by the standards of childhood, in an alpha state where we could be in more places in space at the same time. Maturity is ruthless, in spite of our many games, we as adults lose the ability to seek and get better at the ability to hide, with the risk of never being found.

An article from OZB Magazine – Artist of the Month – Iulia Toader can be read here.

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IRINA NEACSU: LIFE OF BULBS- 17 MAY – 10 JUNE 2018 BOTANIC GARDENS BUCHAREST

“Life of Bulbs” by Irina Neacsu, a botanic illustration exhibition at Bucharest Botanical Gardens, Red House, 17 May- 10 June, 2018. The exhibition is a watercolor story about the most beloved spring garden flowers, a story of love, time and ephemeral beauty, a story with no beginning and…

VALI IRINA CIOBANU: VISUAL HISTORIES AROUND THE WORLD – FROM MAP TO ART – January to May 2018

We are delighted to invite you to an incredible special exhibition. Even if you just came back from your holidays spent all over the Globe, the maps painted on leather by the artist will send you again into an imaginary journey, geographical and historical. The Exhibition will…

SAMSARA, a SURREAL GRAPHIC ART exhibition, DRESSED IN COFFEE by Marian Simon

SAMSARA, a SURREAL GRAPHIC ART exhibition, DRESSED IN COFFEE by Marian Simon, a Romanian surreal graphic artist and student of Marcel Chirnoaga a genius of surreal art had its opening today at the “Tower of council” in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania.

The exhibition is part of the International Theater Festival in Sibiu (FITS) and will be opened to the public till 1 August 2018. Details at FITS website.

The visual art is accompanied by SURREAL poetry made by Jack Simon from Israel.

“I have never been a coffee drinker, but this didn’t stop me for being fascinated with its color, the vintage color of elegance, refinement, the classic, the oneiric, the dream, the subconscious, of psychoanalysis and, ultimately, of surreal art.
The term “samsara” is tightly connected to the notions of “avidya” and “karman”. Samsara designates the circuit of existence in the world according to the formula birth-death-rebirth. The beings are reincarnated according to their past- life deeds and this life is followed by another. This fundamental law of transmigration (samsara) is based on Indian philosophy and religious beliefs.” – Marian Simon

The wash tint of all the artworks in this exhibition is nothing but COFFEE and Marian uses on the coffee background INK with a bit of white acrylic to finalize its graphics works of 100×70 cm that were part of SAMSARA exhibition at Renaissance Art Gallery, Bucharest in May 2017 and to create smaller works for the move of SAMSARA in Sibiu in 2018.
The rest is art, philosophical thought, surreal graphics, coffee and the silence of dreams.

What is Surreal Art?
Salvador Dali

The initial works of SAMSARA and their philosophic explanations can be admire at Renaissance Art Gallery

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