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Artist Statement:
ARTIST STATEMENT
I have been living in the
United States since the summer
of 1990. When I arrived here,
I had no sense of direction,
artistic or otherwise.
Shifting from my artistic
beliefs rooted in a classical/
humanistic tradition to the
fast-pace of a commercial
culture was bewildering and
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Artist Exhibitions:
SELECTED EXHIBITS
2009 - 15th Anniversary
Retrospective, The Wisdom
House, Litchfield
- The Litchfield Jazz
Festival, CT
- Square Foot Show,
Artwell Gallery, Torington, CT
- Vignone Gallery,
Glastonbury, CT
- Show for a Show,
Artwell Gallery, Torrington,
CT
- The Living Room
Gallery, NYC
- Good News Café,
Woodbury, CT
- Naugatuck Valley
College, Waterbury, CT
2007 - ...
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Artist Reviews:
They are broken but beautiful
Artist's collages reflect a
dark past in Romania
BY TRACEY O'SHAUGHNESSY >
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
The women avert their gaze.
They look downward, or away.
They are blinded, by ribbon or
reluctance. They turn their
backs. They shut their eyes.
They offer beauty that rots
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Collections:
• St. Francis Medical Center,
Hartford, Connecticut
• Diane Marr, New Hartford,
Connecticut
• Prof. Ilene Reiner,
Connecticut
• Higher Education Center,
Waterbury, Connecticut
• Nell Vismantas, California
• Semina de Laurentis,
Connecticut
• Ruth Lesser Collection,
Connecticut
• Don & Linda Batt Collection,
New York
• Gerda Bolingbroke,
Connecticut
• Karen VanSeters, San
Francisco, California
• Ann Reid, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
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Florin Ion Firimita Biography:
| Biographical information for Florin Ion Firimita can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
not provided |
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
reading, travel, France, music, gardening |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Mixed Media
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Pop Art - (1958 - 1975)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Robert Rauschenberg
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| Favorite Work of Art |
not provided
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Constantin Ciocarlie, my middle-school art teacher in Romania, a wonderful artist and the most amazing mentor one could wish having. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I had no choice. (Thank God!) |
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| Your Personal Biography |
FLORIN ION FIRMIŢÃ is a visual artist, teacher, and author who traces his interest in art back to his father’s modest amateur photo lab, in Bucharest, Romania, where he was entrusted with mixing chemicals, developing film, and printing black-and-white photos, at the age of six. His interest in drawing and painting started around the same time, under the influence of his mother, an art teacher and a fashion designer.
Between 1988 and 1990, he was the manager of the painting department of the National Theater of Opera and Ballet, in Ballet, in Bucharest, Romania, and also as a costume and set painter. In 1990, he immigrated to the United States, where he continued his education at Naugatuck Valley Community College, and at Central CT State University. Today he teaches, paints, exhibits, lectures, and writes art-criticism, essays and short stories. In the spring of 2001, he was appointed the art advisor for the State of Connecticut’s International Art Exchange Program, in Port-of-Spain, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Lately, his fiction, essays have appeared in France, Great Britain, and in the U.S. in House Beautiful, The Sun, and the Hartford Courant. His story “Birds” was included in the 2002 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. The Art of Leaving a film about Florin’s art and life was released in 2003. The film was the official selection of seven international film festival such as Santa Fe, Durango, New York , Chicago , and also Montreal ’s 23rd Festival International du Film Sur L’Art.
His work could be found in many private and public collections in Europe, Australia, and the United States . Between 1991 and 2008 he has participated in over 200 solo and group exhibits in the United States. When he is not spending time with friends in Southern France, he is the co-director of the Multicultural Arts and Technology Program at Central Connecticut State University,and teaches high school and college art courses in Connecticut.
On the web: www.florinfirimita.com and www.theartofleaving.com
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