Artist Information:
Presecan Claudiu
Cluj-Napoca,
Romania
Member Since: Sep 2000
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Artist Statement:
Claudiu Presecan emerges as an
Abstract Expressionist at a
time when this art movement
itself has become just a
museum memory for most of us.
His works seem to return at
the origins of the movement:
imbued with freshness, drawing
inspiration from basic
premises. The artistic pursuit
involves the attempt to convey
raw emotion through abstract
means, a long-term modernist
ideal. On a private level, it
is probably Presecan’s attempt
to stay emotionally alive in a
depressing, uncertain
situation, related to the more
general uncertainty of Eastern
Europe in the difficult
process of rebuilding and
trying to construct a new
political and economic future.
The paintings vibrate with new
life and fresh emotion and are
charged with a sense of
possibility becoming reality.
Structure is latent in the
apparent chaos of the artist’s
handling; it is a metaphor for
the structured, disciplined
self. Presecan’s gestural
works, in their flowing grace,
involve a pictographic look,
as well as the awareness of
material and primitive
communication. His pictorial
gestures seem ready to express
the apparent inexpressible in
primary, vibrant colors. They
are on the verge of becoming
recognizable signs, but they
never become readable,
remaining enwrapped in the ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
born at April 12, 1969 in
Cluj-Napoca
art studies :
1994-1995 MFA,"Ioan
Andreescu" Visual Arts Academy
, painting department.
1994 Master Class in painting
with Jiri Georg Dokoupil ,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
course organized by the
Amsterdam Summer
University and Amsterdam
Institute for Painting.
1988-1994 "Ioan Andreescu"
Visual Arts ...
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Presecan Claudiu's Free Artist Portfolio
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