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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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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 Academy, painting department - Cluj. Graduation diploma obtained in 1994 > "The Icons on Glass from Transylvania, XVII th- XIX th cts".
1979-1987 High School of Fine Arts, Cluj-Napoca. B.F.A obtained in 1987.
residencies, grants, awards :
2000 Laz '99 International Art Camp, Laz - jud. Alba.
Workshop in arts management: "From Here to There" - The
Amsterdam Maastricht Summer University / Soros Foundation
Travel Grant.
1999 Laz '99 International Art Camp, Laz - jud. Alba.
1997 3rd Annual Jurbarkas International Creative Artist Camp
(grant), Lithuania.
1996 Resident Artist, Vermont Studio Center (grant) - Johnson, VT,
USA
Soros Foundation Travel Grant.
1993 Prize for painting awarded by Accademia Internazionale Fanum
Fortunae in "Fanum Fortunae e Pisaurum" competition, Fano,
Italy.
One person exhibitions
2002 VKB Bank, Linz, Austria
Romanian Cultural Centre, Vienna, Austria
"Impressions", The Old Gallery, Cluj,
2001 "Impression, Le Soleil… Levant (Byzance), Romanian Embassy - Copenhagen, Denmark
"Impression, Sunrise", National Museum of Art, Cluj
2000 Sindan Cultural Centre, Cluj
1999 Cuyler St. Gallery, Port Elisabeth, South Africa
1998 “At Heaven’s Gate 2”, The Old Gallery - Cluj
“At Heaven’s Gate 1”, Alianta Artelor Gallery - Cluj
1997 C. Brancusi Gallery, Parliament of Romania - Chamber of
Deputies, Bucharest
"Air '96", The Old Gallery - Cluj
1996 Atelier Libre Gallery - Ottweiler, Germany
"The Vine 1", The Old Gallery - Cluj
"The Vine 2", Bucharest Bank - Cluj
1995 Credit Fond - Cluj
"The Scale", Napoca 15 - Cluj
1994 Helios Gallery - Timisoara , Romania
group exhibitions :
2002 Omma Gallery, Omma Centre of Contemporary Art, Chania, Crete,
Greece
2001 Finansbank, Cluj
"Et in Venetia ego", National Museum of Art, Cluj
"Visionen 2001", Bad Kissingen, Germany.
2000 "Et in Venetia ego", Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca
Umanistica,
Venice, Italy.
Pecsi Galeria, Pecs, Hungary.
"on-line Ausstellung ART SUMMER 2000" at Geli's Virtual Gallery,
Altenstadt, Germany.
"Laz 2000", National Art Museum Cluj.
"Liber Studiorum", National Museum of Art, Cluj.
1999 Gartenflugel Gallery, Ziegelbrucke (GL), Switzerland.
Sebes Cathedral, Jud. Alba.
Celtica Gallery, Edinburgh, Edinburgh International Internet
Festival, U.K.
Alliance of Arts Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
1998 International Exhibition, Art Gallery Resita, Romania
1997 Cultural Centre Jurbarkas, Lithuania
1995 National Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca
"Atelier 35", Caminul Artei Gallery Bucharest
1994 Aschenbach Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1993 Fano, Italy
1992 Nae Ionescu Cultural Centre Festival - Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada
National Theatre Exhibition Hall, Cluj
1991 Romanian's Contemporary Art - Zwolle, The Netherlands
1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995 Annual Show of Painting & Sculpture,
Cluj county, UAP's Gallery >
1984 Ceremonial Hall of the Turkish Grand National Assembly -
Ankara, Turkey
works in state collections : National Museum of Art, Cluj / Romanian Parliament Picture Gallery Collection / Cultural Centre, Jurbarkas, Lithuania
& in private collections: Romania, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, USA, Canada, Israel, Greece, South Africa, Hungary, Italy.
professional activity :
Member of the Romanian Artist Union (U.A.P.)
President/co-founder of the Arta Foundation, Cluj-Napoca.
Manager of the Cluj-Art-On-Line Gallery
Co-organized with the Rotary Club of Cluj-Napoca “Laz ’99 &
Laz 2000", the International Art Camp in Transylvania.
1996 performed the scenography of the "Blue Bird" show, by M.
Maeterlinck, at The International Theatre Festival from
Orthez, France.
1995 professional scene painter at the National Theatre, Cluj-
Napoca.
1993 performed the scenery of the "Nuts Cracker"
ballet, organized by International Ballet Society
Washington, D.C., USA, in Bekescsaba, Hungary.
1989 co-worker of the old church restoration in the Rimeti
Monastery, Transylvania.
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