www.maiaoprea.ro http://maiastefanaoprea.wordpress.com I have a BFA in Painting from the Bucharest National Arts University, and I also pursued temporary fine arts studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design (GA,USA) followed by an Erasmus at the Ecole d'Art de Grenoble (France). What I often propose myself is almost meant not to reach a purpose: I think the importance lies in the creative process. The purpose behind my latest artwork (painting-graphics, collage, assemblage) is to explore the expressive properties of paint and other materials through physical and poetic processes, following the development of a personal dialogue in between thoughts and colors, emotions and memories, lines and gestures, hesitations and decisions. If I were to synthesise in a sole phrase what I think characterises me in all medias that I have experimented so far (photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture), I could say that my interventions, steps, installations and artworks are somewhat self-referential. Self-referential in the sense that my work doesn't demonstrate nor does it present the functioning of structures belonging to the teritory of the real. But rather it embraces these structure, interrogates them, and most of I think my work conceals reality in an artistic process that interrogates the space between cohesion and opposition, between the violence of the sensational and the violence of sensation, in the pursue of a visual expression where reality and imaginary, conscience and unconscious, life and death stop being felt as incompatible. It's hard to explain what I do, because I always do what I can't say. I could say I follow, in a state of almost infinitely extended perplexity, the metamorphosis of my own creative self into very different appearances. I enjoy directing conflicts and dramas of a purely cromatic nature, catching the play of diverse plastic materialities. I use diverse materials, ranging from pencil, charcoal, pastels, tempera, gouache, acrylics, oils, to modeling clay, textiles, wood and metal. I have had 17 personal exhibitions up to today, in Romania, Italy and Great Britain, many national and international group shows and my works belong to private and public collections in many countries. An important international solo exhibition was“Through the Looking Glass”, itinerant at the Romanian Cultural Institute of London and the Romanian Cultural Institute of Venice, Italy. My most significant solo shows in Bucharest were at the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Bucharest Opera House, Romanian National Theatre, Metropolitan Center and at the galleries Melenia Art Gallery, ORIZONT, BAKU ART.

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