new paintings

There are times which “catch” you, there are landscapes which „enchant” you and atmospheres which “embrace” you in a way which reveals long forgotten memories… such times are summer, the Mediterranean landscape and the atmosphere of the French Riviera. They all meet at this beginning of autumn in Cluj, in my simple “new paintings” or Mediterranean impressions.  I can say, without emphasis, that the encounter of these three marks has made me incline towards colour beatitude and the rediscovery of emotions felt long ago. The postimpressionist landscape through the Cezannian example, the fauvism with its lyrical Dufy and tenor Matisse, the joy of life from Renoir and Bonnard’s coloured palette, together with the felt and seen blue, which veils you from everywhere, all these constitute the base of my new paintings. Three elements of the landscape become central through their repetition: the blue of the sea, the red-pink flowers of oleander and the palm tree leaves. I think all three are representative to sketch the atmosphere of those places, which cannot stop surrounding you once seen. This exhibition becomes a small station in an aquatic route, started even from the Danube Delta the last few years, from where I still show sketches and chromatic exercises, that I deliberately associate, especially to illustrate these two aquatic universes resembling in essence, but still so different.

The reflections of the reeds and water lilies on the water surface, together with the vegetal element on the blue-green of the sea.

An invitation to painting, I am waiting for you!

Opening day the 14^th of September ‘09, between 5-8 pm

Claudiu Presecan

+ 40 (0) 745591560

HIM Gallery, 14A Axente Sever Street, 400428 Cluj-Napoca

open between 9 am-5 pm / Saturday – Sunday closed

14 – 30^th of September