Rodica Gherghinoiu Croitoru

My laboratory represents the workspace that captivates me and which is full of questions, doubts, hard work, discoveries, revelations which I treasure, in an attempt of finding answers in order to get to that signature that defines me. Cosmological influences, informational, scientific theories have directed me to sistematic, abstract representations of the space. Starting from black, the color that dominates my present style, I built my compositions through a network of undefined forms, a maze-like road, without taking too much account of certain aesthetic filters. Black is a color with an endless depth that sends me to mystery, unseen, unknown, but
also to the divinity that remains impenetrable to the human mind. The geometric language mixed with the effects of the abstract gestualism, both free and playfull, allowed me to find that certain balance between reason and feeling.
A repository of memory, both of material and spiritual things, affected by time or given the reality
in which we live. A deposit of the memory, both for material and spiritual things, affected by time or the reality in which we live. In each painting, I tried to speculate the illusion of infinite and weightless space, defying the rules of perspective...

Studies
2022 MFA, Creative Strategies in Painting, National University of Arts Bucharest, Romania
2012 BFA, Painting, "George Enescu" National University of Arts, Iași
Member of the Union of Visual Artists from Romania

Solo shows
2012 – ”Body” - Art Galleries, Focşani (RO)
2016 - Babylon - Visual Art Museum, Galaţi (RO)
2018 - ”Contact”, Art Galleries, Focşani, UAP Vrancea (RO)

Group shows (selection)
2012 - ”Am I My Brother's Keeper?” - Bastion Art Gallery, Timisoara and Focsani Art Galleries, curators Alexandra Titu and Constantin Prut

2012 -Workshop '35 - Alfa Gallery, Bacău; Salons of Moldova
2012 ”Ion Andreescu” Art Biennale VIII edition, Buzău 2012 ”Gheorghe Petraşcu” Art Biennale, XI edition, Târgovişte
2013 ” The Cartesențe Project”, Nicolae Mantu Art Gallery, Galați
2013 ”Retrospective” at the Museum of Visual Art, Galaţi and the Focsani Art Galleries
2013 ”Chisinau International Painting Biennale”, Republic of Moldova
2014 - ”Salons of Moldova”, Bacău Art Museum
2014 ”Ion Andreescu Art Biennale”, Buzău
2014 ”Gheorghe Petraşcu Art Biennale”, Târgovişte
2015 ”The sacred in art” - Constantin Brâncuşi Municipal Culture Center, Târgu Jiu
2015 ”The eulogy of beauty as the appearance of good” - Brâncuşi Hall, Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest
2016 ”A.R.T.E. International Festival” , Iași
2017 ” Chisinau International Painting Biennale”, Republic of Moldova
2017 ”National Exhibition of Small Plastics” - Braila A...