Andu Ava

I like to describe myself as born and grew in Bucharest, matured in Venice and refined in London , as a joke for my closest friends.
Can’t describe myself as a Romanian or Italian artist. Artistically speaking I can’t say I belong to a certain country, I like to think that my art belongs and identifies with all cultures. My subjects are universal just like art itself.

I like playing at the fine border between moral and immoral, between instinct and sex, proposing shocking subjects with the intention of changing the points of view and challenge my viewers actively to respond emotionally
I paint on a large canvas, as I believe the image I create must subdue the spectator, it must have the power to place him in the universe I propose, where he is powerless and must endure.
Every exhibition is a social experiment. I care deeply for the thinking process that my art generates in the spectator’s mind. I find it very important that those who enter the exhibition room should be affected at a deep human level, that nobody should leave the exhibition room indifferent to the subject I have proposed. I deem this my personal visiting card.
My working method is almost always based on projects made of a series of paintings, drawings, a...

2014- MA in Painting, Visual arts at Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2010- BA in Painting , Visual Arts at National University of Fine Arts Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
2007- High School N. Tonitza, Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania

- 30 May – 30 June 2014 group exhibition at Banchina, Mestre/Venice, Italy
- 6-22 Feb 2014 - personal exhibition ''Diary of Maria Cenusa'' at Bistrot de Venice, Venice/Italy
- 1-22 June 2013 - personal exhibition ''Shock therapy'' exclusive entry only for 40 people at Palazzo Botteri, Venice/Italy
- 15 Jan -15 Feb 2013- personal exhibition ''Diana's Venetian Diary'' at Palazzo Badoer, Venice/Italy
- 9-19 Sep 2011- group exhibition ''Ten'' at European Gallery, Bucharest/Romania
- 1-3 September 2011 Group exhibition “Ten” at Caelum Gallery, Chelsea New York
- 20 August-5 September 2011 Personal Exhibition “Diana’s Venetian Diary” at the Small Gallery of Romanian Cultural Institute of Venice- Correr Palace
- 23 June 2011 , Happening Art : Pudency- Diana meets the public, event for Biennale of Arts Venice
- 18-29 July 2011 Group Exhibition “TEN- Remembering” at Catacomba Gallery in Bucharest
- 8 July 2011 Performance - Body painting at Bar Collo Mody in Venice
- 19 June 2011 White Night of Fine Arts Accademy of Venice with “Diana’s Venetian Diary”
- 2 June 2011 Happening Art “Pudency” for the Bienalle of Arts Venice
- 28 may -18 June 2011 – “Andu in exile” at Bar Collo – Venice, Italy
- 30 July – 9 of Augusto 2010 exhibit...