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Cosmos Collage

Maia S Oprea

Romania

Collage, Paint on Canvas

Size: 48.4 W x 57.1 H x 1.2 D in

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mixed technique on canvas, 123 x 145 cm, 2009 Product of a process of integration into the landscape, the artwork "Cosmos" was realised in several stages of physical transformation. For now, I will mention only the first of them, the rest another time maybe: I initially put a big raw canvas under the vine in my courtyard and I made a gestural drawing following the way in which the leaves shadows were coming down on the canvas, then I gathered the canvas in circles of metal wire and I let it hang for a while in the yard. Why "Cosmos"? Because the physical making process of the work ressembled somehow -- keeping the proportions of the interpretation-- to the route leading to the creation of the cosmos. More recently, this work has received a bookish existence. In what sense? "Cosmos" appears in the novel at which Liviu, my husband, is currently writing, "Bird Blood on Clothes". Here is the excerpt: "The term was indeed the right word, because everything looked like a knife live dissection of the cosmic space by the hand of a mad demiurge, a cosmic setting split as an animal carcas and held on walls in torn folds. A fresco, an expressionist fresco. She had represented the star clusters through a germinating chaos of drops and disunited stripes, white, blue, green and gray, freed nervously with the brush and stretched and deeply scratched with the knife tip. Scuffling one with the other, describing exploded curves and hot cuts. A map, a destroyed cosmic map. The acute feeling they were having before that scene was that every detail was home to a battle which gave right under their eyes: >, remarks Ulryk. "

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48.4 W x 57.1 H x 1.2 D in

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Painting is located in the center of my artistic interests, and through it I investigate concepts of time, memory, absence, waste, decay, violence, identity, subjectivity and vulnerability 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. Desiring to pull the viewer from representation, I like to draw attention to the painting process and to many painterly 'imperfections', which can be clearly visible in the works. My paintings are often built up in layers, during long periods of time, through a process of recording and analysing natural forms, shapes and objects which I make myself, or my own manipulated photographs. These visual sources often resonate with my old drawings and sketches, which are in turn incorporated in the future paintings. The brushwork experiments in the studio and the repetitive structural forms found in my environment become a language of my work. If I were to synthesize in a sole phrase what characterises my interventions, steps, installations and artworks of the media I have experimented so far (photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture), I would say that they are all 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 territory of the real. But rather it embraces these structures, interrogates them, in the pursue of a visual expression where reality and imaginary, conscience and unconscious, life and death stop being felt as incompatible. www.maiaoprea.ro/en http://maiastefanaoprea.wordpress.com

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