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Anca Todrican, daughter of the painter Ioan Todrican, was born in Romania in 1985 and showed a strong passion for drawing and painting from a young age. In 2004, after completing her studies, she moved to Rome, where she began an artistic collaboration at the studio of master Fausto Battelli. In 2018, she held her first solo exhibition at the contemporary art space in Campo Boario, Rome; she then exhibited nationally and internationally, notably in Paris in 2024 at the Thuilleier Gallery. Over the past five years, her works have been acquired by collectors in Germany, France, Hong Kong, and Japan. In 2010, Anca Todrican opened her own studio in Rome and began her artistic career, experimenting with an abstract language imbued with a strong expressionist vein. Her works, born from a creative impulse and created using brush and palette knife, with a preference for acrylic on canvas, are dominated by the energy of gesture and color contrasts. They symbolize the power of nature and its ever-changing essence, expressed through rapid and intense strokes of color on jagged, shifting fields. This search conveys the connection between man and nature, representing the paths of life marked by a continual struggle between unstoppable events and the desire for harmony and peace. Her desire to delve deeper into the construction of visual space and to concentrate the expressiveness of color within a minimalist choice led Anca Todrican to transform her artistic language. Since 2023, she has been creating new works based on geometric compositions that have no defined limits, blending one color into another, creating large, essential shapes founded on a carefully sought balance between visual weights. White and black dominate, as contrasts of light and dark, giving dimension and strength to the painting, enriched by a single, surprisingly intense and luminous color, filled with energy, which creates defined and contrasting spaces, almost forming a third dimension. Each artwork has its own visual and expressive center, upon which optical constructions converge, characterized by a single, bold palette knife gesture.