"Sweets for my sweet" Painting

Mihaela Barbu is a professional visual artist, with a Master degree of the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Painting department. She participated at groups art exhibitions organized by ICR Romania, the Union of Visual Artists in Romania, well-known galleries and museums in the country, as well as at two personal art exhibitions. All her projects have a common denominator, namely “Alterations”. The perspective is doubled: alteration seen from the outside (corroded or rusty structures, objects, materials) but also from the inside, in the form of feelings or moods (pandemic moods). Most of the works are the result of field research, images resulting from photographs, computer processing and then transfer to canvas using acrylic paints and painting knives. Through these themes, altered objects and altered feelings come to life, they tell a story that the viewer must reconstruct in a personal way. The effort to recover these images through painting is justified by the fact that it is still a warning about a dark future for humanity if it does not radically transform its lifestyle, but also offers a message of hope that all is not lost: art can transform something ugly and sad in everything they want to see and interpret the viewer’s eyes.