Ether #40 Photograph - Limited Edition of 10

London based artist Cristian Stefanescu was born in 1968 in Bucharest. He obtained an MSc degree in 1992 at the Technical University of Construction Bucharest, specialisation in Water and Wastewater Treatment followed by the second MSc in 1994 obtained at University of Liège, specialisation in Groundwater Engineering. After having spent more than a decade of his life teaching at the Technical University of Construction Bucharest, Cristian moved from academia to Information Technology holding various senior management positions in multinational companies in Europe and subsequently he moved to entrepreneurship and created his own IT outsourcing company which soon became one of the prominent companies in the field in Romania. Ultimately, in 2018, together with his wife, the painter Anca Stefanescu, they burned all the bridges and moved to London where they opened their own art studio, dedicating their time entirely to art. In his abstract series, Stefanescu uses the photographs to deconstruct and alter reality in order to obtain abstract images, since by definition the abstract thinking encompasses a mental process and an abstract object does not exist in time or space, but rather exists as a thought, as an idea. “I sometimes use art in a reversed process of creation. I believe thought forms what our eyes can see, so I take what was already created by the thought of another and I try to place it back into what is known forever in the mind” he has said. Always fascinated by emotions and ideas Stefanescu is constantly seeking ways to communicate and to challenge beliefs, concepts and thoughts through every artwork. While his art transpires in a constant dialogue with the elements of perceptions, philosophies and feelings in a monochrome exploration into the psychological and metaphysical worlds he aims to facilitate the viewers in our society to see reflected back to them the opportunity to choose the blending of the polarities of so called positive and negative or male and female since “through this marriage there is not the loss of the individuality, but rather the celebration and rejoicing of oneness”. Stefanescu believes that “expressing ourselves in this world encompasses our interaction with the world.