Ataeno A

Ataeno (b. 1987) is a visual artist
that works and lives in Bucharest, Romania.

The symbol is a source of inspiration.

The concepts are being simplified and confined in distinct and archetypal forms, revealing the painting as intersection between my researches and interests.
One can extract countless conclusions from this dynamic of metaphors and subtleties within the idiosyncrasy of the symbols.

It's an invitation to unravel the meanings of the signs, but in the same time asserting significantly the intention of the sensorial feeling.

My work oscillates from suprematism to the tendency of complete geometric abstractization and to methaphisical values associated with matter and structures. Nevertheless, going all the way through abstract expressionism.

The images I paint are all about duality and about the meeting of two extremities. The paradox is the central point of my attention. All my decision making process regarding the image I want to bring to light spins around the concept of the paradox.

I have covered a journey through the knowing of the space between the sign and its meaning – which is the symbol itself.

As Mircea Eliade beautifully observed “Not being able to represent the unrepresentable transc...

2011 - 2012 Masteral Studies in Graphic Arts
at The National University of Art, Bucharest,
Romania;
2006 - 2009 Faculty of Fine Arts, Major in
Painting at The National University of Art,
Bucharest, Romania;
2007 International Fine Art Summer
Academy in Salzburg, Austria;
2001 - 2006 Fine Arts High School, “N. Tonitza”,
Bucharest, Romania.