CăTăLin Precup

Cătălin Precup (b. 1981, Târgu Mureș) is a Romanian visual artist specialized in fine art painting. He has studied at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, and is currently based in Sibiu, where he teaches painting and is part of the Brukenthal von Studio collective. His works have been presented in personal and group exhibitions nationally and internationally.

Although figurative, he is interested more in capturing that subtle and sometimes total slip of the reality in the realm of the incredible, the imaginary, the unusual and the oneiric, than mere representation, with a clarity of a medused oculus mentis. Consequently, through several alchemical stages, which can be subsumed under a process of creative visualization, it transfigures a reality analogous to the usual one, which leaves more room for allegory, reflection, transrational, sensuality, humor and enigma.

Cluj-Napoca University of Art and Design, 2004 (BA), 2006 (MA)

Recent exhibitions:

2016 Metamorphosis: Franz Kafka Tribute, Dedalus Studi&Bellantarte, Ripattoni in arte, Palazzo Saliceti, Ripattoni (IT)

2017 Heritage of the future: the contemporary art collection of Brukenthal National Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sibiu (RO)

2018 International Surrealism Now, Museu Multimedia PO.RO.S, Condeixa-a-Nova (PT)

Tendenze visive dopo postmodernismo, GAMeC CentroArteModerna di Pisa, Pisa (IT)

Rural Guerilla, Sibiu City Hall (RO)

Opera Somnia, The Town of Artists, Small Square, Sibiu (RO)

International Surrealism Now, Casa Municipal da Cultura de Coimbra (PT)

Pavone, Museo D'Arte Costantino Barbella, Chieti (IT)

National Salon of Contemporary Art - Centenary, C.A.V. - Căminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest (RO)

2019 International Surrealism Now, Galeria Municipal Tony Vitorino, Vieira de Leiria, Marinha Grande (PT)

Greek veil #7, National Library of Romania, Bucharest (RO)

International Surrealism Now, Art Shopping, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris (FR)

Rural Guerilla Reloaded, Sibiu City Hall (RO)

2020 National Small Art Salon - Brăila, 21st edition, Brăila Art Gallery (RO)

Sibiu Contemporary Art Festival (SCAF #1), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sibiu (RO)