Catalin Tavala

Cătălin Tăvală is a contemporary Romanian artist born in 1996 in Raul Sadului, a small village near Sibiu, Romania. He graduated from the theoretical high school ''Octavian Goga'' 2015, in the biochemistry department and later pursued a BA and MA in Graphics, a part of the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca's Fine Arts faculty.

Tăvală uses traditional figurative painting as his main outlet of expression, portraying ominous and unsettling compositions that unearth the darker and honest truths of contemporary life.

Employing iconographical and figurative symbolism, Tăvală harnesses themes of freedom, the soul, and our moral value system, and integrates them with his style of stark and empirical painting. Through this process, he creates a ruinous atmosphere that captivates the viewer in a raw and unforgiving manner. Coalescing empiricism with self-expression, Tăvală uses drawing as a means to document and analyse his experiences, creating a visual language that borders the temporal and psychological realms. Using representational elements in his work, he portrays animalistic hybrids, isolation, motion, stagnancy, and figures in manufactured settings, all acting as metaphors for the modern man's attitude towards the...

Art and Design University in Cluj- Napoca, graphics department.

2019-Expoziţie de grup ’’Il Castello dei Destini Riscontrati’’, galeria de artă Accademia di Romania, Roma, Italia.
2019- ”HUNGER” expoziţie de grup în cadrul Festivalului Terra del Pane, 9 noiembrie- 13 ianuarie 2019, Fondazione Sassi, Matera, Italia
2018- Expoziţie de grup Confluenţe, ediţia a II-a, Galeria Art Nouveau, Palatul Culturii, Târgu Mureş, România
2018-Bienala de grafică din Ţinutul Secuiesc/ Graphic Art Biennial of Szecklerland, ediţia a V-a Sfântul Gheorghe, România
2018- Expoziţia absolvenţilor Universităţii de Artă şi Design Cluj-Napoca,
Expotransilvania, Cluj-Napoca, România
2018- Expoziție de grup ‘’Gravură’’, Complexul Muzeal Bistrița-Năsăud, România
2017- Workshop de gravură/printmaking, Complexul Muzeal Bistrița-Năsăud
2017- Expoziție ‘’Halenă’’ in cadrul competiţiei Expo Maraton, (o serie de 18 expoziții ale studenților Universitații de Artă si Design Cluj-Napoca), Galeria "Casa Matei", Cluj-Napoca, România
2016- Bucharest International Print Biennale (BIPB), Bucuresti, România
2016- Festivalul Național Studențesc Vizualia, ediția a II- a, Cluj-Napoca, România
2016- Workshop de desen, Beliș, Cluj-Napoca, România
2014- Expoziție de pictură “Impulsii Corozive...