Daniela Orban

Born in Bistrita, Romania, in 1991, Daniela Orban is a visual artist currently living and working in Cluj-Napoca. Her works present the space movement in an abstract, natural or artificial way, but transmits in the same time emotion and energy. The paintings are made of an assemblage of different layers of dried colors which are put together on the canvas, having a final intervention of geometric shapes or brushstrokes. The image presented to the observer is in fact the back of the painting which exposes the first layer of the color, frozen at the moment when the colors touched the plexiglass surface. This space of dynamics and vibrancies is an experimental one, defined by chromatic tones and accents, where the interior and exterior overlap, reject or intersect, accidentally or willingly, building a sequence of abstract imaginary landscapes. The colored surface positively scintillates with energy as the brushstrokes create a tight network of interwoven forms containing an array of bright colors. The works change the perspective in understanding the pictorial process in the eyes of the beholder and aim to step into a new universe of art technics and conceptual vision.

Daniela Orban graduated in 2016 with a master's degree from the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Painting department. In 2011 she received a scholarship in the United Kingdom at Birmingham City University, and in 2013 at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Macerata.

Oct 2020 - Unirea Open Studios
NAG, Group exhibition, Cluj-Napoca

Oct 2018 - The disassembly perspective, CENTRUL DE INTERES, Cluj-Napoca

Feb 2016 - Point of view | Master’s degree exhibition
Casa Matei Cluj Napoca

Dec 2015 - Introspecţii Expresioniste
Group exhibition, Galeriile Minerva, Cluj-Napoca

Feb 2014 - Open Days Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata, Via Berardi 6, Macerata Italy

Jun 2013 - ID Identitate - Graduate student exhibition
Expo Transilvania Cluj Napoca

Dec 2011 - 92 Days Exhibition, Margaret Street School of Art, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Jun 2009 - PORTRET Group Exhibition | Turnul Dogarilor Bistrița-Năsăud