Mihai Gules

Hello, my name is Mihai and I am a Ph.D. student, at the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, working and living in Cluj-Napoca. My work focuses on the impact that expression and gesture can be mixed to shape the basis of my paintings. Thus the abstract pictorial setting is created in an explosion of gestures, the recurring motif is the geometric shape. The combination of Expression and Geometry can be a representation of equilibrium: a balance between the agglomeration and the still surfaces of the paintings. Most of the geometrical shapes that I use in my paintings are inspired by one of the most standard elements, the rectangle, which I've adapted and transformed into an impossible form because of the existence of illogical plans. The impossible geometrical shape exists only in theory and can be materialized only on the two-dimensional support of the painting.

2017-present Ph.D. student at the University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca
2015-2017 Master's degree in Painting at the University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca
2012-2015 Bachelor's degree in Painting at the University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca

Solo Exhibitions:

2018
,,Refresh15", Paul Sima Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2016
,,Torso", Expomaraton Competition, Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2014
,,Craus și Pfanor", Expomaraton Competition, Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Group Exhibitions:

2019
,,Abstract/Painting exposition", Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
,,The Night Watch", Bistrița-Năsăud Museum Complex, Romania
,,The Night Watch", Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
,,L'Art s'invite dans l'industrie", Energom halls, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018
,,Salonul de Iarna" UAP-Cluj (The Winter Salon of the Union of Fine Artists, Cluj Branch) Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
,,SOTTOBOSCO", Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
,,Vizualia Students Festival IIIrd ed.",Students's Culture House, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
,,Atelier Deschis", Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
,,Art in the Park", during the Jazz in the Park Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
,,1436km", Space 52 Gallery, Athens, Grece
2017
,,Salonul de Iarna" UAP-Cluj (The Winter Salon of the Union of Fine Artists, Cluj Branch) Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
,,The School of Cluj, Painting & Graphic Arts", Neon Gallery, Wroclaw Academy, Poland
,,PAINTING/NOW", Bistri...