Calina Lefter

Artist from the poetic and introspective vein, Calina Lefter takes inspiration from the real landscape view to create imaginary worlds of remarkable lyrical intensity, enriched by bright flashes and interesting polymateric contrasts. The favorite subjects are natural landscapes of great breath, captured in special moments of the day and witnesses of the progressive change of seasons, or still life in home-made interiors of metaphysical imprint, where time seems so dilated to appear almost absent. Everything lies suspended between reality and dream, in an intimate and inner dimension that lives in memory and expectation. Observing her work carefully she sees a material stratification, but also of slow, gradual, cured and methodical meaning, aimed at the ultimate achievement of a compositional harmony that can attract the spectator in a new and sensual context. It is difficult to resist the temptation to touch with the hand the tactile surfaces of her paintings: ripples of color, dripping, and a great variety of fabrics, now soft, now stiffer, now smooth and now perforated, seem to wait for us to bring us back I remember the feelings already experienced before. Dialogue between so many different materials is tight and tight, a compos...

Oct. 1997 – July 2002 National University of Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania
Licentiate in Painting and Pedagogy of Art. Graded 9.38

Sept. 1993 – June 1997 Octav Bancila High School of Art, Iasi, Romania – painting

Sept. 1988 – June 1993 N. Moisei Secondary school of Art, Telenesti, Moldova

Previous Events / Exhibitions

2018 - Whiteknights STUDIO TRAIL 9 - 10 June

2018 - PARALLAX Art Fair - London 3 - 4 February

2017 - The Annual Salon of the UK-based Romanian Artists - London - 28 September

2017 - PARALLAX Art Fair - London - 21-23/07/2017

2015 - EXPO Milano - Romanian pavilion - 01/07/ 2015 - 31/10/2015

Alchemy study materials - (Ricerca alchimie materiale)- solo show, Arci La Lo.Co. Lecco, 2013

2013 - Affordable Art Fair Milano - group show , Superstudio Pi, Milano - 07-10 -03 with Openart

Tactile Alchemy - (Alchimie tattili) - solo show - Castelli Gallery, Milano, 2012

Group show - Circolo di Cultura E. Cimbali, Bronte, 2012

Selected art works - solo show - Openart, Milano, 2011

ObraXmas - group show - Obraz gallery, Milano, 2011

Real different Romania - (La Vera Altra Romania). Famous Romanians in the World - group show - Palazzo Chianini Vincenzi, Arezzo, 2010

Floral Symphony - (Sinfonia Floreale). Public exhibition - group show curated by Vera Agosti, Palazzina Liberty, Milano, 2010

After East - group show curated by Vera Agosti, The New Ars Italica, Milano, 2010

Tremuit Terra - group show curated by Vera Agosti, Spazzio Taccori, Milano, 2010

A brand new world -...