Eliza Matica

All my paintings have in common a mental reality, not a physical one.
I am against painting that is based only on observation and theory, painting as if done by robot, painting that has the safety net of theories in painting.
I want to explain what and how I paint, I will define it as a relationship between a mode of observation (internal and external) and a way of expressing it. This is the answer for which some works need to express the idea of figurative, others go to abstract or symbols and each one needs a different way to be realized.
I do not paint a landscape, idea, theme, in an established pictorial way, I do not follow the theories and clearly established criteria. Depending on the psychological state of what I want to express, then I use one of many modes of expression in painting.
In painting you can use color and size not only according to the physical reality, but also according to the mental reality. I am convinced that everyone had the surprise to find and find in places that have a different outline and other physical and emotional dimensions. After a while, longer or shorter, the fountain from which the water once drank changed its size.
I do not paint with the same emotion, but under an emotional complex, th...

Born. Education. Master in philosophy. Back to school. Master in Psychology. Work. Psychotherapist. Painter. We will see...

2018-2019 Postwar Abstract Painting MoMA New York,New York, United States
2001-2005 Master Degree in Psychology Bucharest, Romania
1994-1999 Master Degree Philosophy Bucharest, Romania

Solo Expositions

March 2022 - Steps in Time - National Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti" Bucharest, Romania
September 2020, "Harmony", Cultural Center Ion Vinea, Giurgiu, Romania
2019 „Rage”, at Qreator, Bucharest, Romania
2019 Nuances Bucharest, Romania
2019 Origins Targoviste, Romania
2018 Efemeride Bucharest, Romania

Collective Expositions
October 2020, Art Number 23, "Athens Open Art", Athens Greece
2019 Spring ( exhibition at Hilton Buc) Bucharest, Romania
2019 December - January 2020, „Winter Exhibition" organized by the "Romanian Visual
Artist Union" and "Religious Visual Art and Restoration Association".