Paun Stefan

Autobiography

My name is Stefan Paun and I was born on October, 25 th, 1978. I began painting first as a whim, in 2003, when I noticed my capacity to give freedom to my imagination, that I still feel as overwhelming. My drawings encapsulate the essence of a feelingor an impression to a level that overpasses the ordinary technical form of art.
My first exhibition was being held just at the beginning, in 2003, in the foyer of The Radio Romanian Society, the paintings, in charcoal and crayon, being catalogated as naive. The second similar event was held one year later, the well known sculptor Vlad Ciobanu opening it. Pavel Susara, a famous art critic, used to describe my paintings as „highly expressive, denoting a great mastering of the content, the souplesse of mind, flexibility in thoughts, searching for the perfect form, but not in classical style, but in its purest quintessence, and exploiting all possibilities of language – above a skilled hand.” Bit by bit, I came to „give birth” to such a called linism movement, which recomposes the shapes by using a simple and continuous line, that sometimes intertwines in the eagerness to express the wholeness. Depth in simplicity, all in little, the whole universe in a grain, this is may...

2003
2004