Viorel Popescu

These are paintings-of-paintings and in this sense, copies, reproductions from a personal invisible gallery.I re-member my own paintings. They'll always be copies, sometimes copies of copies, and I feel that it all rhymes well with our fragmented, derivative times.Speaking of which: I cover only as much as I can complete in one go, therefore the canvas is divided into more or less equal "slices". Naturally, there are differences between these different parts, as each day is different.
I do not see a real difference between writing and painting, as both gesture and intent. Just using a different range of ideograms, that's all.
I use words like others use nature as reference...this is where the power of image seems to stem from: this conceptual / perceptual balance......the imagery I use has to do with: the equation nature / man-made nature, the confusions and misunderstandings of human intercourse, the irrelevance of emotion, the notion of guidance, of consuming art and consuming anything else, but especially with the paradox of failure, the luminous, celebratory sense of failure which contains its own success like a seed.

Institute of Fine Arts Bucharest / Romania