Valentin Marian Ionescu

The way I perceive reality depends on the experience, the perspective from which I relate, referring permanently to my personal scale of values, to principles, by refining sensations or elating emotions. Contrasts accompany the quotidian with the same measure in which contradictions seem to be more present and heightened. The inversion, the other half of the coin, the mirroring, the paradox, all of those leads and emphasize the ancestral fear of the unknown, forcing me at the same time in finding a solution towards solving, to a consensus, thus enabling me to overcome the limits imposed or self-imposed by the subconscious.


The landscape exposed is based on a re-interpretation of pre-existent landmarks, presented as a sum of emotional and sensory connections, and also by
re-composing those landmarks under the form of emotional maps, spaces and surfaces converged into a network of ratios which simulates and renders at the overall level and in detail a wealth of connections expressed and operated by specific working methods of painting.

The paintings are materialized through a series of overlapping of the natural and the artificial that creates a dialogue between controlled or impulsive gestures between accident and intentio...

BA at University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, currently attending the MA programme at the aforementioned institution.

2015 - The light of Dobrogea - group exhibition at the Museum of Art, Constanta, Romania;

2015 - Configurations - group exhibition, Bistrita, Romania;

2015 - Spazi Aperti - You are here, - group exhibition at the Romanian Accademy in Rome, Rome, Italy;

2014 - Creative Attitudini - personal exhibition at the Accademy of Fine arts, Lecce, Italy;

2013 - 2014 - artistic residence at the Spatiu Intact Foundation, Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj-Napoca, Romania;

2013 - Cutting Edge II - group exhibition at the Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca, Romania;

2012 - 2013 - Harvest I Proletkult - participation in group project at the Visual Kontakt Gallery, Oradea, Romania.