Andrada Fesnic

The main subject that I am interested in is exploring utopian situations, combining elements that are not usually depicted together. I’m not focused on following a strict natural narrative line in my painting, and I feel that this aspect helps me create an interactive image to the viewer. It is like a scenography of imagination. I feel like my purpose is to guide the viewer inside my world and let his/her imagination do the rest. Reality is different for each of us, and the overlapping of landscapes, animals, human figures and elements results in a visual collage that should guide the viewer to find his own subjective interpretation. I construct my paintings like an interactive puzzle in which some parts are deliberately missing and in need of the viewer’s imagination, memory or reason to fill them up. The stories can be true only if the viewer lets them be so.

I start my paintings with a digital sketch that I change numerous times during the making of it. The reason for doing so is mainly because of the distinct qualities that digital colors have compared to physical colors. Oil colors have a particular way of blending, that is way different from digital coloring, and my goal is to overcome these differences and create a palpable...

2016-2018 MA University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Painting department, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2014: scholarship of one semester studying in UK at Central Saint Martins (CSM), a constituent college of the University of the Arts London.
2013-2016: BA University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Painting department, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Solo:
2021 / ”NOT NATURAL”, Estopia Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2019 / “Fractured Realities II”, Estopia Art Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
2019 / “Fractured Realities”, Estopia Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2018 / "Aftermath", A+ Project Space, Centre of Interest, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017 / "Artificial Remix-(Im)possible toporaphy", Matei House, Cluj, Romania

Group Exhibitions:
2021 / "Together We Art", DIPLOMA Festival, Bucharest, Romania
2021 / “Innocence”, Estopia Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2020 / ”Foreseeing the Present”, Estopia Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2018 / GAUDEAMUS International Book & Education Fair, Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) stand
2018 / "DIPLOMA", Dacia House, Bucharest, Romania
2018 / WAW Part 1: "Studio Skin", Urban Culture Center , Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017 / "Breaking Rules" - , Botanical Garden - UBB, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017 / „RE FRESH – PAINTING/ RESEARCH/ CLUJ",UBB ''Paul Sima'' Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2016 / "Vizualia", The Student's House of Culture , Cluj Napoca, Romania