Mihai Cotiga

I use figurative painting to explore the many ideas I get on the daily, trying to see which
one of them deserves attention. I test a lot of iterations to see which of my ideas can translate
well into paintings. The people in my paintings are very expressive and appear in different
instances from mountain or desert landscapes to colorful interiors, surrounded by
colorful spheres or walking a zebra.
The characters are sometimes historic like Carl Jung and other times they are totally random
and the majority of them tends to be old men. I try to use old men in light and ironic
scenarios, totally different then how they were represented through in art history, serious
and with dark colors.
I use intense colors and the result is a saturated image that we can consider to be adapted
to our era in which we use screens a lot. All my ideas are firstly tested through AI because
of how fast I can test them, sometimes I add art history elements like lone figures from
romanticism or the composition from a papal portrait, then I work in Photoshop to adjust
everything to the vision I started with. Lastly I get to do a general edit of the colors to create
certain emotions or psychological states in the viewer.
My intent is to see the viewer intrigu...

Master of Architecture at University Spiru Haret Bucharest 2018

2023 - Group show - Figures 2023 - CICA Museum - Gimpo, South Korea - August - September
2021 - Group show - Fusion Arts Fair 2021 - Bucharest, Romania - June
2018 - Group show - Singular-Art, Nijmegen, Netherlands - May-September
2016 - Personal exibition - University Spiru Haret" - March-April
2013 - Personal exibition - Museum of Bucharest - November