Marina Hirlea

Born in Bucharest (Romania), Marina Hirlea graduated from The School of Fine Arts at the University of Strasbourg, France. She has lived for several years in Montpellier, then in Mèze in southern France, where her artist studio is located.

Artistic approach:
Marina’s work is mainly non-figurative oil on canvas, inspired by natural and urban landscape, and by the abundant fabrics of haute couture creators.
 
While painting she tries to reach out for her inner core, and by purifying the shapes and forms that she creates she allows the viewer to derive their own stories with each and every glance.
 
The monochrome canvases, such as “Winter landscape” and “Pong” (visible on the website), are elaborated in detail and thickness, and inspire to viewer tranquility and meditation.

The wealth of the details and the abounding colors of polychrome paintings, their lace shapes, would like to convey the idea that beauty is just as omnipresent as the more somber aspects of daily life.
 

MA in School of Fine Arts at the University of Strasbourg, France.
University of Architecture Ion Mincu in Bucharest, Romania

19 June-19 September 2021: Group exhibition at Maison Gramont in Medieval city of Fanjeaux, near Carcassonne, Occitanie, South of France
June 2021: International Contemporany Art Fair, Mulhouse France
March 2020: International Contemporary Art Fair Toulouse, France
February 2020: GSAA art fair, La Bellevilloise, Paris
January 2020: International Contemporary Art Fair Art3f Paris
April 2019: Personal exhibition Galerie En Apparté in La Rochelle, France
September 2018: collective exhibition Chateau Conti at the Isle of Adam, France
August 2018: Personal exhibition Galerie Cara Mars in Auxerre, France
June 2018: Luxembourg International Contemporary Art Fair
January 2018: International Contemporary Art Fair Art3f Paris