Cezar Ungureanu

A graduate of the George Enescu Academy of Arts in Iaşi, Romania, visual artist Cezar Ungureanu,
active in neo-surrealist and re-constructivist painting, has also developed his artistic skills in the fresco
and tempera techniques specific to monumental and mural painting, attending postgraduate courses
organised by the Romanian Patriarchy; Religious Painting Committee.
The artist has already produced works in several churches in Romania and abroad, as well as a large
number of oil and acrylic painting, and neo-Byzantine style religious paintings using the fresco technique,
in tempera and acrylic paint.
In his dissociative reconstructivist works, the artist combines the vitality of deconstructivism with the
comfort and rewards of classicism, with the aim of finding a feeling of reality in an illusory world, and of
producing works filled with emotion, meaning and authentic visual language.
Traditionalist in some respects and subversive in others, the artist's work revives the lost pleasures of
classical art; it carries, on the one hand, the tension produced by the deconstructivist influence, and on
the other hand the consonance of a classical structure, using interferences, fusions, juxtapositions of
images, trompe l...

Academic Background
1991-1996 – “George Enescu” Arts Academy, Faculty of Visual, Decorative Arts and Design,
Iași, Romania
Degree/Certificate: Bachelor’s degree in Visual, Decorative Arts and Design

Professional Studies
2003 – Neo-Byzantine Painting School, Romanian Patriarchy, Committee of Religious Painting
Bucharest, Romania
Qualification: mural and monumental painting; “a fresco” technique, tempera, acrylic and oil
painting
1998-1990 – Public Art School, Iaşi, Romania

2020 - Galerie Paul Lüdin – Basel, Switzerland
2019 - Keitelman Gallery – Brussels, Belgium
2018 - Galerie Artidius– Bern, Switzerland
2018 - Galleri Hugo – Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 - ATRIUM - Pallas Mall, Iasi, Romania
2015 - International Symposium ART AND TRADITION IN EUROPE, CUPOLA/ TRIANON Gallery,
Iasi, Romania
2012 - International Symposium A.R.T.E. – 3rd Edition, CUPOLA Gallery, NICOLAE TONITZA Gallery,
Iasi, Romania
2012 – EROTICA, CUPOLA Gallery, TRIANON Gallery, NICOLAE TONITZA Gallery, Club PHOENIX,
MOLDOVA MALL Gallery, Iasi, Romania
2009 – Painting Exhibition MY HOLOTROPIC RE(IN)SPIRATION, The Palace of Culture, Iasi,
Romania
2009 – ANTROPOCENTRICA, SIMEZA Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2009 - The annual international exhibition ART HOLOSCOPICA, CUPOLA Gallery, Iasi, Romania
2008/2012/2013 - WORKSHOP 35, Hotel EUROPA, Iasi, Romania
2007 – Itinerant Exhibition of paintings, graphics and sculpture SACRED AND PROFANE,
Barlad – Vaslui – Iasi -Chisinau – Cluj – Galati, Romania/Republic of Moldova
2005 - Salon ARTIS, WORLD TRADE CENTER Gallery, Iasi, Romania
2002 - GENERATION 2000, TRINITAS Gallery, Iasi, Romania
2001 - Romanian artists in Italy (painting), ROMANIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE Gallery, Venice, Italy...