Radu Tuian

My work is twofold: Firstly, it consists in the production of Ideograms, digital paintings I work on my tablet or my sketch book, always at hand. I take pictures, I edit, I draw, I overlap images, I search for new significations and associations. Secondly, in my painting studio, I paint from this digital material, the painting process takes over, sometimes I stay close to my initial visual idea, sometimes I explore further, freely, until it feels right. I let intuition guide me to where the painting wants to go. It is a journey of discovery after all. The motivation behind my daily practice of painting.
There is a back and forth between digital image and physical painting. From sleek computer screen to rough surfaced, drippy, gooey painting. Details from my paintings and drawings I scan and photograph and so they reintegrate my digital work process.
I find that my subject matter and my interests are the result of my own life experience: that of a cultural migrant where old world symbolism and mythology met pop art and science-fiction. I work with my capacity to remember, working with my selective memory; my long term / short term memory. This and the fantastic source of imagery that is internet provide th...

Beaux-Arts in Bucarest / Romania and New-York University in New-York

Recent group and solo exhibitions

2019
- Magnetic Zone, Magazzini dell’Arte Contemporanea, group show, Trapani Sicilia (currated by Antonio Sammartano)
- Grup Show, the Drawing Room, Amelie Maison d’Art, Paris
- Opening, group show, (Ludovic Dervillez, Leslie Greene, Radu Tuian) Génie de la Bastille Galerie / Paris
2018
- Here and There, group show, (Romanian artists living in Romania and abroad), Cotroceni Presidential Palace, Bucharest Romania
2017
- The Encrypted Form, group show (Joseba Eskubi, Joshua Hagler, Susannah Martin, Radu Tuian) Stoerpunkt Galery, Munchen , Germany
2016
- Der Keller, personal show small work on paper, Hohenloche Design, Vienna, Austria
2015
- Living in - Looking out, group show, La cave a Bananes, Paris
- Acquired – group show, Burlington, Washington, USA
- Broken Waves – two artists show (Olivia Janku, Radu Tuian) Aachen, Germany
2014
- Emergence, group show curated by Erin Lawlor, Katrin Bremermann, Yifat Gat, Hotel de Suroy, Paris, France
- Radu Tuian, personal show, Espace Icare, Issy-le-Moulineux, France
2013
- Jardins Interieurs, three artists show (...