Safir Rifas

SAFIR & RIFAS

Artradio interview with Safir and Rifas


Safir born on 23.11.1987 and Rifas born on 28.04.1983 in Deva, gained over the years of study in faculty, master and PHD studies, the experience and values necessary for any artist, also we consider that, the diversity in ideas and concepts is an essential addition to development and introduction of "innovation" in the Art World:"the image create the most magnificent cocktail of effect and sensation".
What we mean is that we are , professionally trained and educated in both traditional and digital art, but always there are new things to learn, just to be given the chance to do so.
The new values that we would bring through our creation in Art is that the diversity and originality would be present in our ideas and artworks that would become not only feasible but also of massive impact.
Our creations include traditional painting, figurative or abstract, original concepts, photography, photo - manipulation, digital art.
Mixed technique paintings are made by joining or patching pictorial surface with different combinations of materials and textures of cloth, cardboard, plywood, crystals and pulp color, well integrated in the coherence compositional structure.
On the one han...

SAFIR

Education

Doctorship
National Art University,Faculty of Art and Design, Bucharest,(Year of study 4).

Master / Postuniversitary degree
Workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts with the artist Hans Schnell,Munich,
Germany, (2010 - 2011)

Master / Postuniversitary degree
Western University, Faculty of Art and Design (2009 - 2011), Timisoara
2011 - MFA Dissertation Thesis on image sources and resources "Demonic Rebellion of Creation"

University (graduate)
ERASMUS Scholarship at Academia di Belle Arti, San Martino delle Scale, Palermo,
Italy (2008 - 2009), Abroad

University (graduate)
University of Art and Design (2006 - 2009), Cluj Napoca
2009 - Thesis in Painting: "Adam's Fall"

High School / Vocational School
High School of Music and Fine Arts "Sigismund Toduta" (2002 - 2006), Deva
2006- Group exhibition of Fine Arts and Music High School "Sigismund Toduta" Graduates with graphic illustrations for the book: "Adam and Eve" by Liviu Rebreanu


RIFAS

Education:

Doctorship
Western University, Faculty of Art and Design, Timisoara,( 2013- 2016). graduated

Master / Postuniversitary degree
Workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts with the artist Hans Schnell,Munich, Germany(2010 - 2011)

Master /...

Prize

2021- European Art Awards - ARTMIE special prize- Snina, Slovakia

Solo Exhibitions

2021- Anima / Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilization - Deva, Romania
2018 - Angeli et Daemons / Museum - Deva, Romania
2017- In Nomine Dei Summi Viri / Museum - Deva, Romania
2016 - IN mundi vanitas / Museum - Deva, Romania
2011 - International Collective Exhibition organized by See.me Community / Louvre Museum - Paris, France
2011 - Entropic Field / Colorida Art Gallery - Lisboa, Portugal
2011- Rock Memorandum / Cultural Center Habitus Gallery - Sibiu, Romania

Group Exhibitions

2022 - Cherchez la femme / FORMA - National Art Gallery - Deva, Romania
2022 - Inter-county Visual Arts Salon of the Sibiu Branch of UAPR 2022 / International Theater Festival in Sibiu 2022, UAP Gallery from Piața Mare and the Blue House - Sibiu, Romania
2022 - Jazz Color Jazz / Rocca Paolina - Perugia, Italy
2021 - “ART-in-PAN” - Collective exhibition of painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative arts, photography, digital art / „FORMA” National Art Gallery - Deva, Romania
2020 - The Fall Salon of Fine Artists / ClujArt Gallery - Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018 - Anything can Glow / 2018 Zepte...