Simona Florea

Simona Florea’s art is at heart based on the purist notion of geometric, clean two-dimensional shapes, uniting the positive qualities of precision and simplicity by stripping the unnecessary and retaining the essential.   
 
For her, each work is created through a synthesis of the Hegelian dialectic, from the very conception of the idea through every layer until its finish. An evolution by opposing sides unified in contradiction only to transmute into the next layer and start over again until the work has reached its completion.
 
However, as opposed to purist aesthetics, Simona places the human, specifically the female figure at the center as inspirational but also integral to her work. Recently, mirroring her personal inner work, she introduces a new opposing side to the discourse, challenging its current limitations to reach closer to universal beauty and harmony- calling it “stepping out of the self-imposed lines” allowing space to break the rules and to become.
 
You can follow this back-and-forth debate through the accomplished harmony between the rigidity and softness of the well-defined lines, the carefully chosen and placed colors, the duality of flat two-dimensional physical shapes painted smoothly to enhance the sense ...

2007 Acrylics introduction course, Folkuniversitetet, Malmö, Sweden
2007-2008 Croqui Course, Medborgarskolan, Malmö, Sweden

Luftkastellet 2014 May
Kv Caroli 2014 November
Kv Caroli 2015 April
Vejbystrand 2016 July
Galleri Gustus 2017 May
Konsthallen Fogdaröd, Jurybedömd utställning 2017 Oktober
Stiftsgården Åkersberg 2018 March
Studio S, Gallerinatten 2018
September Stiftsgården Åkersberg 2019 April
Skånst 2019 June
Gallerinatten 2019 September
Galleri Gustus 2020 November
Kabusa Art Gallery 2021


Publications
Skånska Dagbladet Påsk 2018
Rum Design nov 2019
Villa Nytt Kulturnummer 2020

Represented by
NOA Galleri (Bonniers)
Artely Market
Kabusa Art Gallery