Ciprian-Florin Stancu

EN: I was taught painting, drawing and photography at a very young age, and I owe so much to my teachers, talented Romanian painters, sculptors, photographers whose creativity have left a powerful imprint on contemporary Romanian art.
I recall Ilie Marineanu revealing to me the art of seeing: "When you draw an object, observe its proportions, but remember to also take in the space that surrounds it and the lines that highlight it. Follow that relationship and a whole different world will appear in front of you."
I keep practicing that way of seeing in and outside the field of art. I strive to grasp the soul of things within the gaps and hollow spaces, everywhere absence shows itself and resonates. This paradoxical approach evolved into an intimate relationship with painting, with the physicality of painting, and eventually into a method I call "the im-mediate imaginary" - imaginary without intermediary.
The objects, beings and places that inhabit my paintings take on a special kind of real-ness as they connect to a soon-to-be-manifested world, a world that does not seek confirmation from reality but simply appears and asserts itself within reality.
My work is "im-mediate imaginary" art. While I reside within the confines of th...

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Ciprian-Florin Stancu is a Romanian-born artist currently living in France. Growing up in Craiova, Romania during the 1970’s and 80’s, he acquired a solid scientific background while receiving formal training in fine arts from painters Mihail Trifan and Ilie Marineanu and sculptor Ilie Berindei. Craiovean photographer Nicu Dan Gelep became his mentor in artistic photography and lab work.

After graduating with a Master’s degree in industrial and graphic design in Paris, France in 2001, he worked in marketing and advertising while expanding his remarkable creative range.

After a decade of working in commercial art, Ciprian left the world of publicity in order to reaffirm his own artistic voice while also resuming intellectual pursuits in social sciences and philosophy, subsequently obtaining two Master’s degrees from the University Paris 8 (in psychology and philosophy). He then established a private practice as a practical philosophy therapist while maintaining his own art studio, delving more into a deeply personal artistic expression. Over the last years, his focus has been on painting, though he also occasionally provides artwork, videos and sound design for musical projects.

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