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The National University of ArtsBucharest | Painting Dept., 3rd year

UNARTE IOANA ALEXANDRA NICULESCU-ARON

SPOTS, SIGNS, MEMORIES

HOTEL ROOM’S WINDOWS

From the Window

May 2015

Acrylic on canvas

140x120 cm

Fragments

May 2015

Acrylic on canvas

140x120 cm

Far Away

May 2015

Acrylic on canvas

140x120 cm

Napoly Yellow

May 2015

Acrylic on canvas

140x120 cm

Green

May 2015

Acrylic on canvas

140x120 cm

Hotel room’s winows drawings, Decembre 2014 – February2015, coloured pencils, markere and pastels on paper,15 drawings of 29,5x21 cm each

LUXIA Hotel, May- June2015, acrylic on canvas, ensemble of four canvases of 140x120 cm each, and two canvases of 140x100 cm each (hotel room’s windows)

I live, like all other people, the time of globalization

Loaded with what I absorb permanently from the background of the

place I live in, I am looking for answers inside myself. Since I have no

clear reference to reality (but only memories of feelings and signs) I

generalize representations of the human body. I am therefore dealing

with two existences: that of the visionary and that of the

human (the character compliant to the becoming and the

ephemeral). I live, like all other people, the time of

globalization: in painting as well, I try to gather all the

people in a single one. I put together body fragments –

because only fragments may still be discovered in such a

crammed world. But in essence, in each of these fragments

of flesh and skin are hidden memories retained on the retina

of my eyes as an observer. The result: bright frames that

hide traces of bodies in a continuance of colored steam – the

atmosphere that dominates my thoughts: a dance peeled

from the walls – different every time. I found the bathtub as

a pretext for searching for memories and a spring of my

thoughts: that peace brought not by quietness, but through

the fact that it is an intimate cadre that releases imagination

and ties together much faster all the accumulated

information. Sunk completely in the bathtub or, on the

contrary, creating an opposition with it, I paint with the mind’s eyes

what I lived recently. And this way, my canvases become a journal

that is more honest that what I could write, since through me people

and space may be glimpsed, the jostle of the world running towards

peace is seen. They are all in my eyes.

Stopped for a moment

January 2015

Acrylic on canvas, 80x140 cm

A traveler

January 2015

Acrylic on canvas, 80x140 cm

I live, like all other people, the time of globalization

November 2014

Acrylic on canvas, 80x140 cm

The moon

October 2014

Oil on canvas, 95x200 cm

Hair washing

October 2014

Oil on canvas, 95x200 cm

A DEEPER LOOK FOR ”A VISIONAR” PROJECT – tears like an undecided magnifier that makes

blacks and reds and greens and coats and over-coats

COME CLOSER OR GO FURTHER

”General Mess even my sister's

selfie haunts me when I wash

my feet”

January 2015

acrylic on canvas, 100x90 cm

A PIECE FROM ”THE SQUARE MOON” - HTTP://WWW.TVRPLUS.RO//EDITIE-OMUL-CU-CHITARA-274430

THIRST, 2014 Gesso mask painted

Henna

Tempera on paper

Non-ferrous metal ores. Whether it's latten, copper, zinc or cobalt, there are all women bodies which transmit heat differently. Tougher and more malleable

2014

LATTEN

OTTONE

2014

COPPER

RAME

2014

ZINC

ZINCO

2014

COBALT 1

COBALTO 1

2014

COBALT 2

COBALTO 2

2014

UNTITLED. SENZA TITTOLO

2014

Acrylic on canvas

HAVING SHOWER

2014

wood, plexiglass and gesso

painted

FINDINGS (SCOPERTE)

2014

Dyptic (acrylic on canvas)

Instalation with an aquarium and a breast mask (gesso, canvas

and acrylic)

HARMONY

acrylic on canvas 90x110 cm

On The Other Side of The Door INSTALATION. MIXED MEDIA, 2014

It is known since Ancient Greece that there are four types of

personality: sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric and melancholic.

They are present in each of us in various proportions, only one

being dominant. The personality is built from two completely

different features: temperament and character. The

temperament is the feature that frees personality. It appears in

early childhood and can never be completely changed by our

life experiences or education. We are born with, inherit the

temperament features and they manifest themselves through

the personal way of seeing things, of thinking and of feeling.

In order to align to various standards, not to be different from

the others, inner self-deffence of each soul builds a room

where the temperament is locked. On the other side of the door

the character features are left free, the ones that are influenced

by the habits, preferences and values of parents, but

preponderantly, by society norms.

May I call this phenomenon “intentional filtering of

personality”? Is it in our power to decide how heavy should

the door to our room be closed?

Defloration

January 2014

mixed-media, papier-mâché, oil on plywood

Paintings

PITTURA

Self-portrait

January 2014

oil on canvas, 200x200 cm

Self-portrait

February 2014

oil on canvas, 100x100 cm

Green Self-portrait

July 2013

acrylic on canvas, 60x50 cm

Self-portrait

November 2013

object (acrylic and lute on plywood) 100x100 cm

To the wall

July 2013

acrylic on cardboard, 160x84 cm

Stopped at startup

July 2013

acrylic on canvas, 70x100 cm

A giant

December 2013

acrylic on canvas, 100x100 cm

Counsciousness

December 2013

acrylic and oil on canvas, 100x100 cm

Uncomfortable

November 2013

oil on canvas, 100x100 cm

DRAWINGS

drinking beer in the garden, August 2013

pencil on paper, 21x29 cm

in the studio, November 2013

pencil on paper, 21x29cm

hands study, January 2013

pencil on paper, 21x29,5 cm

hands study, July 2013

pastels and charcoal on paper, 21x29,5 cm

feet study, July 2013

pastels and charcoal on paper, 21x29,5 cm

Study, April 2013

pastels and charcoal on paper, 70x100 cm

Woman study

January 2013

black pen on paper, 21x29 cm

The last supper

december 2013, photography