Hello,

 

I was born in Romania in the middle of my 20th century.

 

Being irresistibly  attracted by the arts,  I began to sing, paint and play instruments from an early age, in my native Transylvania. My teachers and family encouraged me to study at a musical school but, a few years later, in high school, I switched to the fine arts. For the rest of my life, music and fine arts intertwined in my creativity.

 

I graduated in Bucharest - at that time at the Fine Arts Institute "Nicolae Grigorescu" - an incredible six years classical university program, including drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramic design, philosophy and art history classes. In parallel, I was continuing my musical education in the concert halls. These oportunities were accessible to everybody in the communist Romania.

 

Those were the days...

 

After graduation, I left Romania and started to explore the world. My first solo show was mentioned in a prestigious magazine but I was disappointed about how my art was misunderstood by a journalist I never knew. This was my first warning about the intruders the free art world is full of.

 

Settled in Canada, I continued the studio work and I completed my knowledge in Art History at Université de Montréal. Gradually, I became detached from the physical object, letting my sculptures to disintegrate in the nature, like an old chapter of my life. A new chapter started with the digital image processing, by the end of the last century. This change also allowed me to integrate in my vocabulary the music world. I don't compose music but I bring in my favorite musical creations to inspire and structure my art.

What I had to learn from scratch and to keep learning in order to do everything by myself, are the technical tools.

 

I badly needed an alternative space to liberate my work from the limiting institutional and commercial constraints of a gallery, so the Internet came to my rescue. Web exposure became my permanent, unmediated and exclusive media. Other than this site, I show my work on Vimeo, Instagram and YouTube.

 

To me, art is a way of life, not a career. "Ghost artists” as myself are minimalist communicators, manifested publicly only by their creative concepts. My art focuses on the essence, the inner world, by combining image, sound and technology.