Art for art's sake

 

To me, art is a way of life, not a career.

 

I was born In Transylvania, in the middle of the 20th century. Like any child, I started to sing, paint and play instruments from an early age. My teachers and family advised me to study the arts, first at musical school, then in  high school, at fine arts. For the rest of my life, music and fine arts intertwined in my creativity.

 

I got a solid academic formation at an Art Academy in Bucharest - Nicolae Grigorescu Institute - at that happy moment a six years full time classical program, including drawing, painting, sculpture, design and art theory classes.    I graduated in porcelain design.    Years later,  in Montreal, I also studied art theory and got a M.A. in art history. My thesis focuses  on the influence of peasant glass painting on Kandinsky's art. 

 

I left the communist Romania to finally settle in Canada. My first solo show – paintings and ceramic sculptures - was mentioned in a prestigious magazine by a journalist I never met and who missed the most challenging part of my work. This was my first warning of the intruders the art world is full of, and of the responsibility of the artists to defend their art.  You don't need curators and critics if you don't make commercial art. AI can present you as well,  if not better.

I wanted my art even more liberated, detached from the physical object and exhibition walls, by leaving my  sculptures to disintegrate in nature and switching to the virtual image.  I use the digital technology only as a working tool, including AI, and I can control the originality of my works down to the last pixel.

 

I am a hybrid  artist and technologist. Everything I create and produce, including this web site, is by using differnt apps as well as I can, without technical assistants, because they are the result of a momentary inspiration that cannot be properly translated by anyoane but  me.  Some technical imperfections are intentional.

 

"Ghost artists” like me  are minimalist communicators, manifested publicly only by their creative concepts.

I focus on self-reference by talking only about art, which is utterly independent of all social values, financial purposes and utilitarian functions.

Internet exposure became an exclusive media where my projects are shared with the world, without any compromise or any kind of mediator. This permanent show can be of great impact because I believe  that a work of art no longer belongs to anyone after it has been exhibited. I don't care if I am influencing  other artists or I am being plagiarized  Continuing  to grow and be transformed by the public's perception,  my art can legitimately become a new  creation.   The human creativity should have a dissemination as anonymous and complex as the genetic spreading. Copyright, name, financial and career ambitions are things of the past, so I show my art without taking all this into account. 

 

There is a price to pay for this marvellous freedom:  my art is only known in a narrow circle, but it comes from afar and it is unknown how far it can go.

 

My accounts on the web:  Art videos on YouTube,   Instagram  and  Behance,  travel videos on YouTube,    miscellaneous on  Instagram ,   LinkedIn