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 Institute in Bucharest - at that time a six years full time classical program, including drawing, painting, sculpture, design and art theory classes. A pure happiness...

Years later, 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 painting.  In parallel, I proved that Nicula peasant glass paintings where a precursor of abstract 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.  These days you don't need curators and critics if you don't make commercial art. AI can present you as well if not better than them.

 

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 digital image.   I am my own designer and project manager. 

"Ghost artists” as myself 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 (on YouTube,  LinkedIn  or Instagram) can be of great impact because I believe  that a work of art no longer belongs to anyone after it has been exhibited. Continuing  to grow and be transformed by the public's perception, it can legitimately become a new  creation.   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 has no references and landmarks, but it exists.