"Coordinates for you to dream" gives a personal insight about the human being captured in the state of dreaming and into the dreams themselves. The project took birth as a reaction to the massive promotion of social and political art in important art events but it was also a natural way of expressing myself after a period in which I intended to represent reality as it is. I wanted to escape from reality, from the social dark aspect of life and express a possible world, inspired by the real one, but with an onirical touch. Even if I read many times lately that autoreferential art nowadays is a low quality artistic approach, I take this risk and make my first big project about personal sensations, experiences and dreams. I believe that even if one wants to make an artistic statement about something very real and with social implications, it has inevitably a personal vision and relates to the artist's life in some way. My intention in this project is to give coordinates for the viewer to dream. The body captured in the state of dreaming can be a starting point for a dream but also what happens at a subcounscious level can develop into a dream. The project contains these two important parts: the human being captured while dreaming (as an external view of the phenomenon) and the dreams that appear during sleep (as an internal view of the phenomenon). The titles are lyrics from poems written by Lucian Blaga, a well known Romanian poet.
"Visez frumoase mâini/ când buze calde îmi vor sufla în vânt cenuşa" (diptic)
Desene în cărbune, 1m x 70 cm fiecare
"I dream about beautiful hands/ when warm lips will blow my ashes in the wind" (diptych)
Drawings in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm each
Detail 1, Drawing in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
Detail 2, Drawing in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
"Visez că valul ce preface-n mister/ tot largul lumii e urzit/ din părul tău." (diptic)
Desene în cărbune, 1m x 70 cm fiecare
"I dream that the wave which transforms the world in a mistery/ is made from your hair" (diptych)
Drawings in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm each
Detail 1, Drawing in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
Detail 2, Drawing in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
"Orice frumuseţe e ca o urmă/ de-a cărei coapsă privirea se prinde./ Vezi forma, mirat. Şi suferi, gândind la cenuşa pe care-o cuprinde." (triptic)
Desene în cărbune, 1m x 70 cm fiecare
"Every beauty is like a trace./ The look catches its thigh./ You see the shape, amazed. And you suffer, thinking of the ashes that will seize it." (triptych)
Drawings in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm each
Detail 1, Drawing in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
Detail 2, Drawing in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
Detail 3, Drawing in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
"Cuvântul unde-i, ca un nimb, să te ridice peste timp?" (triptic)
Desene în cărbune, 1m x 70 cm fiecare
"Where is the Word, like a halo, to lift you up above time?" (triptych)
Drawings in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
Desene în cărbune, 1m x 70 cm fiecare
"Where is the Word, like a halo, to lift you up above time?" (triptych)
Drawings in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
Detail 1, Drawing in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
Detail 2, Drawing in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
Detail 3, Drawing in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
"Sunt o clipă, alta nu-s/ Semne cerului pe-un umăr./ Vânt le-aprinde, vânt le stinge,/ Mi le-aruncă-n gând şi-n sânge" (triptic)
Desene în cărbune, 1m x 70 cm fiecare
"They represent a moment, nothing more/ The signs of the sky on a shoulder./ The wind turns them on and then it extinguishes them./ It throws them in my mind and in my blood." (triptych)
Drawings in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm each
Detail 1, Drawing in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
Detail 2, Drawing in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
Detail 3, Drawing in charcoal, 1m x 70 cm
"Ai simţit ce eşti, ai simţit ce sunt,/ Ai simţit ce leagă omul ăsta pe pământ./ Întinde-te pe spate,/ Deasupra ta e cerul,/ Albastru înstelat, se simte efemerul"
Desen în cărbune, 67 x 79 cm
"You felt what you are, you felt what I am,/ You felt what ties the man to Earth./ Lie down on your back,/ Above you is the sky/ Starry blue, you can feel the ephemeral"
Drawing in charcoal, 67 x 79 cm
"În noapte undeva mai e,/ Tot ce-a fost şi nu mai e,/ ce s-a mutat, ce s-a pierdut,/ din timpul viu în timpul mut"
Desen în cărbune, 60 x 80 cm
"In the night there is somewhere/ Everything that existed and now is gone/, what moved and what got lost,/ from the living time in the silent time"
Drawing in charcoal, 60 x 80 cm
"Vis : Dăinuie un suflet în adieri, fără azi, fără ieri"
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 55 cm
"Dream: There lasts a soul in the breeze, without today, without yesterday"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 55 cm
"Vis: Lucruri suntem, ce poartă-n ele/ gânduri ca pietrele, uneori stele,/ şi totdeauna un dor."
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 55 cm
"Dream: We are things that carry inside them/ thoughts like stones, sometimes stars,/ and always someting that we miss"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 55 cm
"Vis: Şi altoită pe fiinţa mea imensa lume/ cu toamna şi cu seara ei/ mă doare ca o rană."
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 55 cm
"Dream: And the immense world is printed on my being/ with its autumn and its evening/ and it hurts me like a wound."
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 55 cm
"Vis: Dacă lumina ar cânta, vărsându-şi puzderia,/ noi am vedea cum cântecul consumă materia"
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 55 cm
"Dream: If the light would sing, revealing its immensity,/ we saw the song how it consumed the matter"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 55 cm
"Vis: Mă plimb pe pământ,/ Enigmă-n cuvânt"
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 55 cm
"Dream: I walk on the earth,/ Mystery in the words"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 55 cm
"Vis: O oră între abis şi umbre/ la răscruci de veac şi teamă,/ o oră prelungită-n slavă/ mi te-a dat, ca-n vis, în seamă"
Desen în cărbune, 42,5 x 55 cm
"Dream: An hour between abyss and shadows/ at crossings of centuries and fear/, an hour prolonged in glory,/ has given you to me"
Drawing in charcoal, 42,5 x 55 cm
"Vis: Făptură în haină,/ O taină în taină."
Desen în cărbune, 42,5 x 55 cm
"Dream: Creature in the garment,/ A mystery in mystery"
Drawing in charcoal, 42,5 x 55 cm
"În mijlocul tău mă dezbrac de trup, ca pe o haină pe care o las în drum" (Compoziţie de 7 lucrări)
"Next to you, I undress myself from my body, like a piece of clothing which I leave on the road" (Composition of 7 works)
Detail 1, Drawing in charcoal, 42,5 x 55 cm
Detail 2, Drawing in charcoal, 30 x 30cm
Detail 3, Drawing in charcoal, 30 x 30 cm
Detail 4, Drawing in charcoal, 22 x 30 cm
Detail 5, Drawing in charcoal, 25 x 33,5 cm
Detail 6, Drawing in charcoal, 22,5 x 44 cm
Detail 7, Drawing in charcoal, 22,5 x 44cm
"În somn, sângele meu ca un val se trage din mine înapoi la clipa de început" (serie de 6 lucrări)
Desene în cărbune, 30 cm diametru
"While I sleep, my blood flows like a wave back to the moment of the beginning" (small series of 6 works)
Drawings in charcoal, 30 cm diameter
"Flashback 1", Drawing in charcoal, 30 cm diameter
"Flashback 2", Drawing in charcoal, 30 cm diameter
"Flashback 3", Drawing in charcoal, 30 cm diameter
"Flashback 4", Drawing in charcoal, 30 cm diameter
"Flashback 5", Drawing in charcoal, 30 cm diameter
"Flashback 6", Drawing in charcoal, 30 cm diameter
