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Artist Statement

My paintings and drawings are reflections of my life’s journey, which began in Bucharest, Romania, and took me through several cultural and geographical spaces to Vienna, Paris and Washington, DC.

Since my early years I have been attracted by the power of images as a means of exploring the subjective perception of time and space. Memories intermingled with symbols from art and history are projected onto canvas or paper as from a magic lantern. They are sequences of a never-ending story.

The little mechanical marionettes in my painting navigate on their wheels in a labyrinth where they meet with figures from the past: Casanova running around with his conquests, Saskia deciphering the enigma of Pascal’s sphere, meninas playing with monkeys, wigged actors under arcades with chandeliers. Sometimes the little marionettes are thrown together in what could be a “fete galante”; at other times, solitary, they run aimlessly on their useless ill-fitting wheels. Are they really moving or just pretending? Are they on their own, or somebody is pulling the strings?