I was born on a sunny mid-autumn day, in Romania, at the time of the wine harvest. One year later communism fell all over Europe, it was a time of change. The first seven years of my life I had spent in the countryside, in a tiny village, surrounded by a vibrant natural reserve. Since nobody really had time to look after me, most of the time I roamed around the forest, being completely immersed in everything that came in my path, or through the village and fields, curious with what everyone was doing and why they were doing it. Later on, I was brought to school in the capital and got quickly acquainted with a depressed and aggressive society, locked in countless micro-bubbles, opposing and discriminating each other on a wide variety of subjects and characteristics that I was not that familiar with, but all struggling with the same issues, trying to come to terms with their past or fighting they’re way to their future. Looking back at this period in my life, I feel it undoubtedly left an impression on the way I perceived the world, in it’s duality and how I always found myself stuck in-between, although I was very much a part of it all. To clearly appreciate the machinations of this contrasting reality I understood that I would first need to know myself.
After finishing high-school with a certificate in applied physics, I enrolled in the Fine Arts faculty at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, three years in which all my past experiences and observations of the world around me got condensed on a path that I was still not fully aware of. I dived head first into painting and drawing but also focused on studying human anatomy, psychology, philosophy, and art history, that seemed to satisfy my growing curiosity for what it means to be human, but in my pastime I still found some room for indulging in physics, chemistry and biology that I had already familiarized myself with in the years before. After getting my bachelors I decided to continue on this path on my own, partially because I had no financial backup and taking this upon me would’ve been an unnecessary burden and partially because I felt the need for the raw experience of living within society. The next five years I spent working as an independent illustrator, but also got the chance of working as an Art Director in advertising, in this time I became very intimate with the inner struggles of people around me but also my own; how many of our habits and ideals were opposed to our nature and created division and confusion within society and within ourselves. The past five years I moved out of the city and back into the forested reserve, focusing on my research, development and work in close and unbiased observation, removed from ideological, cultural and theological dogmas on how we perceive reality, nature and our self within it.
I’m comfortable working in a wide range of mediums, the primary one being oil, but you never know what I might use for a better visual expression. My gallery artworks draw impressions on how the unconscious manifests itself in our conscious mind, and how it influences our perception of reality. For this I use a method of “active imagination” that is an auxiliary means of producing the contents of the unconscious that are situated under the threshold of the conscious mind. Close observation of these contents and how they manifest help determining the proper visual information, later to be used in a composition that is purposely deconceptualized. Depicting the self in point of view, and placed in a setting that the unconscious attaches itself to, through particular symbols, colors and shapes but also through non-rectilinear perspective that allows for a rhythmic composition, constructed in geometric harmonies, creating a symbol that sets the viewer in a more comfortable environment in witch an individual conceptualization can take place. I paint possible dream sequences.
My art disturbs those who find comfort in being disturbed, and comforts those who are being disturbed by comfort.
for inquiries you can contact me via e-mail at: mail.of.giorge@gmail.com