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Impression,

Sunrise

Claudiu Presecan, is only thirty two years old, but holder of fine exhibition record, which is publicly successful and already gaining response. Undoubtedly he is favorable assumed by art critique, once he is extremely carefully preparing his works for the way out for his representation. Ever since his two years ago show, which he named it with tender dispute as "on a heaven like realm", art critics have sensed beyond the character of his explosive chromatic fairy scenes and beyond a certain ludicrous sense of approach. Due to the strictness of a underground conceptual program, viewing a crucial and contentious underground assumption of some specific matters of specific Romanian traditional landscape paintings, is should be surely interesting, for the same clue, to even make a reading according to it, on Claudiu Presecan's steps of hidden creation. This creation is structured upon distinct cycles, only seemingly diverging, which they are, as a matter of fact coherently developing from each other. In meantime the artist is resuming, deepening whatever he feels important for his development within a framework of an essential postmodern vision.The prior objective of this most recent stage of this ambition creation program, which is obstinately worked out by Claudiu Presecan, is also clearly defined by the exhibition title itself. Extending and going thoroughly into the aims of the previous stage, the artist analyses the impressionist painting from an individual perspective, a sensitive approach which brings important results within the area of his own creation. Affirmation and denial of the impressionist attitude in the contemporary art proves, in fact a permanent attraction exercised by this orientation. It has been considered, at first as a revolution with repercussion of decisive importance in the artistically becoming of the 20th century or, on the contrary, as the spectacular ending, of an artistically evolution having as nucleus a concept (the mimesis) which, from the nonfigurative definitively losts its patness.Claudiu Presecan's creation in the exhibition of this stage reveals a painter fascinated by the hidden, chancing and endless character of interception possibilities into the one ad the spontaneous act, so whatever it is revealed to us by image is coming from a subtle joining between sensitive observation and visual culture, applied to some natural motives that had been loaded themselves by inner vigour. It looks like the painter is no more afraid of becoming vulnerable as far as he is giving up the detached, slightly ironic or self-bentered attitude. He recovers in fresh emotion, no cultural inhibitions, a vegetative nature teeming with vigour and he delightly abandons himself to the effect of the moment. He enjoys the freshness of the air and the caress of the wind, of the blue and the light beam penetrating the trees moving foliage or the freakish game of the reflexes on the translucid and moving mirror of the water… Along with this nature rediscovery, light is the first to come as a herd of the image for the painter's best interest. The colours are deliberately limited to the pure prime-tunes of the prism, the full harmony of which is potentialed by the prop's white and colided blacks. Seemingly fresh wet, the water streams emanated by the lake embraced by the sun warmth, sparkling like precious stones, which had remarkably seized the light within their transparent crystals, the colours covers the canvas in wide voluptuous gesture, which, loaded by vital energy ends in a genuine rhythm integrated to the ones of natural being, as well as in the dynamic ones, proper to the contemporary experience. The freedom of the energetic gesture, programmatically assumed by a fanatic abstract impressionism practitioner gives even to this stage of Claudiu Presecan an authentically endorsement, within the frames of a certain acuteness, programmatically exacerbating a mark for contemporary of its own.

Livia Dragoi, Ph.D.
National Museum of Art Cluj
Head Manageress

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