An
understanding of the surroundings, the earth, the skies, the light, the cosmos
even as entities or living generative configurations has led Claudiu Presecan
to a reconsideration of time as communication by inventing a nostalgic paradise
world.
The possessor of a creative drive free of all and any conventionality, Presecan
styles in an original way sequences of his own inner garden, an authentic plastic
universe, steeped in the freshness and joy of discovery.
His chromatic dynamics speaks of his keenness to produce the "expectation
tension", directed not at a real or invented space or actuated time but
rather at a "state"; the nostalgia of the paradise garden being simply
"the garden of clear spiritual experience."
His painting is one flooded by luminous effluence, combining clusters of chromatic
nuclei, light wing-like strokes, adept arabesque modulations, emphatic counterpoints
laid on the secret gold section. Image with him becomes an eerie place, a magical
one where a substantiation of contrasting pairs: male/female, full/empty, geometric/organic,
verticality/movement, earthly and cosmic, is made possible.
The surprise and the unexpected generated by his exceptional creativity espouses
a shift from the ascending force of the chromatic bands of '98, a corollary
to the need for spiritual elevation, to the ouroborous, the cosmic spiral, and
on to the frenzy of experiencing the potentialities of the world. Crossovers,
flexions, chromatic clusters - a sui generis passing from abstract vibration
to a clustering of chromatic nuclei in a cold/warm rapport, supplementing each
other at times in their claim at perceiving the unseen. Thus, the aggregates
of chromatic nuclei, resounding an original shaping of elements from an "unseen
enclave" bordering on the abstract, the exquisite areas of nuclei either
in individual colour or in adept groupings in oil, acrylic, rugged or refined,
evoke a mountain, a forest, the fresh orchard in blossom, the lake, the serene
skies or, in contrast, the trajectory of a star, the melodious genesis of a
galaxy. Dr. Alexandra Rus
National Museum of Art, Cluj
