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
