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This is Claudiu
Presecan and he deals with a subject common to all the plasticians.
This subject is considered by some critics to be pragmatic because it
symbolizes the Genesis. Genesis represents the interval between two
worlds – it is natural that the diplomas mark a separation from
something else, of a different reality. Please start the documentary
about Claudiu Presecan who represents in his works a special bound
between the sky and the earth. One can discover here a common motif
with Mircea Eliade who consider that the stairs seen in the foreground
at the beginning of the documentary marks the link between the sky and
the earth, the Gods coming down on these stairs-bridge while the
spirits are raising on it. This approach creates special spatial
relations. First of all the special place of the art, that is to
configure the closed land, the garden surrounded by boundaries, that
hortus closus protected by the outer world, like a nest which is
separated from the outer phenomenal world and from the space which is
enclosed in it. In its center there is the nucleus of the Trinity: it
is a circular space which points at the moments of the rebirth, this
Genesis represented firstly through colour. The colours are
programmatically basic, beeing the essential colours of the spectrum
which symbolize the whole world and which keep coming and going in an
obsessive way through categorical lines resembling to the gestures of
the Genesis, expressed by tough and even planes, but the colour is
bright, ample, fairy and in fact it creates the illusion of a heavenly
space. My hope is that people watching this documentary will be able to
understand, to witness this force transmitted by those images, this
power coming from an enclosed space which communicates with the inner
world. Therefore we can see that this relationship with the exterior is
a limit, through those beams, through the eaves seen by us. There is
the limit between the interior and the exterior perceived as a special
relationship. The outer world which is represented with steep lines in
which we can perceive the broken gestures as opposed to the spiritual
fairy of the inner world consisting of this religious beauty which is
integrated in a wreath apparently dull and calm reproducing almost
identically a preexistent reality, but which shelters in its center the
real fairy. The truth, in fact the word of the truth. The work is
structured in many layers. There is this axle of inner world
establishing the link between the sky and the earth, and the vertical
axle. But there is also the horizontal axle, which turns towards the
outer world, bounding the interior with the exterior. There is a
multitude of relationships and links. The link has acquired a large
symbolistic and it marks the relationship between the act of creation
and the outer world, between culture and nature. Those are the last
minutes of the documentary filmed by Dan Curean about the works of
Claudiu Presecan, a name, a creator, and an existence.
(Romanian Television Channel, June 1994) |