Born in 1989, Romanian painter Alin Bozbiciu evokes the spirit of many great masters of the past in his canvases. His painting is full of passion, with great speed and freedom, expressing the urgency of painting in order to capture emotion.
Pieces of flesh, falls or dances of bodies, bodies clinging, embracing, whirling, fluttering… Alin Bozbiciu's painting is nothing but whirlpools and movements… If I weren't a painter, I might be a choreographer "The Romanian artist, who seems to be painting with a sense of urgency, was able to say this." 1. Resembling tatters or torches, these bodies appear simultaneously to fray, disintegrate, and form, oscillating between shape and formlessness, the life of the flesh and its potential putrefaction… An impression born from the quick and unfinished brushstrokes, but also from the light tones, “ ghostly "Flesh that sometimes appeared almost bloodless. Shades of cold tones, blues, purples, and especially whites and greys."
oil on canvas, diptych / 190 x 300 cm (74 3/4 x 118 1/8 in.)
Courtesy Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris / © Rebecca Fanuele
TORCH BODIES
Emerging from the maelstrom of touches, the truncated or contorted bodies carry in their decay a certain morbidity.
Yet, very much alive—for movement is life—they seem as if on the verge of dissolving. A representative of the figurative painting of the Cluj school in Romania, Bozbiciu nonetheless practices a figuration close to a certain abstraction. A very informal figuration where the forms, as if "eaten" by the backgrounds, seem to disintegrate while revealing the ghostly silhouettes of works from the past.
Courtesy Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris / © Rebecca Fanuele
BODIES TEARING APART AND INTERTWINING
One might think here of the emaciated faces and elongated bodies of El Greco, there of Poussin's Massacre of the Innocents, here of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, and there of Tiepolo or Géricault… One can also recognize in Alin Bozbiciu's painting traits reminiscent of his master [Cornel Brudaşcu, a tutelary figure for many Romanian artists], notably the presence of almost Mannerist bodies, which tear themselves apart as they intertwine, and a certain erotic darkness 2 »
1 Alin Bozbiciu paints his pictures in one day, so that the emotion is not " cassée ».
2 Anaël Pigeat, text from the exhibition catalog “ Alin Bozbiciu. It is by touching the feathers of a bird that I find the way to paint human skin » presented in September 2020 at the Suzanne Tarasiève Gallery.
“ALIN BOZBICIU – THE BRANCHES OF THE SOUL”
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