Born in 1989, Romanian painter Alin Bozbiciu's canvases hover in the shadow of many of the great masters of the past. A spirited painting of great velocity and freedom, expressing the urgency to paint in order to capture emotion.
Pieces of flesh, falling or dancing bodies, clutching, embracing, whirling, fluttering... Alin Bozbiciu's painting is all swirls and movement... "If I weren't a painter, I'd maybe be a choreographer". If I weren't a painter, I might be a choreographer ", as the Romanian artist, who seems to paint in a kind of urgency 1, once said. Like shreds or torches, these bodies seem at once to be unravelling, disintegrating and forming, oscillating between form and formlessness, the life of flesh and its potential putrescence... An impression born of the rapid, unfinished brushstrokes, but also of the light, " ghostly " tones of flesh sometimes appearing almost bloodless. Cool cameos of blues, purples and, above all, whites and grays.
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 brushstrokes, the truncated or contorted bodies carry a certain morbidity in their decay.
Yet they are very much alive - for movement is life... - and seem ready to dissolve. A representative of the figurative painting of the Cluj school in Romania, Bozbiciu's figuration is nonetheless close to a certain abstraction. A very informal figuration in which forms, as if "eaten" by the background, seem to disintegrate, revealing the ghostly silhouettes of works from the past.
Courtesy Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris / © Rebecca Fanuele
BODIES TORN APART AND INTERTWINED
One thinks here of the emaciated faces and stretched bodies of El Greco, there of Poussin's Massacre of the Innocents, here of Rodin's La Porte de l'Enfer, and there of Tiepolo or Géricault..." One recognizes [also], in Alin Bozbiciu's painting, traits reminiscent of that of his master [Cornel Brudaşcu, a tutelary figure for many Romanian artists], notably the presence of almost Mannerist bodies, which tear at the same time as they intertwine, and a certain erotic darkness. " 2
1 Alin Bozbiciu paints his pictures in one day, so that the emotion is not " broken ".
2 Anaël Pigeat, catalog text for the exhibition " Alin Bozbiciu. C'est en toucher les plumes d'un oiseau que je trouve la manière de peindre la peau des humains " presented in September 2020 at Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève.
" ALIN BOZBICIU - LES RAMURES DE L'ÂME"
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