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LiGia Podorean eKstrÖM
w o r d s b y Per oLof eKstrÖM
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with her husband
the swedish writer
per-oloF ekströM
how precocious ligia podorean has been! her bright,
temperamental and colorful personality has inherited its vigor from
romania’s toughest and most genuine peasant stock and then it and makes it appro-
merged beautifully into a successful symbiosis with the benefits priate for the medita-
of culture and education that modern times make available to tive suggestion or
everyone, on the basis of personal qualifications and nothing philosophical reflec-
else. tion, beyond the emo-
she was born in a highland village of transylvania, not far tional melancholy.
from the city of sibiu. she took her a-levels when she was What appears as the
only 17 and was admitted to the Faculty of architecture crucial characteristic of
“ion mincu” of buchrest at the first entrance examination. ligia’s interiors is the
at the age of 23 she graduated as a fully educated fascinating tension between
architect and received her diploma. only one year after the softness and tenderness
graduation, ligia podorean set off her first personal, of the painting material on the
really large-scale project: a new residential area in one hand and the gravity of the
the city of iasi with seven thousand flats, including subject on the other; between
all the necessary social, cutural and commercial the fleeting strokes of the brush
units. and the feeling of cease-time in
ligia podorean is an architect by profession a room full of furniture and other
but she is a painter at heart. the surprise is objects, expecting a visitor. there
stronger because there is no change in her is a sort of unreal gleam which gives
means of expression. she mainly uses these interiors a discrete shade of
watercolors and landscape is her favorite light and makes them symbols of
theme. one should mention another theme permanence, while the objects become
though; the “deep inside” theme. this as many guardian angels for a succes-
does not generally create a metmorpho- sion of generations. this method is also
sis in the artist, but with ligia podorean used in films. let us recall Ettore scola’s
experiences like these work wonders. film “the Family”. ligia podorean’s
they open up another dimension symbolism, deliberated and inferred,
apart from the visual one which is operates along with the creative process,
delightful, clear and graceful; she which is slow, elaborated, mental, experienced
skillfully uses the same technique and thereby, invaluable.
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