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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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