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ART AND ARTISTS ALUVIANS DAM, 1982 POINT SECHE / DRY PONT ON LETEA PAPER 11.7X16.5 IN. | 29.7X42 CM.

OYRE, 1983 POINT SECHE / DRY PONT ON LETEA PAPER 27.5X27.5 IN. | 70X70 CM.

MARTA DIMITRESCU
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden
https://artoteque.com

Marta Dimitrescu introduced herself as a most talented specific features, the local color, the materialization of surfaces,
painter who attempted to approach reality imposing on it strict the relationship set between light and motif. On the other hand,
geometrical rules of shape and color. Her present prove a basic there are a few things highly cherished the accuracy to create
tendency towards what I should call “the appeal to nature”, a familiar environment that undeniably belongs to nature, the
since nature is for Marta Dimitrescu vitally essential. maintenance of proportions between forms and colors.
Therefore, the artist who has primarily enforced her strict rules upon The painting drawings achieve unpredictable optical effects
reality subsequently re-creates it, grasping its vital force of matter resulted from the whirling and flowing in quick sequence of colors,
and color. The creative work is carried on within nature’s frame, from the effective superposition of surfaces and planes that build
complying with the traditional device of “painting on the spot.” It up a coherent visual system. The imagery of Marta Dimitrescu is
engenders an image of nature as it is perceived and re-shaped by a balanced and eloquent synthesis between motif, artistic insight,
the artist’s responsiveness. Thus, on the one hand there are several and chromatic matter. The bend towards nature signifies a real
things that have been removed such as strict subjects and their gain for the painter at this stage of creation.
Pierre Restany, art critic and cultural philosopher

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