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MARS AND VENUS II, 2020 OIL ON CANVAS 27.5X39.3 IN. | 70X100 CM.
FINE ART CULTURE THE PROPOSAL, 2020 OIL ON CANVAS 27.5X39.3 IN. | 70X100 CM.

DREAM OF GIORY II, 2020 ACRYLIC AND OIL/PAPER, MAROUFLAGE 78.4X78.4 IN. | 200X200 CM.

DREAM OF GIORY II, 2020 ACRYLIC AND OIL/PAPER, MAROUFLAGE 78.4X78.4 IN. | 200X200 CM.

CALIN BELOESCU
Lives and works in Timisoara, Romania
https://www.facebook.com/beloescu.calin

Calin Beloescu lives and works in Timisoara. He is a professor
at the Painting Department of the Faculty of Arts and Design
of the West University of Timisoara. Calin belongs to the 1980
generation and is the leader of the Atelier 35 Timisoara group
of artists. He experiments on performance and installations,
collage and new media, although he remains faithful to
painting.The Point collection starts with a selction of Calin
Beloescu’s works, from the 1970’s to the present. It comes
as a natural consequence of his artwork taken as a whole
that he is considered among the masters of Romanian
painting. Beloescu’s painting establishes three major themes:

the house as the ultimate place for the ego’s experience,
the memory as psychological écorché, and the path as
labyrinthine plot. These themes generate new narratives in
various discursive forms and assertions. The eloquence of
the pictorial matter is justified in the language, is uniform
and goes beyond the immediate expression. Calin Beloescu’s
art works store the deepest worries, as well as tensions and
social dramas. His work is not a narcissistic comment about
the world’s transitory expressiveness, but an attempt to
stop the world, to suspend it in an effigy. As far as spiritual
dynamics and general stylistics are concerned, Calin Beloescu
is a Platonic spirit, and his relations with the sensitive and
visible side of the real are absolute and unequivocal. The
artist re-composes matrix-type landscapes, he summarizes
the space without losing its support, he defines syncopated
structures in a certain order of their trajectories. Reflection
is highly individualized and self-referential, an image-base
monograph of emotions, a tolerable and achievable universe.
This individual wrapping of the geo-historical periphery
provides reality with the significance of a document, eluding
transcendental time. (Dana Sarmes)

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