| Claudiu Presecan: statement
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| Claudiu Presecan emerges as an Abstract Expressionist at
a time when this art movement itself has become just a museum memory for
most of us. His works seem to return at the origins of the movement: imbued
with freshness, drawing inspiration from basic premises. The artistic pursuit
involves the attempt to convey raw emotion through abstract means, a long-term
modernist ideal. On a private level, it is probably Presecan’s attempt
to stay emotionally alive in a depressing, uncertain situation, related
to the more general uncertainty of Eastern Europe in the difficult process
of rebuilding and trying to construct a new political and economic future.
The paintings vibrate with new life and fresh emotion and are charged with
a sense of possibility becoming reality. Structure is latent in the apparent
chaos of the artist’s handling; it is a metaphor for the structured, disciplined
self. Presecan’s gestural works, in their flowing grace, involve a pictographic
look, as well as the awareness of material and primitive communication.
His pictorial gestures seem ready to express the apparent inexpressible
in primary, vibrant colors. They are on the verge of becoming recognizable
signs, but they never become readable, remaining enwrapped in the mystery
of their own making: to become intelligible would be to betray their inner
dynamic.
Dana Bucerzan
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