Artist
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Laurentiu DIMISCA
Date and place of birth:
January 17th 1977 - Piatra Neamt, Romania
Education:
1991-1995 "Victor Brauner" Fine Arts High School - Piatra Neamt, prof. Grigore Agachi
2000 License of painting University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, prof. univ. Victor Ciato
2001 Member of Romanian UAP Piatra Neamt Subsidiary Artistic
2002 Master degree in painting, University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, prof. univ. rector Ioan Sbârciu
2006 Candidate for a doctor's degree in painting, Cluj Napoca, Romania, prof. univ. rector Ioan Sbârciu
2001-2004 Collaboration with Vert Gallery
Activity / Personal and group exhibitions in Romania / abroad:
2002 Group Painting exhibition in Mandrisio - Foxtown, Switzerland Personal exhibition at the Art Plaza Gallery - Boca Chica, Dominican Republic / Personal Art Performance - Art Museum Piatra Neamt, Romania
2003 Personal Painting exhibition at "La Maison des Metiers d'Art" Roanne, France / Personal Painting and ceramics exhibition - Visual Art Museum Galati, Romania / Personal Painting exhibition - Collection Museum "Vasile Pârvan" Bârlad, Romania
2004 Personal Painting exhibition at "Albert Serol" Roanne, France / Personal Painting exhibition at "Club Conti" Milano, Italy
2005 Group exhibition contemporany - Romanian Culture Institute Budapesta, Hungary / Group Art Shanghai - collaboration Gallery Claude PetiteJean, China / Personal exhibition Mon d'Art Caffe, Galați / The European Parliament - "Mini art", IAA/AIAP, Bruxelles, Belgium
2006 Group exhibition "Francophilie" - Paris, France and Liege, Belgium / Romanian Cultural Institute - Prague, Czech Republic / Group exhibition Paintings and sculpture - Torino, ItalyPersonal exhibition National Center of Culture and Art - "George Apostu" Bacau / Personal exhibition Parliament Palace - "Brancusi" Hall - Bucharest, Romania / Personal exhibition Allianz Țiriac- Bucharest, Romania / Personal exhibition Philips Morris - Bucharest
2007 Personal exhibition at "Cozia" Gallery - Hamme, Belgium / Personal exhibition Castle Beaulieu - Riorges, France / Personal exhibition at "Aripa" Gallery - Torino, Italy / 2007 International group exhibition at "Covalenco" Gallery, Eindhoven, Holland / International group exhibition roumanien-italien at "Apollo" Gallery - Bucharest, Romania / International exhibition Sigul'art and MAPGI (Libertin'art) Lyon, France / Group exhibition "Hommage a Bacchus" - Julienas-Rhone, France / Group exhibition "L'Art en Marche" - Lapallise, France / Group exhibition at "Faylla" Gallery and "Artimundo" Gallery - Bruxelles, Belgium / Personal exhibition at "Passe-Partout" Gallery - Sibiu, European Cultural Capital
Ambiental art:
2000 Monumental painting in sgraffito technique - first floor Cluj Napoca CFR Polyclinic / Iconostasis painting - "Dealu Mare" Monastery - Maramures / 2002 No.2, Kindergarten "Childhood" - al secco/akryl technique, Piatra-Neamt / "Banished towards love" al secco/ akryl technique - Vert Gallery, Piatra-Neamt / "Cycles of life" ambiental work of 70 qm at "Vila Solomon" exteriory technique - Piatra-Neamt / 2003 "Window man" 80 qm., al secco/akryl technique (akryl colours), GEALAN Bucharest / "Paradise" - 20 qm al secco/akryl technique "Romarta Gallery" Piatra-Neamt / 2004 "Love"- 15 qm al secco/exteriory technique (akryl colours), Andora Italy
2007 "The ideal city" 80 qm al secco/exteriory technique (akryl colours) Piatra Neamt - Romania / "The History of Love" - outside work, 30 qm Raw Art Museum, Lapalisse, France
International and National Biannual of Contemporany Art:
2004 Contemporany Biennale of Art - Alassio, Italy / 2005 Contemporany Biennale of Art - Firenze, Italy
2006 Pastel Biennale Nowy Sacz, Poland
International and National Salon of Contemporany Art:
2006 National Salon of Contemporany Art - Parliament Palace - "Brancusi" - Bucharest, Romania
Prizes:
2001 Romanian U.A.P. prize in painting, biannual "Lascar Vorel" edition - Piatra-Neamt, Romania
2006 Distinction of "Ambasador of Eurointegration through Art" International Campus, Moldova Republic
International Art Contest :
2004 Centre Culturale Paraxo - Andora, Italy
2005 Decourtenay Ambassador's Art Prize Belgium
2007 International Contest of Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Art - Bârlad, Romania
International and National Art Fairs:
2002 28 February 4 march "Let Art Lift Our Spirits"- 28th edition, ARTEXPO New York
Luis Marcel, Professor of Sculpture, Raw Art and Contemporary Art expert
Dimișcă is in a relation of dependence with the new figuration, as Robert Combas, Dirosa...
Dimișcă has got everything to be the leader of this Free Figuration. His work is between Raw Art and Contemporary Art. He has boldness in brush, in color. He has spontaneity in ideas, in the narrated happenings. He is a narrative painter. His inspirational source is the great culture where from he extracts: mythologies reviewed and improved by himself, folk-tales from his childhood, from his homeland.
He paints with a warlike passion, with exaltation, with a great deal of physical engagement. However, Dimișcă doesn't make war but love through his colors. He can pass from icon to the erotic painting. Both will be full of tenderness and love. Look in the eyes of his characters.they love you! Dimișcă loves you too, as much as he loves Art and Freedom. He helps us to travel back in time, his imagination strikes you, overflows, fills you, hits you with the colors of his characters, from the past, yet so present.
What if nothing would be changed, what if everything would stay still.what if everything would be alike.what if there would be no difference.? Dimișcă asks and asking questions means to believe in future. His work is full of that optimism, which is indispensable for the development of the art.
Is he a painter? Philosopher? Both, carry him undoubtly to the peak of the art. As all the artists of the world, he is a defender of the freedom of creation. Realism and Utopia lead his hand, he hurries, paints fast, there are many things to be done and the life is so short.
He is possessed by grace, it seems that he does everything effortlessly, his easiness, his skill surprises you when you get lucky and have the chance to watch him painting-which is very rare. His bashfulness and shyness makes him more comfortable in the solitude of his workshop than in public.
I can write page after page about Dimișcă and his work..., so much did he surprise me, astonish me.he was like a thunder strike. I am sure that Dimișcă will amaze us again.
P.S.: If you will visit France come to see the mural painting made by Dimișcă on the wall of my museum from Lapallise, in Allier, in the middle of France. It happened in a spring day, with a golden sun, golden as his yellow colors.
I stop here! Enough!
Luis Marcel, Professor of Sculpture, Raw Art and Contemporary Art expert
founder of "Galerie des 4 coins", specialized in Raw Art
founder of "L'Art in Marche Museum" from Lappalise and Hauterives.