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WEEKEND MANIFESTO – PAINTING ON AN ISLAND
After 13 years I have chosen not to present my paintings on eBay anymore because the politics towards erotic art has reached the highest heights of intolerance and censorship (you can read more HERE). I feel like a castaway on a lost island of the Internet. I am saved. I will do what every forerunner…
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The name’s Art, Erotic Art.
The world has been having sex since its inception. Men are attracted to women, women are conquered by men, women are loved by women, men are sought after by other men. In such a world I grew up, was educated, and most importantly, self-educated over the years. In 2009, when I embraced my new fate…
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IN SEARCH OF TIME TO COME – ORIGINAL ACRYLIC PAINTING, ABSTRACT SYMBOLISM, LIFE CYCLE
Two years of forced isolation. A year of war for natural resources. Human tragedies in natural disasters. False ideologies sold as ideals. Earth now seems like a secret military base where the superior commands and the cadets obey without a word. I belong to the gene of unequivocal humanity and I want to fight with…
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Human Odyssey – Collage Series No 007-012
Earth’s contusions haunt us in all thoughts and actions of the present. We release so many harmful energies and forces that it seems we don’t know each other at all. The planet appeared to me to be a place of play, a place of work, a place to love on the run, a place of…
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The Collage – the art of dissociating the formalist dream from the imaginary epic
– deciphering the European avant-garde – The advantages of the artistic avant-garde lie in the need for an expression that breaks down conventional social barriers, raising unlimited constructions in the empty space of the dream. The desire to step into an unknown territory, virgin in its essence, led me to decode traces of the classicized…
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The artist’s manifesto – When erotic art is within reach of censored minds
Obstruction of any kind, but especially artistic obstruction, seemed to me the meanest method of asserting one’s powerlessness. The inability to understand the flowing forms of art of any kind, the inability to assert the evolutionary independence of creation, the inability not to judge without even trying to understand the free nature of the artistic…
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Weekend socializing – My Erotica between feminism and femininity
When I started painting erotic art, there were enough moral barriers to make me give up. However, I preferred not to restrain the inner voice that whispered to me that everything I do would become coherent and visible enough to succeed in witnessing my own artistic development and evolution. But what mattered most was the…
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Weekend socializing – Why don’t I paint to order?
I never start a work if I don’t believe in it. It may sound more drastic in this regard, but good things only come to me if I put all my soul and imagination into them. Over time I have been asked many times if I make paintings to order and I can’t deny that…
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Weekend socializing – Buy from my official art store and we both win
Today I will tell you why I decided to go in parallel with my eBay account and this official art shop. The main reason is the increase in eBay’s commission fees, mainly due to the emergence of new commissioning methods through which the auction platform collects more and more money from independent artists. If a…
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Weekend socializing – My second life and the world exposed
The modern world is about exposure. People expose their lives. People expose their bodies. People expose their fantasies. And even in that moment of public exhibition, I appear and expose their most intimate feelings, emotions and habits. It may seem absurd to others to imitate the original coordinates of life, but for me it is…
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The death of the artist who inspired me in pop art
October 19 will remain a sad day for me because the artist Ion Bârlădeanu died today, who through his collages influenced my destiny and made me choose pop art as a dimension of artistic expression. In fact, the documentary about him (“The World According to Ion B.“) revealed to me the sad and true facets…
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Weekend socializing – When and how much do I paint in a day?
I used to spend most of my time in front of a painting in the evening. I was probably drawn to the stillness of the night (or its “tenderness,” as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote). In fact, I manage to be productive after 8 pm, stretching with work even until 1 am. It all starts with…
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Weekend socializing – Why am I not on social media?
I want to take advantage of a few free moments that I have every Saturday to tell you why I don’t have socializing accounts and, at the same time, to socialize with you (blog followers) some thoughts about the life of an independent artist. For 10 years now I have chosen not to register on…
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Beware of fake websites who “sell” art!
I have noticed in recent months an offensive by hackers (fake, fraudulent or scam websites) regarding works of art signed by me. First of all I want to reconfirm that I only sell original works (not prints!) and the places where you can buy original paintings / mixed media / graphics and collages signed by…
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