Mihai Paul
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
creatures we are capable of feeling similar feelings; if we feel good and perpetuate love around us and good thoughts most times than not those in our life are inclined to do the same.
I believe the inner landscape is creating the outer one and in return the outer landscape is creating the inner one. They cannot do without the other because a feeling is trigered by something external if not in all cases, in most and everything we perceive outside of ourselves has attached to it an inner counterpart. And is not that one is rulling the other; they are a perfect symbiosis of our existence. And indeed, because we evolve innerly, our emotions, values and everything else, the age we live in changes with us – like the clouds changing how the sky looks.
You allow an open reading, a great multiplicity of meanings: associative possibilities seems to play a crucial role in your pieces. How important is this degree of openness?
I use art as a form of theraphy, bringing out things and feelings that are not unique in their nature, nor limited to my self. In order for my overcomming different difficult aspects of life, or better yet of embracing them, the degree of openess has to be at its maximum, otherwise there is some residue of that feeling left within that might spring back to its former power.“ Truth” is part of that process- here I look at it no matter how hard and ugly it is, by doing so suffering for what I refused to suffer before, letting go of it and comming full circle into the light of it. I do not beat myself up though, as allowing myself to be wrong or secluded is part of the process. For this reason, this confict that I try to represent, people identify it with something within themselves that might need resolving. In viewing any work of art, ever one brings their own background to it – here is my opportunity to reach out to their inner self and connect with them, hopping to bring the understanding that they are not quite alone in their struggle and that beauty is the common ground where love can spring.
We would like to pose some questions about the balance established by colors and texture: we have really appreciated the vibrancy of thoughtful nuances that saturate your canvas and especially the way they suggest the idea of plasticity. How did you come about settling on your color palette? And how much does your own psychological make-up determine the nuances of tones you decide to use in a piece and in particular, how do you develope a painting’ s texture?
Colour is one of the best representatives of my inner state when painting. If one would go through the trouble to observe my first piece, being governed by black, signifying the state I was in before accepting the nature of life and the leap that is from it to
22