LandE scape
Mihai Paul
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
at a subconscious level rather than willingly. As for the texture, I believe it is rendered involuntary by the subject of the piece and the most recent influence I might have had prior to starting it.
In the last mentioned,” Love is the answer”, there is a clear transcription of the feeling into colours and how beauty upon beauty gives birth to a feeling of love, whatever does not belong to it loosing every bit of nuance. In pretty much the same lines is the work entitled“ Singularity”, the point of singularity being where everything exists, being separated from it one being carried addrift into oblivion, given by the blured lines fading into darkness.
One of the hallmarks of your work is the capability to create direct involvement with the viewers, who are urged to evolve from a condition of mere spectatorship urgin them to wonder " what is it that I hide ". So before leaving this conversation we would like to pose a question about the nature of the relationship of your art with your audience. Do you consider the issue of audience reception as being a crucial component of your decision-making process, in terms of what type of language is used in a particular context?
I wouldn`t go as far as saying that what I wish to stir in my viewers would influence the type of language used. By being truthful to myself and expressing exactly what I think and feel about anything, I believe it will give birt to the recognition and involvement sought in my viewers. Sometimes I fail completely to render my feeling in detail to them, but again, this is a process of healing myself and allowing all kind of feelings, from dark to beautiful ones, to arrise leading hopefully to a common ground of love and acceptance. Most people are not quite ready nor willing to face that soft part within them that is so easy to be pierced and hurt; so they burry it deep into themselves. The most
I could strive is to create the opportunity and space where they could ask themselves“ what is it that I hide”; the rest is their decision and process.
Thanks a lot for your time and for sharing your thoughts, Mihai. Finally, would you like to tell us readers something about your future projects? How do you see your work evolving?
I am currently working on a very captivating piece, for myself at least, which gave me much pleasure and also understanding of the scope and boundaries that life has. It is entitled“ Creation” and is summing up very much of this interview; hopefully it will give to its viewers at least half of the gratitude and love I put into it. The same goes for the rest of my works. Any future paintings, at least to my knowing so far, will continue to reflect my inner self; similar to Mckenna`s mystical journeyer, I travel in worlds unseen by others and come back to tell them of it.
There is another project that I quite put off for months now, being a bit still attached to whatever I painted so far. It consists in placing in a public location, unknown so far, all works that I still have in posession and let them be taken home by passerbyes. This will take place in London hopefully in the near future, so if you happen to stumble upon a painting left randomly on the street, do not shy away and take it with you. This is an act of thanking to whatever forces were at work, that enabled me on this path, and also to try and bring in focus the power each and every one of us has, namely that of giving and bringing joy in other people`s lives.
An interview by Josh Ryder, curator and Barbara Scott, curator articulaction @ post. com
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