FROM “PAINTED DIGITAL ABBREVIATIONS”, THROUGH ANDREA POZZO, TO THE “PAINTING HEART”—SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU’S RECENT ART FROM “PAINTED DIGITAL ABBREVIATIONS”, THROUGH ANDREA POZZO, TO THE “PAINTING HEART”—SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU’S RECENT ART CRISTIAN–R. VELESCU Cătălin Bălescu’s creative journey decisively crosses the territories of the painting itself. It…
HOW CAN WE HELP A PUTTO RESIST TEMPTATION TO BECOME OR A BRIEF PLEA FOR THE IMAGE RIGHT IN CHARACTER HISTORIOGRAPHY HOW CAN WE HELP A PUTTO RESIST TEMPTATION TO BECOME OR A BRIEF PLEA FOR THE IMAGE RIGHT IN CHARACTER HISTORIOGRAPHY MIHAELA VELEA The first feeling created by Cătălin Bălescu’s works is…
INEFFABLE AND AUSTERE, FOREWORD TO THE DISOLUTION IN ABSOLUTE INEFFABLE AND AUSTERE, FOREWORD TO THE DISOLUTION IN ABSOLUTE DIRECTOR EMILIAN ȘTEFÂRȚĂ Cătălin Bălescu presents a distinctive plastic speech on the painting moldings of the Craiova Art Museum, in an exceptional…
THE HIDE-AND-SEEK OF THE PAINTING NOTES ON CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU’S PAINTINGS THE HIDE-AND-SEEK OF THE PAINTING NOTES ON CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU’S PAINTINGS RUXANDRA DEMETRESCU Painting is nothing more than an idea of immaterial things, although they represent bodies, rendering only the order and…
SCATTERED (BAROQUE) THOUGHTS ABOUT CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU’S PAINTING SCATTERED (BAROQUE) THOUGHTS ABOUT CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU’S PAINTING RUXANDRA DEMETRESCU La pensée moderne s’est peut‑être inventé le baroque comme son miroir. (Gérard Genette) I shall begin these lines about Cătălin Bălescu’s exhibition…
CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU: THE NEOBAROQUE OR THE AMBIVALENCES OF THE ROMANIAN CONTEMPORARY ART CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU: THE NEOBAROQUE OR THE AMBIVALENCES OF THE ROMANIAN CONTEMPORARY ART VICTOR NEUMANN Cătălin Bălescu’s works can be perceived as a discontinuity or rather, as a break in continuity. In…
The state of painting: from studies to projectionsSome notes on Cătălin Bălescu’s painting The state of painting: from studies to projections Some notes on Cătălin Bălescu’s painting Ruxandra Demetrescu … il n’y a pas de clarté qui ne se tire d’un fond obscure (Gilles Deleuze)…
Mannerism and soteriology The Mannerism and soteriology Luigi Bambulea The level break leading to the formation of the Mannerist conception of art and world can be explained by the breaking of the knot, the “vanishing…
„In search of lost mannerism” – paintings by Cătălin Bălescu, present on MNAC picture rails „In search of lost mannerism” – paintings by Cătălin Bălescu, present on MNAC picture rails Cristian-Robert Velescu Here is a Proustian title, meant to open my considerations on the recent work of…
The Mannerist Scheme The Mannerist Scheme Călin Dan Being myself involved in institutional culture, I find it difficult to write about Cătălin Bălescu’s artistic work outside the context of his exercise of authority within the…
RECENT PAINTINGS BY CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU: CHARTS OF PURE EMOTION OR MANNERSIM AS A STATE RECENT PAINTINGS BY CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU: CHARTS OF PURE EMOTION OR MANNERSIM AS A STATE CRISTIAN-ROBERT VELESCU The recent images created by Cătălin Bălescu in the intimacy of his Bucharest workshop on…