GROTESCA

Mihai Chiuaru is a contemporary artist, born in 1951 in Neamt, Romania. He studied fine arts and monumental painting at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. His works have been exhibited across Europe, United States, Japan and South Africa and reside in numerous museums and private collections. Mihai is a recognizable cultural figure in Romania for his artistic activity and monumental fresque, most notably Horaița Monastery in Neamt, Romania and Saint George Church in Cape Town, South Africa. GROTESCA The same traditional, unorthodox calling related to the ancient meaning of the Byzantine universal aspects is represented by Mihai Chiuaru, known from the end of the 80’s. His monumental art displays the use of elements from the traditional religious painting schools, well represented in the area, yet with an expressionist inclination, already seen as a constant presence in the painting of this particular cultural area. The religious experience guided by fixed repertoires of the iconography discourse and the rigors of the abstract Byzantine space, is filled up with the intensity of presence and with a certain dramatic sensuality which renders a personal character, an actual commitment. Mixed technique on silk paper. Comes from the collection of the municipality of The Hague, The Netherlands.