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Fig. 5910 October 2026Costin Brăteanu – StratigraphiesI came into contact with the artwork of Costin Brăteanu recently, and while analysing his portfolio, I got the impression of looking at an artistically represented geography. Going further through the artist’s strata, I remembered the concept of palimpsest, which could better describe what I was trying to understand. palimpsest is a manuscript page, parchment, […]Grid of dark cells with pink and white forms, work by Roxana Donaldson4 October 2026Roxana Donaldson – Fertile Knots in „A Feminine Archive of Fear”Roxana Donaldson's exhibition explores fear's feminine legacy through evolving installations, intertwining personal narratives with broader social dynamics.Quentin Hubert, Ἀθηνᾶ, The Shadow of Minerva, painting24 July 2026Quentin Hubert – Being vs. Having exhibitionBefore diving further into the article, the recommendation is to check the artist Instagram hyperlinked below and read the captions of the paintings, as they provide the best insight into the artist vision and philosophy. Quentin uses a unique technique of hydrophobic means and acrylic paint to create his artwork. He comes from a vast […]Portrait of Gheorghe Magheru by Diana Zamfir, standing with a sabre in front of a traditional house18 July 2026Gheorghe Magheru – A man among menDiana Zamfir (Marinescu) creates a representation of Gheorghe Magheru that combines the specific symbolical aspects with her own artistic vision.The Woman as Cosmos, dreaming and weaving in archaic Romanian culture28 June 2026The Woman as Cosmos: Dreaming and Weaving in Archaic Romanian CultureThis article proposes a reading of the Romanian traditional blouse, ia, not as an ethnographic object or national identity symbol, but as a material archive of an archaic form of feminine knowledge that operates outside the diurnal, rational order and that has been systematically misread as superstition or social segregation.Roberto Diaz, Arte del Caos2 May 2026Roberto Diaz – Schism of Form and MeaningRoberto Diaz calls his practice “Arte del Caos.” The name is honest. Trained at the Design Academy and working with pencil, acrylic, and digital painting, he builds images at the precise point where the sacred and the anatomical meet and refuses to separate. The surface seduces first. His palette pulls from the Old Masters, burnished […]Roxana Donaldson, Pathology as an Affective Cartography15 December 2025Roxana Donaldson – Pathology as an Affective CartographyPathology, derived from pathos and logos, becomes a way of articulating those zones where affect exceeds regulation, where emotion resists instrumentalization.Diana Marinescu, painting25 October 2025Diana Marinescu – From Gesture to Grace: The Poetics of the EverydayIn the landscape of contemporary Romanian art, Diana Marinescu stands out through a visual language that combines restraint and emotion, intimacy and heritage. Her practice does not chase novelty for its own sake, rather, it turns toward the slow rhythms of remembering, inviting viewers to rediscover the poetry of the everyday. Her painting is not […]Silent Still, Zoë Sua Kay, painting of a pink veined leaf7 November 2024Zoë Sua Kay curated by Andrei Fășie, Silent Still exhibitionA Fragile Eternity Silent Still is a meditation on the delicate tension between creation and destruction, stillness and turmoil. Through the fluidity of resin, which is the main subject of the exhibition —both a preserver and betrayer of nature—the works evoke an elemental quiet, yet beneath the surface lies a haunting, inevitable disquiet. With microscopic […]