Artworks by Florina Breazu

Florina Breazu is one of the best art critics in Romania and beyond. His pictorial qualities do not continue, as at first glance one might think, theorizing and fitting into a pattern of thought of creation. On the contrary, freedom and expansion in space, the conquest of the simesis and the gaze through a discourse unleashed by rhetoric invite you to see an artist at the most radiant point of creation. The light that Florina wants to bring is the Light of our universe, a universe that she builds with every touch.

The artist seems to ask us what we would do if we had the opportunity to go out somewhere outside our space, traveling through the cosmos. How would we see ourselves – human beings, how would we see the particles around us, how would we see nature? Florina has the imagination, the creativity and the feeling to get out of herself and be able to dig into these canvases, building us a universe that can be both the inner one and the one we see through the invisible of the brushstrokes, through each layer that she sometimes skins to the essence, to enter what the light in the painting actually means.

In certain works he seems to recompose the map of a mental landscape, delimiting the qualities of the internalized consciousness, with autonomy and vigor. Through light and texture, the artist exposes a meditation on the fact that, ultimately, the entire organism of painting and of life alike is based on the concepts of development, growth, repetition.

The problematic of space, matter, memory is harmonized by the dialogue between background and form, by the chromatic contrasts that allow the subtraction from the support and the reservation of the concept in the previous layer. That is why among the brushstrokes we notice a writing, a textural alchemy that builds the form from the apparent counter-forms, through islands of color concerted in the agglomeration of the paste. The intrinsic lyricism of multi-verse contains and encapsulates pre-structures, thoughts, sensations. There is a great discipline in the approach to color; each work has a dominant color in the foreground and background, with only a few neutral or related brushes used as accents. The effect of the paste on its shapes results in a truly ethereal light that shines on the stand. Under this "matter" facet, the viewer can observe topographies, maps that take shape and fully preserve the traces of a possible world. 

Florina demonstrates that being a painter means ignoring the possibility of comparing what is seen with objects in nature, and visual relationships are built through personal codifications, through the forms of projection of feeling. The artworks not only retrospectively bring together the artist's consistent preoccupations with the substance that composes art, the human being and the universe at the same time, being more than a display of ideas, desires, knowledge and feelings. Florina invites us all on a path on which every moment sprinkled is unique, irreplaceable in her destiny, through the signs of the thoughts of forgotten places that are nourished and reborn from the revitalized pulsation of a deeply personal and at the same time universal human discourse through the values it imprints. Art historian and art critic Maria Bilashevschi