Portrait

In general I am attracted to the plastic deconstruction of the figurative through pictorial gestures. During the pictorial process I propose to overtake the plastic emotion which confines to chromatic harmony and contrast and I am also interested in organizing the composition through a vectorial system; in balancing or stimulating the composition.
The matter’s utopia of these works comes from urban and social environment, as an impression through which human being feels himself small and fragile as compared to social materialism.
The matter represents for me structure, texture, rugged surfaces, matte and glossy, but also volume, being thus an intention that requires a way out of the pictorial two-dimension.
The diversity of objects found in the industrial and advertising area are taken so that they could change their usefulness and discover another sense, other than the one they had as functionality before being processed; in this way the already manufactured become a source of the plastic processing.

Dan Maciuca

Vita

1979	born in Romania
2002-06	Bachelor of Arts & Master degrees in painting, University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca / RO
2008	Ongoing PhD research, Cultural Interferences, University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca / RO

Currently lives and works in Cluj-Napoca / RO

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016	Utopian Proximity, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art / GB
2014	Colliding Geometry, Zorzini gallery. Bucharest / RO
2012	Nothing To Hide, Bazis Platform, Cluj / RO
2011	Common Place, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest / RO
2009	Post Romantic. Post Atomic. Post Rock. Post Socialist Realism., Laika gallery, Bucharest / RO
2006	Critical Temperature, Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca / RO

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015	painting-cluj, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne / D
2014	The Flesh Of Things, Un-Painting The Romantics, Jecza Gallery, Timisoara / RO
	Hidden Field, Bazis Platform, Pescara / I
2013	MUTATIONS, BAZIS contemporary art space, Berlin / D
	HOTSPOT CLUJ – NEW ROMANIAN ART, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj / DN
2012	Cluj meets Berlin, BAZIS contemporary art space, Berlin / D
	Modern Talking, Art Museum, Cluj- Napoca / RO
2011	The First Ten Years – Radio Galleries, Art Museum, Cluj- Napoca / RO
2010	Unusual suspects, Ivan gallery, Bucharest / RO