Florica Prevenda

Florica Prevenda

Florica Prevenda
Born 5 April 1959
Dor Mărunt, Romania
Nationality Romanian
Education Iaşi University of Arts
Known for Painting

Florica Prevenda (born April 5, 1959) is a Romanian artist, who lives and works in Bucharest. She studied at Iaşi University of Arts (1980–1984), where she received her B.F.A. in Painting. She was born in an Aromanian family. Her family has suffered the persecutions of the communist regime.[1]

Artistic Style

From the fundamental theme of the Face (The National Art Museum, 1999) until the anonymous multitude of the silhouettes of the Metropolis (The Shadows of the Present, Simeza, 2004), the painter meditates (approaching the face schematically and in series) on the entire magma of emotions and anxieties that haunt the human condition nowadays, evolving towards the depersonalisation of all the nets and towards the consumist reification. This existentialist pithy message is embodied in Florica’s painting exactly in the rind, the leather, the scales, the scars, the imprints and the crust of the tones of white, grey, black and ochre of the wrapping cardboard. Her images do not become simpler from a cycle to another. They become poli-matters reliefs, with cassetons, with the zigzag rhythms of the goffered cardboard, with fields of numbers with schematized eyes and palms, with interweavings and garlands of paper bands or painted cloth. Therefore the artist neither performs in narrative scripts, nor composes after effects of rhetoric of the proper abstract image.[2]

Prevenda composes, or more precisely she lays down visual-tactile matter, like the ashes of her feelings, over simple urban signs of human presence. The processes of growing of the images and of the matters they wear, the densification of the surfaces - symbolically speaking - build for the artist a niche of introspection. It’s a painting of emotional combustion, serious in inventiveness, without falling into the ludic. The technique of the artist produces an extremely rich pictural texture without intentionally recovering the ridiculous. Prevenda manufactures bricolating matters and materials without exalting the poverist non-finite. As the musical form close to her painting seems to be an ample organ tocatta.

Prevenda’s great picto-objectural suites assert, invoking paradoxically exactly the shadow of the human, the withdrawal of the artist from the mundane and the passionate abnegation in the material elaboration of the pictorial body and of its stratified density.[3]

She is now working on a series of man-paintings on the theme "Net People", inspired by the rapid communication via the Internet. "In that series I would me more open to what comes from outside, to social issues and stuff".[4]

Exhibitions

Her works have been presented at different locations in Romania and abroad: Arthus Gallery, Brussels (1999, 2001, 2004; 2011); Muzeul National de Arta / Dept Arta Contemporana Bucharest (1999); Galerie Het Dijkstoelhuis, Wageningen, Holland (2002, 2004); Muzeul Mogosoaia, Romania (2008); Galerie Lamber, Valkenswaard, Holland (2000); FNV Kiem, Amsterdam (2002); M.I.A. “One Woman Show”, Milano, Italy (2007); Galeria Simeza, Bucharest (2004). In Romania, Florica Prevenda is represented by AnnArt Gallery, which is currently hosting her latest exhibition, Facelook (27 March - 30 May 2014).

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References

  1. ↑ Ministerul Justitiei. "Rezistenta Anticomunista". Guvernul Romaniei.
  2. ↑ Aurelia Mocanu (September 2008). "Umbra chipului. Exfolieri şi depuneri". LiterNet.ro.
  3. ↑ Adrian Guta (27 January 2004). "Umbre ale prezentului". Observatorul Cultural.
  4. ↑ Door Theo van der Zalm (2002). "Spiegels van de ziel in het Dijkstoelhuis". de Veluwepost.