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Alina Rotaru

ABOUT

I was born in Romania and after obtaining my PhD in contemporary literature in 2016 at the University of Bucharest, I decided to settle in France. I started painting out of passion but very early on I realized that I had found something that gave my mind and imagination unparalleled freedom. I started to work more and more and without realizing it, painting became something natural, a constant activity, an inseparable part of my life. Over time, I developed my own style and my own techniques by experimenting with acrylic, pencils, ink, plastic and with multiple surfaces such as canvas, paper and cardboard.

    My art

    I like to imagine and create new shapes, modify volumes by adding or removing material. Thus, I spend my time scraping paint or building up layer after layer, giving texture to my canvases. Sometimes I want to leave a trail of what I've done before, some proof or indication of what's hidden underneath. Similar to the relics discovered at an archaeological site giving information about the past, I keep some fragments of what would have been a possible painting. I also have the desire to transform something ordinary or unusable, without apparent meaning, into something beautiful and multidimensional by using cardboard assemblies, patterns, lines or geometric elements. My work often tends to abolish the boundaries between painting and sculpture, between image and object. This ambiguity leads to an absence of constraint because it allows me to imagine all kinds of irregular shapes, contours whose lines intertwine.


    My art is a combination of abstract and figurative, where one can easily recognize familiar shapes, fragmented or whole objects, vegetal, anthropomorphic motifs, footprints. At the same time each painting envisages a world in itself. Instead of representing a landscape, I prefer to create one.


    I love all colors and even before being a painter I was able to understand the world around me much better through images. I cannot conceive art through a limited palette. Orange, red and yellow are present in my paintings because they bring light and energy, joy and power, but at the same time I am not afraid of dull mixtures or dark colors which give depth to the canvas.

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