Posted by: claudiu-ciobanu

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Romanian artist Claudiu Ciobanu creates a whole series of paintings. In 2008, for example, he made five paintings all showing a car in different contexts sorted under the title “Pink Noise”. Another series of the same year called “Diary for a day: trip to heaven” illustrates common gestures and activities of people in private situations. With his serial paintings Claudiu Ciobanu approaches one particular topic from more than one perspective. The more options there are the more likely it becomes for the viewer to identify with at least one of the illustrations.

Instead of constructing sophisticated stories Claudiu Ciobanu focuses on trivia of every-day life. While a city is often associated with a large population, extreme noise and dirt, Ciobanu’s paintings referring to urban space do not show any of that. The noisy engines of the cars have been turned off and most of the people have disappeared from the streets.

Ciobanu studies the differing atmosphere of a city from day to night and from private space to public space. The electrical devices such as washing machines, cars, or mobile phones that are often pictured in his paintings point to the influence of technological changes on our way of communication and mobility.

There is neither criticism nor glorification transmitted in the paintings. The image, however, is a subjective one since it is illustrated as observed by the artist, more than as a statement it can be read as a documentary on urban life from a different point of view.


Source: http://www.c-collection.org/index.php?show=385

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