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In art, the black color which really expresses lack of color, the primacy   are constructed the pieces of this monochrome palimpsest. It is also
       of emptiness, the depth of  the unknown, occupies a privileged   a stylistic cocktail personalized with ingredients such as chiaroscuro,
       place among self-colors and it is prime soloist in large polychrome   monochrome, grey theme, shade, funeral dimension of black. The
       works. The present exhibition comes as an extension of an old and   mediums of expression – from painting to drawing, photography
       continuous  personal  fascination  towards  the  expressive  force  and   and object, are brought into a stylistic matrix in order to provide
       significance capacity of black, fascination which was the basis of   coherence to the visual endeavor and in the same time, in order to
       previous artistic projects such as “Genesis” (1988), “Out of Surface”   ensure its diversity.
       (1993), “Noctumbre” (1993-2000).                          The dialogue between these mediums, the transfer on canvas of the
       The Project is a thematic cocktail through the topics discussed on   figurative language using curves and techniques of representation
       the basis of their social, psychological, historical, but also for their   from etching or vice versa, by inserting pictorial elements into
       attractive visual aesthetics: raven, black coat, prison cells, shells,   photography, enhances the visual strength and sophistication offered
       burnt objects, mud, coal are just some of the elements around which   by black. The mixed, the combinations, can be also identified in the

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