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TRANSFIGURED BLACK COCKTAIL
Important name for the 80’s generation of painters, Petru Lucaci surprised with what other explorers of the „chromatic vacuum”, like the frenchman
us in the past 13 years with his dramatic turn, apparently total and definitive, Pierre Soulages or the americans Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman and Brice
from a strong neo-expressionism, colorful and vital, to an exercise of Marden sought to find in the cathartic virtuosities and metaphysical
monochromatic asceticism built around the idea of black. Black ink, black potentialities of the „black mystic”, in the last half of the Twentieth century.
smoke, but especially black coal, to roast all colors in their seeming opposite An agile spirit, tempted by intelligentsia (with a PhD exactly in the issue
was for the artist a radical and in the same time wrapped manner to confess of black in modern painting), Petru Lucaci manifests for several years
an interior labor not without sensuous temptations and pitfalls, falls and a self-confessed interest for the latest techniques and conceptual
sublimations of the epicurean, going to the limit of indefinable, inexpressible. approaches, coming from the area of photography, , video and digital.
Through his psycho-analizable obsession for black, gestural-retractable But the attraction to extra-aesthetic challenges and to new uninhibited
black, black of the indigo mental storms and of the obscure spiritual sensibility of the new generations have not alienated him all from his
swirls, Petru Lucaci becomes a singular voice in modern and contemporary favorite area of exploration into the mysterious twist and turns and into
Romanian art, although his approach is in harmony, as I wrote elsewhere, endless fields of the tutelary black.

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