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Compared to his Noctumbre or Chiaroscuro series from the previous   or digital print, but also charcoal drawing or photography, the art of Petru
       exhibitions, the more recent series Black Therapy, Cells, Black Shadows,   Lucaci propose to us in this stage a collage, a cocktail from its own previous
       Night Shadows and others put us actually in front of an inquired, prudent   phrases, from which it is coming forth, as a tip of iceberg, a surprising taste
       opening to retrieve color. Again, it is the young, provocative female   of the most tart neo-figurative. Under the influence of that part of the young
       body that appears in the images – increasingly nonchalant, bringing   generation who practice a neo-pop hyperrealism, promoted and encouraged
       temptation, dynamics, energy. Hidden before by the ”black therapy   even by himself as a teacher, Petru Lucaci opens to the photo-pictorial
       ”, obscured by opacity and black layers, the female body rises again,   temptation as a radical form to recover the raw truth of the person and of
       young, triumphant, bringing color and (photo) realism, but also a more   the world that surrounds him and to display it as such. But a somber aura,
       balanced, honest meaning, a meaning finally accepted, sublimated of   a veil of black founder still transform an unfinished battle with the angel,
       the artist relation with his own shadows.                 that will reserve us in the future other amazing surprises...
       Increasingly lighter, sometimes with aurora flares, the present painting                              Magda Cârneci
       of Petru Lucaci exhibits an invigorating effort of self-reinvention. Painting             poet, essayist, and art historian

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