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CATALIN [CATALIN GUGUIANU]

Lives and works in Paris, France
www.catalin-art.com

POINT DE VUE
For all of my art projects, I have a generic term: «thelittlesubjects”, subjects visitors to the borders of infinity. A singular work to the honor of a place
inspired by the immediate reality of the everyday. I confess, well, my and a metaphor for the quest of the imperceptible, the unimaginable, the
confidence lies is in the power of discretion. incomprehensible. All parts of the system are organized in order to get
All my projects, “M”, “OCUPAT”, “3èsARTS”, “CrêpusculeVILLE”, “CFP”, further artistic expression, and I do not separate the aesthetics from the
“L’Echalier – PÎRLEAZU”, “meetiquesMERCATOS”, “veloLINGA” have taken practical and conceptual. I despise the dogma of pure abstraction, which
form over time. Welcome to Logo land! It is now accepted that we are does not aim to maintain a link with reality, I change abstract forms freely,
all “logotomized”! As in Aikido, I try to divert the force of publicity (to my in a playful spirit in which values float sovereignty and lightly above the
advantage). Categorically, I do nothing. I do not force things. I keep my canvas, it does not hide itself, a sensual abstract, which transforms the
eyes open to the world and try to be engaged with it. Everything is usable: canvas space into a weightless world to grasp all the trips of mind and body.
the small ladder, key chains, paper “raisin format,” the everyday “I can’t In this adventure, I have had several people involved, a complex business,
wait for Sunday,” the dating site “Meetic”, “Velib”, the daily subtle air. It is and hundreds of small successive decisions – art is a world, not in the sense
the art of “doing nothing” which makes me lighter and more determined, a of “the art world”, but a social process, which brings people together in a
state of mind, which I feel very close to. Combining fantasy and reality is an complex way in order to achieve something. Perseverance is always, for
important focus of my work, which aims also to engage the viewer physically me, the supreme support.(splint)
so that meaning can emerge. “Stepping over the stairs” (a Romanian phrase Of course, I would like also to emphasize a moment of the alter-modern
which means ‘to have a nerve’), is placed on a worship space, religious era in which I belong to, where artists roam through an art that explores
decoration becomes the only plausible alternative, the only way to exit all directions of time and space and all dimensions, a path that transforms
the social highway. A kind of initiating journey, if not spiritual, which takes itself into knowledge and production.

SELFIE TO PANAME, 2014 POLITIQUE INSTALLATION AND MONTAGE 49X188 IN. | 125X480 CM.
COMPOSED OF 20 ELEMENTS OF GRAPHICS, PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND OBJECT.
DETAILS: MIXED MEDIA, PAPER, INK, WALNUT COLOR STAIN, FELT, PENCIL, POLISH
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