Roads Nowhere no.1 - 2019, oil on canvas, 40x40 cm

Roads Nowhere no.2 - 2019, oil in canvas, 40x40 cm

Speak Memory Speak, 2019, 12 paintings oil on canvas installation

Yamuk-Yamuk goes Solo - 2019,
(inspired by Urszula Gogol)

 gouache, acrylic paint and collage on canvas, 64x55cm

Upcoming events august-september 2019

Smmer 2019

Juno’s Lark Slumber - 2019

176x148cm, oil painting and collage on canvas

Stay This Way - 2019

oil on linen, 65x54cm

On thin Ice - 2019

oil on linen, 65x54cm

oil on canvas 2019, 51x46cm

Once in a Blue Moon - 2019

oil on canvas, 100x80cm

(working title) - Tectonic Plates and Free Buffet - 2019

oil on canvas, 65x54cm

        


         I see my work as a conversation with Painting through the daily practice of painting.

         Hard facts, Real Life, Societal strife, Melodramatic ExistenZ, doubts, fears or joys, all build up in my work as enigmatic oil colored objects. Presences, perpetually replacing illusion with new Illusions.

         I do not consider my work abstract, since I work from images, I tell stories, and there is always a narrative content.

         Images found or appropriated, are codified, modified, fragmented, distorted and transformed, until a story takes form, a Pathos emerges.

         I play with expectations.

         My bag of tricks is a bric-a-brac of painting techniques and visual devices: paint applied with brush or knife flattened and crushed into the picture plane as if  printed, oil paint or acrylic, both techniques at the same time, paint applied with rags, scraped or rubbed into the surface move back and forth on the two sides of a mirror, sharply cut edges the use of masking tape, colors are tripping, shapes degenerate, the work is taking place.

          I scrape off, I sand down the surface; an archaeological process in reverse gradually unveiling a far more singular form than the initial doodle.
  
RT2019

Je vois mon travail comme une conversation avec la Peinture à travers la pratique quotidienne de la peinture.

Les faits concrets, la vie réelle, les luttes sociétales, le mélodrame de tous les jours, les doutes, les peurs ou les joies s'accumulent dans mon travail par couches successives d’énigmatiques objets colorées, Présences remplaçant perpétuellement des illusions par de nouvelles illusions.

Je ne considère pas mon travail comme étant de l'art abstrait, car je travaille a partir d'images, je raconte des histoires, et il y a toujours un contenu narratif.

Les images trouvées ou appropriées sont codifiées, modifiées, fragmentées, déformées et transformées, jusqu'à ce qu'une histoire se détache et un Pathos prend forme.

Je joue avec les attentes.

Dans mon «bag of tricks» on trouve un bric-à-brac de techniques de peinture et de dispositifs visuels: peinture appliquée au pinceau, au couteau de palette, aplatie et écrasée dans le plan comme si elle était imprimée, de la peinture à l'huile et acrylique, voir les deux techniques en même temps.

La peinture est appliquée avec des chiffons, délimitée avec des bandes de masquage ou des pochoirs, grattée ou frictionnée au cœur même de la surface afin qu'elle puisse se déplacer dans les deux sens, en profondeur, floutée, ou en plan sur les bords coupants et tranchants des contours (hard-edge). 

Je gratte, je ponce la surface. C'est un processus archéologique à rebours qui dévoile progressivement une forme nettement plus singulière que le griffonnage initial.

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Commendatore Buuuuuh - 2019

54x46cm, oil on canvas and panel

White is Black - 2019

oil on canvas, 125x105cm

With World on Shoulder No.2 - 2019
oil and collage on canvas, 116x89cm

C.C.B. - 2019

oil on canvas 65x54cm

Wallness Two - 2019

oil on canvas 160 x 130 cm

Selection of small work on paper, 2014 - 2019

Backseat Seamstress 2019

oil on canvas 145x114cm

Rocket Man, 2019

oil on canvas 145x114cm

Eros Selavy, 2019

145x114cm

Solstice Meltdowns, 2019

oil on canvas 65x54cm

Working Title Frozen Stiff, 2018, oil on canvas 160x130cm

Stealth on Confort Zone, 2019, oil on canvas 90x70cm

Radu Tuian

”In 1979, as a migrant, I experienced first hand and in this order: the Loss of an Original Cultural Environment, Statelessness, Refugee Status, the Immigration Process, the Legal Alien status, Green Card Holder status, and eventually after seven years, Naturalization as an American Citizen. This personal experience of migration became a catalyst and eventually the fundamental subject matter of my work: as a Sculptor (3dimmensional pieces mixing vintage photographs and other mixed media 1980’s) as a Photographer (urban archeology photography) and as a Painter (the Amalgamated series and my recent body of work)” RT 2014

“I am a city dweller; I was born in the capital city of Bucharest in Romania, then I became a New-Yorker, and for the last 25 years have been a Parisian living in France. In my paintings an urban environment is allays present, a form of alienation transpires. Architecture and Design interact with Organic, Natural Shapes. Big City Verticality is the standard format in all my paintings, vertical formats, vertical structures, grids or linear designs. Once the limitations of a format is accepted, there is infinite freedom in it, like life on earth itself. I practice a form of Narrative Abstraction, a cluster of “things” and ideas that build up layer upon layer to densify and generate a dinamic image, a story, an impulse populating my Painting Territory.” RT 2014

“I work from drawings and images, found or taken, from my databank, trans-local images. I edit and drive the legibility of the initial sign to the boundary of abstraction using image treatment algorithms. Thus by fragmenting, layering and juxtaposing these bits of a culturally dismembered world, I generate new semantic possibilities, new visual articulations, within the familiar language of painting (for me it is Surrealism, Cubism, Tashisme and Bauhaus Design among other). In my studio, I work directly from, or inspired by my digital experiments, exploring the phisicality of larger canvases, painting with oil, dry pigments, textures and collage. I woud like the making of the painting to show as little as possible, be a self evident fact in the end." RT 2019

studio feb 2019

Paintings feb 2019 acrylic canvas 60 cn height

Painting 2018 (oil on canvas)