”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
