Intermezzo

2022 — present

Paintings in mixed media on canvas, 150×150 cm — a transitional series between a distilled, controlled stage and an emerging visceral direction. 2022–present.

Intermezzo — Landscape XXV, mixed media on canvas, 150×150 cm. Pale blue sky over a luminous, layered plain — diffuse pastel palette with subtle industrial traces, Adrian Dică.

Intermezzo names a transitional period in my painting: the moment between a more distilled, more controlled stage and a direction that was still unformed.

Artist Statement

Intermezzo names a transitional period in my painting — the moment between a more distilled, more controlled stage and a direction that was still unformed.

The earliest works in the series still hold the quiet and transparency of the previous stage — diffuse horizons, pastel palette, fine, almost restrained gesture. As the series progresses, this quiet begins to give way: the filter thins, the gesture thickens, the image moves closer to a direct kind of painting, unnegotiated with the viewer. Intermezzo follows exactly this process — not a sudden break, but a gradual slide from abstraction toward visceral expression, captured work by work.

Visually, the series functions as a state of transition — it keeps the compositional research structure from earlier series, but begins to push against it, testing how much a controlled image can withstand before giving way to raw, unfiltered gesture.

Painting series, mixed media on canvas, 150×150 cm. 2022–present.