Wasted

2014 — 2016

Seven oil on canvas paintings exploring abandoned interiors — corridors, rooms and disused industrial spaces. Variable dimensions, 2014–2016.

Wasted — Room 4, oil on canvas, 111×180 cm. Dark corridor receding toward a single arch of light, chiaroscuro composition, Adrian Dică.

Seven paintings made between 2014 and 2016, oil on canvas — corridors, rooms and industrial interiors held in suspension between former use and ruin. The series marks a shift from the street into the interior, and a period of sustained research into perspective as a tool for constructing pictorial space.

Artist Statement

The series grows naturally out of the research into waste and trace — moving from the street into the interior. Where Tomberoane captured waste in public space, Wasted follows it where it should be absent: corridors, hallways, disused industrial rooms, spaces that still hold the structure of a former use but not its presence. The works, made between 2014 and 2016 in variable dimensions, mark a period of intense research into perspective as a tool for constructing pictorial space — successive door frames, corridors receding toward a single vanishing point, light falling from one opening and organizing the entire space.

Memory remains the thread running through the series: not as nostalgia, but as a structure made visible in the object — a decaying wall, a pile left on the floor, a patch of color breaking the monotony of concrete. Waste is no longer the central object, but becomes a secondary trace within a space that has stopped being used, or was never finished. The series does not illustrate a specific story, but a state — that of a space left alone with its own history.

Visually, the series continues the academic study begun in Tomberoane — drawing, form, value, composition — but shifts its research focus toward perspective and spatial depth, keeping chiaroscuro as a constant principle.

2014-2016, Adrian Dica, National University of Arts Bucharest

Works in Series

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