Essays

Essays on art, series, documentation, memory and artistic practice by Romanian contemporary painter Adrian Dică.

• I Need a Spade

  A text about SEEDS, about painting leaving the wall and being brought down to ground level, and about the question that has accompanied the series for ten years: what changes when we alter the place from which we look at painting?

• Tick the Box That Says You're Not a Robot

  Trust is shifting from the text to the authority that guarantees it — in art as in AI. Adrian Dică argues that the authority of an artwork rests on lived testimony about the creative act, and names the institutional risk "authority laundering".

• Bohemia Never Dies, It Just Self-Preserves

  Bohemia does not disappear: it self-preserves by strategically retreating from the market into slow time, the unfinished work and the uncalculated gesture. Adrian Dică traces the mechanism from the cave to the algorithm, via Bourdieu and Warhol.

• What Trust in an AI Answer and the Authority of an Artwork Have in Common

  In a culture where texts can be generated instantly, authority is shifting from content toward source, context, and network. Adrian Dică traces this movement across artificial intelligence, artistic provenance, and the role of art.

• Series Over Single Works: A Painter's Case for Process

  Romanian painter Adrian Dică on why series-based practice — from his graduation series to PREAPOCALIPTIC and Seeds — builds clarity, consistency and depth in painting research.

• Every Work Deserves Its Own Archive

  A short essay on why documentation — website, catalogue, digital archive — has become part of the artistic practice itself, not an administrative afterthought.