Grotesca

Mihai Chiuaru is a contemporary artist, born in 1951 in Neamt, Romania. He studied fine arts and monumental painting at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. His works have been exhibited across Europe, United States, Japan and South Africa and reside in numerous museums and private collections. Mihai is a recognizable cultural figure in Romania for his artistic activity and monumental fresque, most notably Horaița Monastery in Neamt, Romania and Saint George Church in Cape Town, South Africa. CAPRICIU From the props of Byzantine figuration, Mihai Chiuaru takes the polyptych, adapting it to the demands of a fragmentary writing that allows him to multiply - at will - scenes, characters and motifs. Some of the works reveal a capricious artist. Striking chromatically and deliberately tense in their own formal organisations, his Capricii have a neurotic, visceral appearance, somewhat reiterating the rhetoric of neo-expressionism gesture from the 70s. Comes from the collection of the municipality of The Hague, The Netherlands.