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MAGDA VACARIU

 

I started taking painting and drawing classes and painting in oil as a small child and later on I studied at Adelaide Central School of Art with some great Australian artists like Chris Orchard or Anna Platten. I lived in Adelaide and Melbourne and exhibited in Sydney. Currently I am living in Brasov.

Painting transports me back into a childlike frame of mind because painting was my chief solace as a child. My work gives voice to the child in each of us and explores the buried domain of some deep, instinctive self. It tells the story of something you inhabit - not something outside you, from which you cannot stand apart.

It is all about time and memory. Memory becomes the substitute of reality, it creates a new reality which is more real than the reality. Memory is what confers us real existence. Memory keeps only what is characteristic, striking and essential in the object, memory is the reservoir of preserving the essence.

Memory is inseparable of time. Time changes places and people inevitably, but does not alter the images we have retained of them. These images become true reality in our life.

Particular places can be seen as stores of memories, as archives of the particular instances that help to determine us as singular selves.

 

Am inceput sa studiez pictura si desenul si sa pictez in ulei de mic copil. Dupa ce am emigrat in Australia am studiat pictura si fotografia la Adelaide Central School of Art, o facultate de arta recunoscuta pentru studiul practic riguros sub ghidarea numai de catre artisti profesionisti australieni de prima mana, cum ar fi Christopher Orchard sau Anna Platten. Am trait in Adelaide si Melbourne si am expus in Sydney. Intoarsa in tara din 2008 lucrez arta figurativa si portrete la comanda si predau pictura si desen la Centrul Cultural Reduta Brasov.