About Cezar Ungureanu
A graduate of the George Enescu Academy of Arts in Iaşi, Romania, visual artist Cezar Ungureanu, active in neo-surrealist and re-constructivist painting, has also developed his artistic skills in the fresco and tempera techniques specific to monumental and mural painting, attending postgraduate courses organised by the Romanian Patriarchy's Religious Painting Committee.
The artist has already produced works in several churches in Romania and abroad, as well as a large number of oil and acrylic painting, and neo-Byzantine style religious paintings using the fresco technique, in tempera and acrylic paint.
In his paintings, which subscribe to the Neo-surrealism current, he aim at establishing as a leitmotif the idea of syncretism, not in an interdisciplinary artistic way, but as a combination of ideas and compositional elements, which are inadvertent and even antagonistic. My works are characterized by joinder of heterogenous ideas, different even in antithesis, as a combination of the real and the imaginary, the surreal and the abstract, the modern and the archaic, the artistic and the unaesthetic, the inner and the outer. They are a combination of gravity and anti-gravity, a mixture of aerial and earth, telluric and cosmical elements, a mixture between degrading and opulent, luxuriant, typically undifferentiated to ancestral developing forms - in short, another semantic meaning of the syncretism.
Some ideas or elements of the compositional space have a rational explication, some other a paralogical or irrational one and, at the end, some are related to the oneiric field, which is representative for the Surrealism or Neo-surrealism. There are shades which flow gravitationally and anti-gravitationally, shades applied in the aerial, underwater and celestial landscape, which create the illusion of a papier-mâché decor. In addition, the classic or modern “trompe l’oeil” effect is customary in most of my works and it created the illusion of a 3D image.
