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COSTIN BRĂTEANU

VISUAL ARTIST • CURATOR

The Poetic of Light

„Costin Brăteanu is offering the audience, through art work, a special kind of the painting discourse,
technique, poetics. He covers through color compositions that are structured in a light way, by using
the scholarly chosen counterpoint between space and matter, between solid and dissolute.

The thematic series are oscillating between full and empty, opening an ample creative territory situa-
ted in the proximity of the landscape symbolism. Fields overwhelmed by the unperceivable presence of
the painting fluid, on the search for the sublime balance between heaven and earth, crepuscular hori-
zons, light garlands which slightly hit the vegetal meat, coagulating in the polychrome horse ride, filled
with forgotten symbols, the shadows of the suave becoming, the circular arc up in the sky during the
storm evoke a bold, trepidating and also unrepeatable aerated conceptual construct. Costin has pro-
ved to be through each cycle of the painting artwork to be the absolute creator of the personal credo,
escaping daringly into the suave trance of the comtemplative metaphysics. His artwork, through each
painting, thus becomes a portal window towards the magnificent territories of the imaginary, an infini-
te heavenly kaleidoscope, situated beyond the horizon, beyond the sky, in the elysean fields, where the
color becomes light.

A mature artist, a painter whose technique is slightly touching, in addition to the landscape, the syn-
cretic compositions, he modulates a vast palimpsest which adds to the collage the relief paste tech-
nique, the combinatorics of the frottage, fully making use of the heritage of the tradition of Romanian
embroidery, going through in appropiate dosage the archetypal geometry of the embroidered traditi-
onal shirt, sheepskin coat, he is building an art discourse in which the compositions are articulating in
a compact manner, and the visionary architecture is making room for floating through an engrossing
catharhic abandonment. Costin Brăteanu has become through his presence as an artist a remarkable
voice in the city on Bega who is gathering to himself through his own creative reverberation visionary
ease, inviting for the festive excursus on the wings of the dream burg.

Thus behold us around an epiphenomenon which still has to say a lot in the national and international
millieu, inciting, provoking and enthusiastic, polarizes around it countless exhibitions, colloquiums,
series of international camps which fully demonstrate vigorousness, enthusiasm and professionalism.“

Dr. Kelemen Gabriel 2017