VIEW IN MY ROOM
Romania
Drawing, Conte on Paper
Size: 13.4 W x 12.2 H x 0 D in
Ships in a Box
Shipping included
14-day satisfaction guarantee
Artist Recognition
Artist featured in a collection
In March 2020 I have started a visual journal, drawing thoughts and feelings in relation to living closer to nature, isolation, my understanding of this strange world as well as to my readings about ecology and permaculture. “Maia Ștefana Oprea combines this unique artistic practice with a bespoke lifestyle, cultivating sustainably and eco the art of living and creating.” (Ana Daniela Sultana, “The eco art of living and creating”, 2020) This drawing is number # 7. CUCUMBER SEEDLING prismacolor on paper, 31 x 34 cm, 29 March, 2020 Every morning I spend a lot of time watering seeds, sprouts, seedlings, vegetables, probably this was the time spent on the means of transportation while we were still living in the city, before moving to the countryside. I identify with these plants which seem to be of infinite kindness, I take care of them, sometimes I neglect my own children to grow them. I stop at a little leaf and I want to draw her, but quickly, because the day is no longer the same. And I remember a passage from Alain de Botton's book The Challenges and Sorrows of Work, in which he tells of a British painter who makes a series of portrait paintings of a tree, eternally the same tree. “He never wanted to paint the work of people, their factories, streets or electronic circuit boards. His attention was drawn to those things that, because we didn't build them, we have to make an exceptional effort of empathy and imagination to understand them, of a natural environment that is completely unpredictable because it is literally impossible to anticipate. . The devotion with which he researches a tree is an attempt to set himself apart and take note of everything that is otherness and beyond us "
Drawing:Conte on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:13.4 W x 12.2 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a box. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:Romania.
Customs:Shipments from Romania may experience delays due to country's regulations for exporting valuable artworks.
Have additional questions?
Please visit our help section or contact us.
Romania
Painting is located in the center of my artistic interests, and through it I investigate concepts of time, memory, absence, waste, decay, violence, identity, subjectivity and vulnerability The purpose behind my latest artwork (painting-graphics, collage, assemblage) is to explore the expressive properties of paint and other materials through physical and poetic processes, following the development of a personal dialogue in between thoughts and colors, emotions and memories, lines and gestures, hesitations and decisions. Desiring to pull the viewer from representation, I like to draw attention to the painting process and to many painterly 'imperfections', which can be clearly visible in the works. My paintings are often built up in layers, during long periods of time, through a process of recording and analysing natural forms, shapes and objects which I make myself, or my own manipulated photographs. These visual sources often resonate with my old drawings and sketches, which are in turn incorporated in the future paintings. The brushwork experiments in the studio and the repetitive structural forms found in my environment become a language of my work. If I were to synthesize in a sole phrase what characterises my interventions, steps, installations and artworks of the media I have experimented so far (photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture), I would say that they are all somewhat self-referential. Self-referential in the sense that my work doesn't demonstrate nor does it present the functioning of structures belonging to the territory of the real. But rather it embraces these structures, interrogates them, in the pursue of a visual expression where reality and imaginary, conscience and unconscious, life and death stop being felt as incompatible. www.maiaoprea.ro/en http://maiastefanaoprea.wordpress.com
Artist featured by Saatchi Art in a collection
Thousands Of Five-Star Reviews
We deliver world-class customer service to all of our art buyers.
Global Selection
Explore an unparalleled artwork selection by artists from around the world.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Our 14-day satisfaction guarantee allows you to buy with confidence.
Support An Artist With Every Purchase
We pay our artists more on every sale than other galleries.
Need More Help?