empresario magazine feature

This May I was featured in a Brazilian magazine, Empresario 2.0, with an interview about my printing and design techniques. I know I'm not the biggest textile artist around but I guess they liked my ideas and what I did with my fabrics. Therefore here is a print of the pages and the article, I have to say I love how my words sound in Brazilian/Portuguese. I'm very grateful and this is my way of showing my appreciation.
You can visit the magazine's website.
Click the image below for the full view.

the blues

I certainly don't have the blues, but blue is one of my favourite colours and so it became the leading actor for these other two textile projects I had to do for my MA this semester. I admit I had much more fun with these two than with the last ones, just because I found them easier to work on, and I came up with making a composition from separate pieces rather than an entire piece. Both shawls are 1 m wide and 2,5 m long. The first one is based on a theme called "The sound of circles", it's a triptych and the technique I used is called textile collage. This technique is also known as fabric applications sewed onto a larger piece of fabric, creating a composition, it's the same technique used in quilting (see my Doll Quilt). The second one is called "Water", and it is my abstract vision upon this element. The technique I used is Batik printing (see tutorial: Vegetal - batik printing tutorial) but I added some details by hand with splashes of textile colour and drawn details with textile markers (you can see those in the detail pictures).
I hope these experiments with fabric are finished with me because I'm sure I'll be sticking with fashion and illustration.

Details

textile-ing

Of course, I would never do this on my own for my own pleasure, therefore this is another school project. I couldn't find any way to enjoy this project, since I didn't find it very challenging. The theme was "whatever you like, just make it big" covered under the pretty name of "construction and deconstruction of shape".

So I made two "ginormous" shawls inspired by things that I like or did in the past. The first one (left) is inspired by some of my old sketches - lines and dots - from my first year of college. The technique is called textile collage or applications on fabric, and I filled those with wadding. I also used wool thread to create shapes and add some graphic touches to the composition. As simple as it may look, it was really hard to squeeze 2.5 x 1.0 m of fabric with wadding into my sewing machine., so it was a sweaty, nerve wrecking and stressful task. And the second one, is a bit more childish, I used pigment dieing (tie die technique), textile collage, thread for rain and wadding for the little whale. The size is the same, 2.5 x 1.0 m.

Amazingly, these were in 3 or 4 exhibitions around the country, unfortunately I don't know the names, I don't have the photos, because we were refused to get any information regarding this subject. And I don't even have them anymore, nor do I expect to have them ever again (the irony).

On that note, let's listen to some music.
Craig Armstrong - Weather Storm

poppy flowers

In the last couple of months I picked up my brushes, acrylics and oil paints and started painting for some commissions. Now, I really don't like painting flowers, I really really don't, I think it's such an overdone subject, that just does not inspire me. But, I had some orders of a poppy flower triptych and so I created something more conceptual. Then someone saw those paintings and wanted a diptych. After that someone saw that and wanted a one piece. And there they are, all of the poppy flowers, I have to say, I painted so many, I think I can paint them with my eyes closed now. Enjoy the invasion of red.

oil on canvas 40x40 cm (each)



acrylic on canvas 21x30 cm (each)



acrylic on canvas 21x30 cm

soon to come

Coming this summer, a new collection.

street delivery - epilogue

At the Street Delivery event that took place on Mercy Street in Timişoara from the 11th of June to the 13th, I was invited by U-man to paint on a car along other three great artists. We called the entire project, The Dacia pimpin' and it survives still, you can see it at the D'arc terrace on Bega's riverside. In the photos below you can see my contribution to the pimping process, but the other sides were covered by mister Jones, Chihiro Streetcat and Chill and you can find the photos of the entire car here. I had loads of fun with them and the feeling as a whole was amazing, the street was breathing art from every pore. I hope we'll get to do more things like this next year too.

Photos belong to Ina Muntean and Zorislav Stojanovic.
Don't forget to click on the photos to enlarge.

art to the core - epilogue

It took me a while to post photos and narrate the epilogue of the event and I know I blame it mostly on the lack of time, so never mind, here they are.
In my opinion, this edition was the most successful out of all the Art to the core editions so far, there was good sunny weather, artistic vibes, people, stickers, painting, crafting, a lot media coverage, loads of photos, laughs and a great after party. So, here are some photos of... well, me... and what I was doing during the event.

Photos belong to:
Ina Muntean
Cătă & Darius
Cătălin Chitucea
Evive
Arabela

You can find lots and lots of pictures from the event on:
U-man
U'man's photo contest
Live Panoramas
Evive.ro
Cătălin Chitucea
Chihiro Streetcat
Gal Darius
... and more links here.

no.23 and costin m. feature

Finally the holidays are here and I have no more schoolwork to do. I'll get to work more on things I really enjoy. Tomorrow is the 17th of June (so that's 17.06, and 17+6 = 23, the number 23) and so I think it will be a really special day.

But in another order of business, I was given a feature and took a nice interview with Costin, I would like to thank him this way for considering me and for the flattering words.
You can read the entire interview HERE, and it's in English, therefore more understandable for everyone.

street delivery

On Saturday you'll find me on Mercy Street, painting on an old car along Jones, Chihiro Streetcat and Chill at the Street Delivery event. Lots of music, theatre, dancing, skating, with U-man Shop, happenings with Cloud Factory, paintings and everything else, so come join us and have an artistic cultural weekend. See you there!

Details and program HERE.

u-man stickers

Here are the fresh stickers I designed for U-man Shop. Dig in!