Daniela Vîrlan
b. 1987, Bucharest
Daniela Vîrlan
Daniela primarily works with oil on canvas, watercolor, and ink on paper. By incorporating elements from reality or symbols from the universal human consciousness, the artist establishes synergistic, symbiotic, or antagonistic relationships. These elements are engaged in continuous interaction with one another, generating a distinctive symbolic dynamism. The seemingly spontaneous forms, with references to elaborate realities, reveal a continuous unpredictability, a flux of surprising associations and juxtapositions: angels, birds, Madonnas, monsters, and figures caught in a Brownian motion.
I am concerned with pictorial space, particularly the suggestion of reality through figurative representation, combined with the perspective of the imaginary and the miraculous.
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She has participated in numerous group exhibitions and events such as the Romanian Graphics Salon in 2021 and 2022, Art Safari, Weekendul Galeriilor, Noaptea Albă a Galeriilor, Bucharest Art Week, FRISS 2011 Budapest, among others. Her solo exhibitions include "Arcana Majora" at 1001 Arte, Bucharest in 2020; "A World in the Mirror of Water" at AlertStudio in 2019; and "Amor Fati" at Galeria IX, Bucharest in 2014.
Daniela primarily works with oil on canvas, watercolor, and ink on paper. Drawing inspiration from reality and symbols from the universal human consciousness, the artist creates synergistic, symbiotic, or antagonistic relationships. These elements interact with one another, generating a unique symbolic dynamism. The seemingly spontaneous forms, intertwined with elaborate realities, reveal a continuous unpredictability, a flow of surprising associations and juxtapositions: angels, birds, Madonnas, monsters, and (un)figured entities caught in a Brownian motion.
