- PORTRAITS 2

PORTRAIT 003, acrylic on canvas, 100x70 cm

- Artistic activities

- 1989 personal exhibition - Pitesti

- 1991 personal exhibition - Pitesti Metopa Gallery

- 1992 personal exhibition - Bucuresti

- 1992 personal exhibition - Sibiu

- 1996 personal exhibition - Avanpost Gallery Bucuresti

- 1998 personal exhibition - Art Gallery Timisoara

- 1999 personal exhibition - The Romanian Parliament Bucuresti

- 1999 personal exhibition - Turkish Romanian Bank Pitesti

- 2001 personal exhibition - The Romanian Parliament Bucuresti

- 2003 personal exhibition - The Constantin Brâncoveanu

University Pitesti

- 2005 personal exhibition - Arta Gallery Câmpulung

- 2006 personal exhibition - The Arges County Museum Pitesti

- 2007 participant at the painting/graphics contest

,,Contrapunct Biblie Art'' Lutheran Church Cisnadie

- 2007 personal exhibition - Art VO Gallery Sibiu. The event is

part of the Sibiu European Capital of Culture 2007 Project.

- 2007 Participant at the group exhibition, 2007 Art VO Review"

the exhibition hall of the Max Restaurant Sibiu.

- 2008 Participant at the group exhibition ,, Improvisations" Art

Cafe, Sibiu. The event is part of the NART Festival 2008,

Sibiu.

- 2008 personal exhibition - Art VO Gallery Sibiu

-2011  personal exhibition – Transilvania Art Gallery –Brasov

-2012  personal exhibition – Casino Sinaia – Regal Gallery

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- 1990 PARIS The Independents' Hall

- 1992 AUGSBURG, Germany - Personal exhibition

- 2004 PARIS The Romanian Cultural Institute - Personal

exhibition

- 2010 WIEN – The Gallery Steiner  - personal exhibition

- 2009 SALZBURG - Bashimi Art House - Group exhibition

- 2010 HAMBURG – Marziart Internazionale Galerie - Group exhibition

- 2010 OSTERGADE DENMARK – Gallery Sigvardson - Group exhibition

- 2010 LONDON – The Brick Lane gallery - Group exhibition

- 2008 Second Prize The Painting Contest „Dreamland

Transsylvania", organized by the Lutheran Church Cisnadie.

Works in private collections: Romania, Germany, France, USA,

Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Canada, Bolivia, Austria

 

STATMENT

My art bears no epic motifs insofar as all ontological displays of instances are mere illusions in my opinion. Only the settlements by their oracular purpose and the core embodiments of objects and human beings entail abysmal movements and life. So much the better figuratively assuming that from these embodiments a jester emerges who performs or clumsily juggles with a spoon! However, this overrides the painter’s intent. This occured likewise in regards to the portraits that I have lately been painting. They come solely from within.
I paint revelations and neither of them resembles another. Therefore, I have finally redeemed myself from the obsession of collapsing into Mannerism.
Apart from this, what abides is the joy that I have released myself from the genetic message.

Wittgenstein said that you should keep silent if you have nothing to say. This is what Sorin Dumitrescu Mihaiesti does in his painting. He keeps silent. Not because he has nothing to say, but because the subject of his painting is not to be told, but to be shown. For our artist, the last consequence of his art is the color and this is why he obsessively shows this thing in all his work. It is not about the color as a simple code material but about the color representing in significant the chromatic tension of a vision, reason for which every of his paintings represents a fragment of his personal pictorial oration. An oration about something which cannot be told, but also shown.

Consequently, Sorin Dumitrescu Mihaiesti’s paintings are nothing else but colored silences. Their significance must be looked for in what they “show”, not in what they “tell”.

Marius Craciunescu

Since I have known him (and it’s almost a quarter of century since then), since I have followed his evolution, I continue to ask myself with a kind a profane naivety if Sorin Dumitrescu Mihaiesti could paint a hand in a figurative way. No, he can’t. But this is not because of his incapacity, but because he is different from other painters. He possessed the genius of the color since his birth and he is not able to paint less than ten hands at a time. He can only paint enormously. He is abusive in his message because in every moment he wants to say too much and this is hard for us to stand. The fault is ours, all of us who have enough time to carefully watch his works. He has been able to find out that if you call the colors by their names they get joints. It is in these joints that they are combined. This is how Sorin Dumitrescu Mihaiesti paints stained glass, children, domes, women, textures, landscapes. Yet he paints them from within the color, where everything is plasmatic, ingenuous, magmatic, and placental. That is why, from each of his painting there follows the beginning. It is a sort of continuous improvement for the World, the World before genesis. From this point of view, the art of Sorin Dumitrescu Mihaiesti represents an ethic attitude: the ethic of the man who helps God not to do wrong.

Ciprian Chirvasiu

 Sorin Dumitrescu Mihaiesti (born in 1961) is a representative painter for the evolution of the Romanian fine arts of the last quarter of century. At first, placed under the sign of the figuration, his painting suffered the specific shifting of the present day art towards non-figuratism, to a sui generis geometrism. It’s not the matter of a shallow geometrism, but a fanciful one, bathed in spectacular chromatic reverberations. But beyond the idea of figurative or non-figurative, his painting is characterized by an out of common feeling for color and an exacerbated sensibility which distinguishes him from the other artists.

Even if in his painting there is a temptation towards a certain decorum, the chromatic solution with its richness of groups, bold juxtapositions and unusual contrasts, now striking, now silent – is the one which dominates. For Sorin Dumitrescu Mihaiesti, the color is the correspondent of his mood; it is an ultra sensitive seismograph which readily answers his mood – sometimes euphoric, sometimes melancholic.

Mariana Senila Vasiliu – Critic of art