52. Garden (Beauty Will Redeem the World) [1994]

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52. Garden (Beauty Will Redeem the World) [1994]

Horia Bernea

1938, Bucureşti - 2000, Paris

Estimate:

EUR 25.000 - 35.000

Sold

EUR 24.000

References

"Horia Bernea", National Art Museum of Romania. Department of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, 1997. The monograph "Horia Bernea", Noi Media Print Publishing House, 2008. "Școala de la Poiana Mărului" ("Poiana Mărului School"), Publishing House of the Art Museum Brașov, 2013.

oil on canvas, 195 x 161.5 cm, 195 Ã 161,5 cm, signed and dated bottom right, in red, "Bernea, 10.(19)94"; noted left side, in red, "Frumuseţea va mântui lumea" (Beauty Will Redeem the World).

Having the artist's belief that "Beauty Will Redeem the World" imprinted, the present work makes its breakthrough in front of the observer as a "modus vivendi" ready to be decoded. Bernea's modernity is revealed to us especially in his capacity to encode the symbol even in the most commonplace motifs. The artist's painting, deeply organic and of a vital accomplishment, embeds the floral-vegetable motif, transposing it into art. Bernea's brush strokes are incisive metaphors, reaching the depths of the canvas. However, one can find the "essential uncertainty", as well as mystery - an element of knowledge - which the artist has used so many times in order to express the unitary natural in his canvases. His work transcends further from appearance, having a spiritual character and raising conscience-related issues. His painting style is immersive, inviting the observer to come closer to the image depicted on canvas, be it abstract or figurative.

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