83. Still Life with Shell and Pipe [2008]

"At first glance, Coltofeanu is a well-mannered studio artist, for all the tradition of easel painting with its specific repertoire: landscape, still life, portrait, compositions, etc. Our adventure as unprepared viewers begins in the guise of classical-Renaissance convention and visual memory and stereotypes. In Dorin Coltofeanu's world, existence ceases to be based on matter, it becomes effigy, spirit and eternal aura. From this point of view, the reading of Dorin Coltofeanu's world, a mystical world becomes possible and makes our inner reality visible." (Pavel Șușară, excerpt from the argument at the artist's solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of Moldova)

Dimensions

width 80 cm, height 80 cm, custom 80 × 80 cm

Description

oil on canvas, signed bottom left, with pink, "Coltofeanu"

Research information

The artwork is reproduced in the album "Dorin Coltofeanu", Nemira Publishing House, Bucharest, 2011, at p. 58, under the title "Natură statică" ("Still Life").

Dating

2008

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