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Nicolae Comanescu
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“How many grains of sand there are in the Universe?” This was the cliché question of the science TV programs used in order to familiarize us (sic!) with the infinite. Well, Nicolae Comanescu counted them and the result is equal with 25 paintings which display either good American movies or aberrant beaches that only the sick euphoric imagination can construct. The 17th century galleons on the background are inhabited by pirates with hats smelling like wet-and-salty wood who have a conversation with the ignorant and inodorous blondes suffering of anosmia.
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Samba si
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Wrong hammok
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Wrong Hill
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An then, what about the huge leaves amongst the New York City cabs? This is the fantasy of all hyper-urban consumerists inside us: a wide leave to tuck us in like in a spring- roll and to give us life.
Essentially, Comanescu proves to us and to himself that to be Zen doesn’t exactly mean to lay on bleu-culottes clouds but on the most kitschy and expensive comforter of the world he created for free.>>
Andreiana Mihail
Text for "Beach Boy", Side A - Side B exhibition, Curator: Andreiana Mihail, 26 Gallery, Atelier HAG Gallery, Bucharest, 2006
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(...) Nicolae Comanescu was a good choice (...), as his impressive paintings burst with strong colour and contrast. This is Comanescu’s style: playful and ironic, not taking himself too seriously, which allows him a certain liberty and detachment from his own Catch-22. Though some of his paintings may strike one as a tad kitsch (see his "Girls in Bikini on Beach" series), Comanescu laughs at himself, while entitling his works (two big paintings) "Spending your Mid Life Crisis on the Beach". In fact, the entire exhibition at gallery 26 was called "Beach Boy", reflecting Nicolae Comanescu in his late thirties, still provocative with black –white lines as opposed with bright red-orange in the same painting and spontaneous blizzards of colours or simply a spot of orange on a yellow background or a yellow figure on a green leaf. (...)
Claudia Darian for Vivid magazine on 13|08|2006
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Mid-life crisis camouflaged behind historical symbols, an obvious manipulation. (“Spending your mid-life crisis on the beach!”)
Comanescu gets his redemption and regains our confidence by intelligently conducted contrasts, a delicacy for our humoral papilla. He is reinventing a fantasia-world in each of his excessively colored paintings. A friend, disturbed by the striking orange, told me that we should cover the paintings with tracing paper in order not to terrify the 21st century sensitive eyes.
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