This is probably why his figurative work looks at the same time knowing and innocent, and one begins to understand why he usually chooses wood as the material for them – a material that seems to have an easier access to its humane onlooker, than the metal he mostly chooses for his abstract work.
His structures tell stories about fear and courage, things minor and sublime. They are about the fear of infinity, of the way we are overwhelmed by our own history, and the courage to face it nonetheless.
His vehicle series illustrates one of his special issues – the movement through time and space. He said, "The vehicle is both a symbol for the present we are trapped in and the advancement through space". It is also a symbol for aggression, for the way people affect the natural environment. The effort to find a balance between the figurative and the abstract is here most obvious.
The artist keeps fascinating his public by form – and the sometimes rough surfaces he treasures for their mysterious potential –, which is often clearly inspired by Romanian art, and by his issues: paradise lost, the mythological, the playful, the tragicomic of the human condition, the harsh beauty of a world we only understand partially.
Aranca MUNTEANU