Location: Romania
LAURENTIU DIMISCA
Date and place of birth: January 17th 1977 - Piatra Neamt, Romania
Education:1991-1995 Victor Brauner Fine Arts High School - Piatra Neamt
2000 License of painting University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2001 Member of Romanian UAP Piatra Neamt Subsidiary Artistic
2002 Master degree in painting, University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2006 Candidate for a doctor’s degree in painting, Cluj Napoca, Romania
2011 Doctorate Degree in Decorative and Fine Arts.
Thesis: “Art Brut. Art or Madness”
Activity / Personal and group exhibitions in Romania / abroad:
2002 Group Painting exhibition in Mandrisio - Foxtown, Switzerland
Personal exhibition at the Art Plaza Gallery - Boca Chica, Dominican Republic
Personal Art Performance - Art Museum Piatra Neamt, Romania
2003 Personal Painting exhibition at “La Maison des Metiers d'Art” Roanne, France
Personal Painting and ceramics exhibition - Visual Art Museum Galati, Romania
Personal Painting exhibition - Collection Museum “Vasile Pârvan” Bârlad, Romania
2004 Personal Painting exhibition at “Albert Serol” Roanne, France
Personal Painting exhibition at “Club Conti” Milano, Italy
2005 Colective exhibition - Romanian Culture Institute Budapesta, Hungary
Colective exibition - colaboration Claude Petite Jean Gallery - Shanghai, China
The European Parliament – “Mini art”, IAA/AIAP, Bruxelles, Belgium
2006 Colective exhibition “Francophilie” – Paris, France and Liege, Belgium
Colective exhibition Paintings and sculpture – Torino, Italy
Personal exhibition National Center of Culture and Art - „George Apostu” Bacau
Personal exhibition Parliament Palace - „ Constantin Brancusi” - Bucuresti, Romania
Group exhibition at Romanian Cultural Institute - Prague, Czech Republic
Personal Exhibition at “Allianz Tiriac”Bank, Bucharest, Romania.
2007 Personal exhibition Galeria “Cozia” – Hamme, Belgium
Personal exhibition Castle Beaulieu – Rioges, France
Personal exhibition “Aripa Gallery” – Torino, Italy
International Exhibition group „Covalenco Gallery” - Eindhoven, Netherlands
International Exhibition "Singul'ART" and MAPGI, "Libertin'art" - Lyon, France
Group exhibition "Hommage à Bacchus" - JULIENAS - Rhône, France
Group exhibition "L'Art en Marche" - Lapalisse, France
Italian-Romanian Exhibition, "Apollo" Gallery - Bucharest, Romania
Group Exhibition "Faylla" Gallery, "Artimundo" Gallery - Brussels, Belgium
Personal Galleries Exhibition "Passe-partout", Sibiu, European Capital of Culture, Romania
2008 Personal Exhibition - Brut Art Museum- Lapalisse, France
Group exhibition, Mably, France
International itinerant group exhibition - "Vineyards and wines" - Cluj-Napoca, Bacau, Piatra Neamt - Romania
St. Etienne and Roanne Beaujoules festival - France
2009 Personal exhibition Pays Vichy-Auvergne, Issoire (Nomadic Art) - France
"Passions and Patterns" - personal exhibition - EEFineart Gallery - United Kingdom UK, "City Gallery"
Personal exhibition – Suceava, Romania
Personal exhibition, Casino Sinaia, Romania
Biz 'Art - Le Vandiouse, France
2010 Chateau du Beaulieu Riorges, Vichy, France
Group exhibition, Einhoven Covalenco Gallery, Netherlands
Personal exhibition, Galerie du Colombier - Paris, France
2011 Expo group and personal- colaboration with Abrupt Gallery- Grenoble-France
Group exhibition, Erotic Art, Covalenco Gallery Einhoven, Netherlands
Group exhibition , European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Personal exhibition, Carré d'artistes Art Gallery,Paris-Saint Germain
Group Exhibition, A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery – New York City
Group Art Show on Broadway-Dacia Gallery- New York City
2013 Personal exhibition- Romanian Cultural Institute -art curator Eliza Ploia-Lyon-Franta
Ambiental art:
2000 Monumental painting in sgraffito technique - first floor Cluj Napoca CFR Polyclinic
Iconostasis painting - “Dealu Mare” Monastery - Maramures
2002 No.2, Kindergarten “Childhood” - al secco/akril technique, Piatra Neamt
”Banished towards love” al secco/ rigips technique - Vert Gallery, Piatra Neamt
”Cycles of life” ambiental work of 70 square meters at „Vila Solomon” - Piatra Neamt
2003 “Window man” 80 mp., al secco/rigips technique (akril colours), GEALAN Bucharest
“Paradise” - 20 mp al secco/rigips technique “Romarta Gallery” Piatra Neamt
2004 “Love”- 15 mp al secco/exteriory technique (akril colours), Andora Italy
2007 "Ideal City" - outside work, 80 sqm, secco technique / Acrylic - Piatra Neamt, Romania
"Love Story" - outside work, 30 sqm, secco technique / Acrylic, Raw Art Museum, Lapalisse, France
2008 "Culture and Sports" - secco / acrylic, exterior – 30 mp, Mably, France
"Love strike or Great Family" – Elena Doamna center - secco / acrylic, interior – 25 mp - Piatra-Neamt, Romania
International and National Biannual of Contemporany Art:
2004 Contemporany Biennale of Art - Alassio, Italy
2005 Contemporany Biennale of Art - Firenze, Italy
2006 Pastel Biennale Nowy Sacz, Poland
2011 - Fourth Edition - 4BHN - International Biennale d'art «Hors les normes", Lyon, France colaboration with Abrupt Gallery-France
International and National Salon of Contemporany Art:
2006 National Salon of Contemporany Art - Parliament Palace - „Brancusi” - Bucuresti, Romania
Prizes:
2001 Romanian U.A.P. prize in painting, biannual “Lascar Vorel” edition - Piatra Neamt, Romania
2006 Distinction of „Ambasador of Eurointegration through Art” International Campus,
Moldova Republic
2007 Salons Moldova - Bacau, Romania.
2010 National and International Awards for Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania
International Contest of Art:
2004 Centre Culturale Paraxo – Andora, Italy
2005 Decourtenay Ambassador's Art Prize Belgium
International and National Art Fairs:
2002 28 February 4 march ”Let Art Lift Our Spirits”- 28th edition, ARTEXPO New York
2003 International art visual fair, Edition V Bucharest, Romania
2004 National Art Visual, Sofitel, World Trade Center, Bucharest, Romania
2005 National Erotic Art, Bucharest, Romania
2006 Art - event, Anvers, Belgium
2007 International Contest of Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts - Barlad, Romania
2007 Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, Verona, Italy, with L' „Art en Marche” (France)
2008 International Art Fair - colaboration Claude Petite Jean Gallery - Shanghai, China
Outsider-ArtFair, Art en marche Gallery- Haarlem, Netherlands
2010 Outsider-ArtFair, Art en marche Gallery- Haarlem, Netherlands
National and international art festivals:
2009 "Itineraires Singuliers - Dijon, France
2010 Baz’ art – Bezu, near Paris, France
2011 International Meeting singular art - "Ousider star's" - St. Amant Roche Savine, France
2012- Baz’ art – Bezu, near Paris, France
Curatorial Projects:
2009 "Vineyards and Wines" - 60 international outsider artists and contemporary art, itinerant exhibition in Piatra Neamt, Cluj-Napoca, Bacau, Romania St. Etienne and Roanne, France
2010 "Me and my teachers" - Piatra Neamt, Romania
2010 - 2011 Singular Art - Fest by Dimisca, Romania - International Exhibition of outsiders, exposed in Piatra Neamt, Cluj-Napoca, Bistrita and Bucharest(People-room house "Constantin Brancusi"), Romanian premiere
2012-International Exhibition of art by naive and outsider art Dimisca-National Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti"- Peasant Museum and the National Library of Romania, Bucharest,Romania
www. dimiscartgallery.com, www.outsideart.org
Dimi?c? is in a relation of dependence with the new figuration, as Robert Combas, Dirosa..
Dimi?c? has got everything to be the leader of this Free Figuration. His work is between Raw Art and Contemporary Art. He has boldness in brush, in color. He has spontaneity in ideas, in the narrated happenings. He is a narrative painter. His inspirational source is the great culture where from he extracts: mythologies reviewed and improved by himself, folk-tales from his childhood, from his homeland.
He paints with a warlike passion, with exaltation, with a great deal of physical engagement. However, Dimi?c? doesn't make war but love through his colors. He can pass from icon to the erotic painting. Both will be full of tenderness and love. Look in the eyes of his characters…they love you! Dimi?c? loves you too, as much as he loves Art and Freedom. He helps us to travel back in time, his imagination strikes you, overflows, fills you, hits you with the colors of his characters, from the past, yet so present.
What if nothing would be changed, what if everything would stay still…what if everything would be alike…what if there would be no difference…? Dimi?c? asks and asking questions means to believe in future. His work is full of that optimism, which is indispensable for the development of the art.
Is he a painter? Philosopher? Both, carry him undoubtly to the peak of the art. As all the artists of the world, he is a defender of the freedom of creation. Realism and Utopia lead his hand, he hurries, paints fast, there are many things to be done and the life is so short. He is possessed by grace, it seems that he does everything effortlessly, his easiness, his skill surprises you when you get lucky and have the chance to watch him painting-which is very rare. His bashfulness and shyness makes him more comfortable in the solitude of his workshop than in public.
I can write page after page about Dimi?c? and his work..., so much did he surprise me, astonish me…he was like a thunder strike. I am sure that Dimi?c? will amaze us again.
P.S.: If you will visit France come to see the mural painting made by Dimi?c? on the wall of my museum from Lapallise, in Allier, in the middle of France. It happened in a spring day, with a golden sun, golden as his yellow colors.
I stop here! Enough!
Luis Marcel, Professor of Sculpture, Raw Art and Contemporary Art expert, founder of "Galerie des 4 coins", specialized in Raw Art, founder of "L'Art in Marche Museum" from Lappalise and Hauterives.
“Dimisca in New York”
