Complex sentence: Puiu's first interest in art was painting and in 1992, he was admitted as a student at the Painting Department of Ecole Superieure d'Arts Visuels in Geneva.
Split into simpler sentences: Puiu's first interest in art was painting. In 1992, he was admitted as a student to the Painting Department of "Ecole Superieure d'Arts Visuels" in Geneva.