Maxim Liulca
Publisher: DISTANZ Verlag
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9783954762194
Subjects: Stripes in art
Description: The history of abstraction was made by individuals as well as movements. It would have been inconceivable without the fervent embrace of innovation in the early twentieth century. The first artists who experimented with abstract forms primarily strove to overcome the prevailing bourgeois conception of art. The abstract tendency that erupted in traditional art almost like a revolution has remained integral to art and is now widely accepted as a counterweight to figuration. The works of Maxim Liulca (b. Tighina, Moldova, 1987; lives and works in Cluj, Romania) reflect his rigorous but recognizably affectionate critical thinking. At first glance, his paintings might be taken for old Romanian carpets. But the sources of his motifs range from folkloric Romanian fabrics to 1970s geometric wallpapers, from Dada to Russian Constructivism. Liulca combines pseudo-narrative, equivocal, demotic styles with pop culture or geometric patterns, as the case may be.
Notes: Chiefly illustrated.