I graduated the Fine Arts Academy in Iasi, Romania, with the highest grades in Clothing Design, Decorator (Home Design), Iconography. I am known as IVU, and that is how I sign my works.

I have always tried to understand and capture colors and forms ever since I first began to draw. They never cease to amaze me, being a perpetual challenge. That is how I feel and why I paint; it is somehow like a "struggle" with color and form in the sense of searching and experimenting with new ways to capture the essence of things. Those who own my works can attest to all the details which are impossible to see in a photograph.

Rendering on to canvas the passion within colors is my passion, for color keeps me alive and growing as an artist. God helps and guides me in my creations. Throughout my painting, always restless to explore and do more, I have experienced intense moments of self-discovery. I always paint with oils because only they have the richness of tone and versitility necessary to my expression.

The stages in the production of my creations are always accompanied by a deeply passionate inner turmoil that I control and direct.  This control and the clarity it brings helps me see and express myself clearly through the brush in my hand. I often find it a bit awkward to speak about myself so I express that self through my paintings.

Many people love my work and buy my paintings and have been kind enough to tell me of their daily enjoyment of them.  I take great delight in knowing so many homes have a distinctive touch with my paintings on their walls. 

I create modern art as a person guided by old, precise, and clearly defined principles of honor and respect. It might be considered old-fashioned, but I will not change.  With the hope that you have an idea about myself as person and artist, I invite you to enjoy my work and, hopefully, buy it.

IVU STUDIES:
 
Academy of Fine Arts " G. Enescu" IASI, Faculty of  Plastic Arts, Design and Home Decoration, Painting Section.
Member of the n Fine Arts Union since 2000. From 1992,
Participated, in all youth National and Group Department Exhibitions.

IVU in GROUP EXHIBITIONS :

- 1992 "ART" Gallery Bacau; - 1993 "ALFA"Gallery Bacau; - 1994 "ARTA"Gallery Bacau; - 1994 International Contest Exhibition "SALOANELE MOLDOVEI" Bacau-Chisinau; - 1994 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania; - 1995 "ALFA" Gallery Bacau- Romania; - 1995 International Contest Exhibition "SALOANELE MOLDOVEI" Bacau-Chisinau; - 1995 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania; - 1995 "EXPERIMENT" Exhibition "ARTA"Gallery Bacau; Romania; - 1996 "ARTA"Gallery Bacau; Romania; - 1996 International Contest Exhibition "SALOANELE MOLDOVEI" Bacau-Chisinau; - 1996  Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau;Roumania; - 1997 "ARTA" Gallery Bacau; Roumania; - 1997 Iconography Exhibition  – ATENEU; Roumania; - 1997 International Contest Exhibition "SALOANELE
MOLDOVEI" Bacau-Chisinau; - 1997 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania; - 1998"ARTA" Gallery Bacau Romania; - 1998International Contest Exhibition "SALOANELE MOLDOVEI" Bacau-Chisinau; - 1998 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania; - 1999"ARTA" Gallery Bacau. Romania; - 1999International Contest Exhibition "SALOANELE MOLDOVEI" Bacau-Chisinau; - 1999 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania; - 2000 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania
- 2000 International Contest Exhibition "SALOANELE MOLDOVEI" Bacau-Chisinau; - 2001 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania; - 2001 International Contest Exhibition "SALOANELE MOLDOVEI" Bacau-Chisinau; - 2001 National Art Ermitage Bucharest; Romania; - 2001 International Contest Exhibition "N.Tonitza " Birlad ,Vaslui; - 2002 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; - 2002 International Contest Exhibition "SALOANELE MOLDOVEI" Bacau-Chisinau; - 2003 – Exhibition 3 spre10; - 2003 - Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania; - 2003 -  “EXPERIMENT” Exhibition - “ARTA” Gallery Bacau; - 2003 - International Contest Exhibition “SALOANELE MOLDOVEI” Bacau-Chisinau;  - 2004 – STUDIO ‘35 “ARTA” Gallery Bacau; - 2004 - International Contest Exhibition “SALOANELE MOLDOVEI” Bacau Chisinau; - 2004 -  National Contest Plastic Art “VORONETIANA” Suceava; - 2004 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; - 2004  Exhibition Buzau;
-2004 Exhibition "C-tin Brancusi" UAP Republic Moldova- Chisinau; - -2004 Exhibition "ATITUDINI" Gallery ARTA Bacau; - 2005 - Atelier 35 Gallery ARTA Bacau, - 2005 Exhibition "LASCAR VOREL" Piatra Neamt; - 2006 Exhibition 100 Tzara Gallery ARTA Bacau; 2006 Exhibition Moinesti; - 2006 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; - 2006 - International Contest Exhibition “SALOANELE MOLDOVEI” Bacau-Chisinau; - 2007 Exhibition "ZOOMORFA" Iulia Antonescu Bacau; - 2007 Exhibition "SEMNE CRESTINE" Gallery FRUNZETI Bacau; - 2007 Exhibition UAP Piatra Neamt; - 2007 Exhibition N.N. Tonitza Barlad; 2007 Exhibition "Ioan Andreescu "Buzau; 2007 Exhibition Gallery GENEZA Moinesti; - 2007 - International Contest Exhibition “SALOANELE MOLDOVEI” Bacau-Chisinau;


IVU’s Personal Exhibitions :

- 1998 HAPPENING – "BACOVIA" Theatre Bacau; Romania
- 2001 "ARTA" Gallery Bacau Romania
- 2005 “FILLART” Gallery

 


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