PETRICA STEFAN

Synthetic Landscape 2, 2016, acrylic,marker, oil on canvas, 150×90 cm
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Petrica Stefan is a young painter (b. 1988, Resita) living in Timisoara, Romania. He has an MFA degree in Painting from the West University in Timisoara.
“Petrică Ştefan’s painting evolves under certain rules imposed by the artist himself. With a carefully built studio routine, the painter thoroughly explores ways and methods of rendering matter in its various forms, from heavy, earthly consistencies to aerial vibrations and a certain line parallelism that become, altogether, real communication networks between the types of space he introduces in his works. Although shapes are not missing, and the construction of the image is similar to a study after life, the mental challenges that he creates stand in the comprehension of the whole. One could say that he paints in an abstract manner from this point of view, of abstract thinking transposed into visual image. The fragments he depicts, diverse and combined, seem to be part of a knowledgeable wholeness.
Being taught in an academic environment where abstraction had been practiced for decades, and I am referring to the Art University in Timişoara, he studied with Cristian Sida, a well-known abstract artist himself, who had been Romul Nuţiu’s studio assistant. Petrică Ştefan continues the practice and transforms it in his own style, always looking for new ways of expression of his ideas. His style can be easily recognized after a few distinctive elements: small, vibrate color spots juxtaposed on rigorous and repetitive parallel lines drawn on large-scale surfaces. His backgrounds are painted in light, aerial colors that remind us of sky details painted by the masters of landscape. He uses mixed media, acrylic or oil paint combined with a rigorous drawing in ink.”
Simona Vilau on occasion of the exhibition „Fluid Networks“, 2017
WORKS IN ART COLLECTIONS
Art in Embassies
Private collections in Europe and USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
On Space | Petrica Stefan
Catalogue ‘Art in Embassies Exhibition’, United States Embassy, Bucharest | Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 2016
SYMPOSIA
Artists in Residence, Serbia
Cetate Arts Danube – Artists in Residence, 2014, 2016 – 2019, Cetate Arts Danube Center, Cetate, Romania
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Topographic Cycles
Columb 11, Bucharest
2018
Solo Show
Stefan Vogdt Galerie, Munich
2017
Fluid Networks
418Gallery, Cetate
2016
On Space
418Gallery, Bucharest
2012
Konfrontation V
Galerie 3,Klagenfurt
2011
Evolution
Triade Gallery, Timișoara
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Opening Artspace, Stefan Radu Cretu, Albert Kaan, Petrica Stefan
GOLDEGG4, Vienna
2018
Herbstausstellung
418 Gallery, Cetate – RO
2017
Konfrontation X
Galeri3 Klagenfurt
Universallowed, grupul Avantpost
Fabrica de bateii, Timisoara
The Burning Island
Belgrade City Museum
Salonul Artelor Vizuale (Youth Award)
Muzeul de Arta , Timisoara
2016
Hidden Agenda (in memoriam Sorin Oncu)
Temporary Museum of Contemporary Art, Timisoara
Hidden Agenda (in memoriam Sorin Oncu)
Rezidenta Scena 9, Bucharest
An abstract feeling: young romanian artists
418Gallery, Bucharest
Unseen
Helios Gallery, Timisoara
2015
Beyond the silence, Theresia Bastion, Timisoara
2014
The Vanishing Point, TIMCO space by Galeria Calina
Cetate – Workshop at the Danube VII
418 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2011
Spazzi Apertti
Romanian Cultural Institute, Roma
Ars Pontem Contest (won)
Rogathe Church, Hamburg
Salonul Artelor Vizuale/ Visual Arts Saloon
Baroque Palace, Timișoara
2010
Jurnal de Atelier /Studio Diary
Galeria Casa Artelor, Timișoara
Jurnal de Atelier /Studio Diary
UnaGaleria, București
Premiul I in cadrul concursului Juventus cu tema Portret / Juventus contest (won)
Triade Gallery, Timișoara
Gata!/ Enough!
Helios Gallery, Timișoara
Semn-Simbol/ Sign-Symbol
Romanian Cultural Institute, Budapesta
Arts & Design College Aniversary Exhibition
Timco Spaces, Timișoara
Salonul Artelor Vizuale/ Visual Arts Saloon
Baroque Palace, Timișoara
2009
Salonul Artelor Vizuale/ Visual Arts Saloon
Baroque Palace, Timișoara