Florin Stefan
35 x 55 cm
Signed on the back
Dans cette oeuvre, Florin Stefan realise une toile rassemblant cinq femmes nues, se perdant dans le bleu intense de la réunion de l'eau, des vagues et du ciel. Hommage aux baigneuses classiques, ce tableau est empreint d'une coupable innocence, à l'image de son titre Réflexions sur le jugement dernier #2 soulignant l'absurdité de l'existence et ses aboutissants dans l'intimité du quotidien.
200 x 210 cm
Signed at the back
240 x 180 cm
Signed at the back
180 x 130 cm
Signed at the back
160 x 100 cm
Signed at the back
55 x 61,5 inch
Exhibition:
- This is not a love song, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2018
31,7 x 48,8 inch
Exhibition:
- This is not a love song, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, March, 10th - April, 28th 2018
31, 5 x 55 inch
Exhibition:
- This is not a love song, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2018
39,3 x 47,2 inch
Exhibition:
- Life A User's Manual, Art Encounters, Contemporary Art Biennial , Timisoara, Romania, 30th September- 5th November 2017
19,5 x 21, 5 inches
13,7 x 15,7 inches
Exhibitions:
- This is not a love song, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2018
- Life A User's Manual, Art Encounters, Contemporary Art Biennial , Timisoara, Romania, 2017
21,5 x 13,7 inches
Exhibitions:
- This is not a love song, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2018
- La boîte rouge, Galerie Iconoscope, 22nd april- 13th July 2017, Montpellier, France
110 x 160 cm
Morpheus's bed depicts a naked woman lying on her bed in the dark. Both the room and her body are barely distinguishable, blending successively into the patterns of the coloured sheets. In this way, Florin Stefan depicts the intimacy of this woman's sleep. And it is the painting that becomes important: the warm colours catch the eye and take the viewer into the calm of this silent room.
78,7 x 86,5 inches
Exhibition:
- This is not a love song, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2018
- Life A User's Manual, Art Encounters, Contemporary Art Biennial , Timisoara, Romania, 30th September- 5th November 2017
67 x 94,5 inches
140 x 100 cm
In Camera Obscura, Florin Stefan plays on perspective through the succession of doors depicted as a mise en abyme of the idea of the frame. The female nude, a theme dear to the artist, is expressed in a play on light reinforced by the title, which recalls the importance of cinematographic framing in the painting of the Romanian artist.
51 x 51 inches
Exhibitions:
- This is not a love song, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2018
- La boîte rouge, Galerie Iconoscope, 22nd april- 13th July 2017, Montpellier, France
150 x 100 cm
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm
16 x 14 inches
Exhibition:
- La boîte rouge, Galerie Iconoscope, 22nd april- 13th July 2017, Montpellier, France
110 x 140 cm
In Russian Geisha, Florin Stefan manipulates themes that are dear to him: The female nude and the reinterpretation of classic pictorial scenes. Here, one can recognize a revisiting of the Déjeuner sur l'herbe with a resolutely modern touch and staging. As often with Florin Stefan, the subject matter ultimately takes a back seat. The eye is drawn to the painting itself, in this case, the still life with the plastic bottle in the foreground or the large kitschy floral tapestry that serves as a backdrop.
43,3 x 63 inches
31, 5 x 39,3 inches
Collection privée
63 x 39,4 inches
55,1 x 78,7 inches
51,2 x 67 inches
39,4 x 39,4 inches
47,2 x 70,9 inches
59,1 x 39,4 inches
Exhibitions:
- Wasted Time, Art Capital – Visual Arts Festival and Biennale, Musée Ferenczy – ArtMill, Szentendre, Hongrie, du 1st September- 20th November 2016
- FaceTime, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, du 25th March- 7th May 2016
15,7 x 11 inches
140 x 200 cm
Two neighbours surprised on a landing, embracing eachother and kissing. The scene is seen from the opposite passageway. Thus, the composition become a long distance look more than a neutral opposite building, and the architecture a spectacular image.
39,3 x 59 inches
Collection privée
78,7 x 51,2 inches
95 x 145 cm
170 x 270 cm
Members of a band lying on the grass, surprised while they are taking a post -concert nap.
The canvas set the pace to an approach that intends to obtain contrasts, strong and clear masses. Florin Stefan is an analyst painter; the subject is a sufficient pretext to rethink the landscape, with its resistances, delicacies and sharpness such as this vast area with a large plan, instruments scattered and intense background. It's a section of nature colonized with simplicity, which becomes admirable thanks to the exposure of so many distinctive elements.
39,3 x 31,5 inches
Collection privée
40 x 35 cm
Repos plunges the viewer into the folds of a woman's body, of which only the chest, belly and thighs are visible. The daring of the framing and the proximity of the model emphasize the pictorial material whose light and warm colors seem to animate the flesh. Nourished by the sensuality of the classical nudes' paintings, Florin Stefan delivers here an intimate painting, bathed in desire and mystery.
35 x 40 cm
Corps plunges the viewer into the folds of a woman's body, of which only the chest, belly and thighs are visible. The daring of the framing and the proximity of the model emphasize the pictorial material whose light and warm colors seem to animate the flesh. Nourished by the sensuality of the classical nudes' paintings, Florin Stefan delivers here an intimate painting, bathed in desire and mystery.
15, 7 x 19, 6 inches
Collection privée
39,3 x 55 inches
Collection privée
55 x 74,8 inches
Collection privée
51 x 78,7 inches
collection privée
15,7 x 23? 6 inches
Collection privée
31, 5 x 47,2 inches
Collection privée
68,8 x 78,7 inches
collection privée
Florin Stefan is a Romanian artist. He lives and works in Cluj, the second artistic capital right after Bucharest. This city has held the attention those past few years thanks to the emergence of what some may call its school of painting just like Leipzig did. Florin Stefan's paintings cover as much interior and genre scenes, as portraits, nudes and landscapes. The feminine figures are abundant in his work. May they be sitting, leaning, drowsed in front of a mirror, cleaning themselves, or in bed, they all reflect the instant, the desire that arises and become blunted, the attraction as Ami Barack writes.
Those figures became impertinent works of art thanks to their framing and the richness of the tones used. The peculiar vision that Florin Stefan has of the things that surround him, his subjects, are far from lacking character and he expresses it through color, light and material.
Florin Stefan is also one of the first artists that freed himself from the weight of the chaotic past of his country. He chose to express himself through a resolutely contemporary art and which does not exclude his doubts, his fears, but also reveals a struggle between the artist and his painting.
He was born in 1968 (Romania).He now lives and works in Cluj, Romania, where he also runs an art center.