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Réflexions sur le jugement dernier #2, 2021
Réflexions sur le jugement dernier #2, 2021
oil on canvas
35 x 55 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2021001

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.

Apocalypso, 2021
Apocalypso, 2021
Oil on canvas
200 x 210 cm
Signed at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2021004
Réflexions sur le jugement dernier, 2021
Réflexions sur le jugement dernier, 2021
Oil on canvas
240 x 180 cm
Signed at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2021003
Ophelies, 2021
Ophelies, 2021
Oil on canvas
180 x 130 cm
Signed at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2021002
La petite mort, 2020
La petite mort, 2020
Oil on canvas
160 x 100 cm
Signed at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2020001
Painter's mother, 2018
Painter's mother, 2018
Oil on canvas
55 x 61,5 inch
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2018003

Exhibition:
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This is not a love song, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2018

Dawn, 2018
Dawn, 2018
Oil on canvas
31,7 x 48,8 inch
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 2018002

Exhibition:
- This is not a love song, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, March, 10th - April, 28th 2018

La chatte sur un lit brûlant, 2018
La chatte sur un lit brûlant, 2018
Oil on canvas
31, 5 x 55 inch
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2018001

Exhibition:
- This is not a love song, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2018

Slow Love, 2017 - 2018
Slow Love, 2017 - 2018
Oil on canvas
39,3 x 47,2 inch
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2017011

Exhibition:
- Life A User's Manual, Art Encounters
, Contemporary Art Biennial , Timisoara, Romania, 30th September- 5th November 2017

Thérapie de couple, 2017
Thérapie de couple, 2017
Oil on canvas
19,5 x 21, 5 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2017007
Je t'aime moi non plus, 2017
Je t'aime moi non plus, 2017
Oil on canvas
13,7 x 15,7 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 2017009

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

Mercredi matin, 2017
Mercredi matin, 2017
Oil on canvas
21,5 x 13,7 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2017004

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

Morpheus' bed, 2017
Morpheus' bed, 2017
Oil on canvas
110 x 160 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2017003

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.

Entanglement, 2017
Entanglement, 2017
Oil on canvas
78,7 x 86,5 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2017010

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

Blow-up, 2017
Blow-up, 2017
Oil on canvas
67 x 94,5 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2017001
Camera obscura, 2017
Camera obscura, 2017
Oil on canvas
140 x 100 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2017002

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.

Camera obscura #2, 2017
Camera obscura #2, 2017
OIl on canvas
51 x 51 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2017005

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

Interior architecture #4, 2017
Interior architecture #4, 2017
Oil on canvas
150 x 100 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2017008
Interior architecture #3, 2017
Interior architecture #3, 2017
Interior architecture
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2017006
Jeune femme, 2016
Jeune femme, 2016
Oil on canvas
16 x 14 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2016004

Exhibition:
- La boîte rouge, Galerie Iconoscope, 22nd april- 13th July 2017, Montpellier, France

Russian Geisha, 2016
Russian Geisha, 2016
Oil on canvas
110 x 140 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2016002

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.

Face Time, 2015
Face Time, 2015
Oil on canvas
43,3 x 63 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2015002
The Mother hands, 2015
The Mother hands, 2015
Oil on canvas
31, 5 x 39,3 inches
Collection privée
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2015009
Hotline, 2015
Hotline, 2015
Oil on canvas
63 x 39,4 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2015005
Carrot Cake, 2015
Carrot Cake, 2015
Oil on canvas
55,1 x 78,7 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2015006
Moldavian Carpet, 2015
Moldavian Carpet, 2015
Oil on canvas
51,2 x 67 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2015004
Home, 2016
Home, 2016
Oil on canvas
39,4 x 39,4 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2016001
Shower, 2015
Shower, 2015
Oil on canvas
47,2 x 70,9 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2015003
Gotcha, 2015
Gotcha, 2015
Oil on canvas
59,1 x 39,4 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2015008

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

Omphalos, 2015
Omphalos, 2015
Oil on canvas
15,7 x 11 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2015007
The Kiss, 2015
The Kiss, 2015
Oil on canvas
140 x 200 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2015001

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.

You and me, 2015
You and me, 2015
Oil on canvas
39,3 x 59 inches
Collection privée
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2015010
Interior Architecture, 2014
Interior Architecture, 2014
Oil on canvas
78,7 x 51,2 inches
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2014002
Interior Architecture #2, 2014
Interior Architecture #2, 2014
Oil on canvas
95 x 145 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2014003
The Sleep, 2014
The Sleep, 2014
Oil on canvas
170 x 270 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2014001

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.

Women on carpet, 2014
Women on carpet, 2014
oil on canvas
39,3 x 31,5 inches
Collection privée
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2014005
Repos, 2014
Repos, 2014
oil on canvas
40 x 35 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2014007

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.

Corps, 2014
Corps, 2014
oil on canvas
35 x 40 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2014006

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.

Honey jar, 2014
Honey jar, 2014
Oil on canvas
15, 7 x 19, 6 inches
Collection privée
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2014004
Sakhnin Actor, 2013
Sakhnin Actor, 2013
Oil on canvas
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2013001
The Alchemist, 2012
The Alchemist, 2012
Oil on canvas
39,3 x 55 inches
Collection privée
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2012002
Searching for a sugar boy, 2012
Searching for a sugar boy, 2012
Oil on canvas
55 x 74,8 inches
Collection privée
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2012004
Ten to nine, 2012
Ten to nine, 2012
Oil on canvas
51 x 78,7 inches
collection privée
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2012001
Dead man, 2012
Dead man, 2012
Oil on canvas
15,7 x 23? 6 inches
Collection privée
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2012005
La chambre, 2012
La chambre, 2012
oil on canvas
31, 5 x 47,2 inches
Collection privée
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2012003
The fugue, 2011
The fugue, 2011
Oil on canvas
68,8 x 78,7 inches
collection privée
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. FS2011001

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.


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