Florica Prevenda
Romanian artist
Florica Prevenda (born April 5, 1959) is a Romanian artist, who lives and works in Bucharest, Romania.
Early life and education
Prevenda was born on 5 April 1959 into an Aromanian family. She is a graduate of the National University of Arts, Iași (1984). Between (1993–1997) she was an associate professor at the Bucharest National University of Arts.
Artistic style
The artist is known for her studio-based practice, working primarily in mixed media. Her work engages with conceptual themes, often examining and critiquing visual culture. She has exhibited a series of experimental mixed-media projects..
From the fundamental theme of the Face (The National Art Museum, 1999) until the anonymous multitude of the silhouettes of the Metropolis (The Shadows of the Present, Simeza, 2004), the painter meditates (approaching the face schematically and in series) on the entire magma of emotions and anxieties that haunt the human condition nowadays, evolving towards the depersonalisation of all the nets and towards the consumist reification. This existentialist pithy message is embodied in Florica's painting exactly in the rind, the leather, the scales, the scars, the imprints and the crust of the tones of white, grey, black and ochre of the wrapping cardboard. Her images do not become simpler from a cycle to another.
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