Faust: Vanity and Despair Painting

Born in 1988 in Sibiu (Romania), Alexandru Cînean graduated from the Arts highschool in 2007. He undertake studies of painting at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca where he earned in 2010 a BA and a Ma in 2012. In 2008-2009, noted for the quality of his work, he was offered a stay in the Academia de Bella Arte in Torino in the European Erasmus project. He benefits again from this project in 2011 and decides to go in Belgium for 3 months (11/2011-02/2012) in the Thuin’s gallery (Antecedence/Ephemere). During his career, Alexandru Cînean made several exhibitions notably in Belgium, Romania, Australia and Italy. He also participated in some theatrical projects and received in 2009 a prize in the Concorso Nazionale di Pittura Morgese in Italy. Alexandru Cînean is a young painter who suggest us a powerful, full of torments, troubling and significant work. The artist offers a reflection on human nature, the dangers of its intelligence and tautness of the soul. His brushstroke sometimes precise, sometimes more impulsive, witnesses the passion of the painter. From landscape to portrait, Alexandru Cînean use dark and dull or bright and violent tones allowing the viewer to immerse himself into the atmosphere of the canvas et to understand an idea of movement, tranquility or distress.