Sergiu Roman是一名热衷将哲学作为自己作品主题的艺术家，在他的作品里，观者很容易便能发现一些特别的符号。这些符号揭示着人类生存的奥秘，也是他作品不可或缺的元素。Sergiu希望通过这些符号表达自己的哲学思想，并以此促进人们感受世界。

Sergiu Roman was born in Iasi, Romania. As a self-taught artist, he explored many areas of painting, styles and techniques, since 1990 when he started for the first time to make oil paintings, at the age of thirteen. Although painting was his true calling, he became increasingly preoccupied by philosophical problems, and in 2003 he attained the Bachelor Degree in Philosophy and Logic.

While working as a high school teacher of Psychology and Philosophy, he continued painting and stayed closely in touch with the artistic elite in Romania, so in 2010 he joined a team of artists and experts commissioned to paint and restore historical churches’ frescoes. In 2011, he moved to Shanghai, where he shortly resumed his creative activities.

Through all Sergiu‘s artistic stages, more or less abstract, he pursued the concept of Mystery. The study of philosophy shows that there are no infallible answers to our most important questions: What is the meaning of life / history / aesthetic sensibility / life-changing encounters? Etc. Nevertheless, art can cast a light. So much, that it sharpens our sensibility to the point where we can be seized by personal revelations. This is exactly what Sergiu tries to accomplish through his art: to facilitate the viewers’ honest contact with their very essence.

Creating intricate compositions in which the human presence is placed right in the middle of the conundrum, using symbols and mysterious graphisms combining various techniques in unexpected ways, Sergiu Roman’s paintings address our deepest archetypal sensibility. They awaken our need to (re)define ourselves, and consequently to choose freely our place in the world. His paintings are intended enigmas, which act like metaphysical mirrors: the viewers would only apprehend their own reflections, hopefully their most intimate metaphysical fabric. The purpose of his art is not to elicit certain feelings, but to make the viewers reconsider their concept of personal destiny.

KING OF SPADES

Oil on canvas

120x160cm