36. Mistress of the World [1986]

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36. Mistress of the World [1986]

Sabin Bălaşa

1932, Dobriceni, Olt - 2008, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 7.000 - 10.000

Sold

EUR 15.000

References

DEAC, Mircea, "Sabin Bălașa", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1984.

oil on canvas, 60 x 70 cm, signed and dated bottom left, in brown, "Sabin Bălașa, (19)86"

The utopian universe we find on the canvases of Sabin Bălașa, inside of which the artist has been adventuring since his childhood, reiterating his fascination with the unknown and the infinite. In his works, the triumph of the contemporary symbol over the archetypal symbol stands out, unquestionably, from which it will nevertheless retain its universal value. Bălașa approaches themes from the universal legends and mythology and sketches subjects such as life or death, childhood or youth or the wish of renaissance. In his creation, art appears as an eternal dream - not so much of the artist, but of all mankind. The artist declares that for him art is "a supreme exercise of his own freedom, a big capacity to love". The painting of Bălașa is presented to us as a continuous diffusion over time. The cosmos, the marine world, the desert or the mountains are only a small part of the infinite universe in which the artist carefully places his fabulous beings. Used with predilection since the early period, the colour blue, in his vision, "is the most distant light, it is the immensity in which all colours and all forms are resolved and reborn, it is truth, the ideal, eternity". The artist who succeeded to populate the sky with human beings builds his own plastic semantics with the help of which he will paint metaphors with poetic resonance. Having become a leitmotif, Bălașa's caryatid appears, this time, prefigured in the foreground of the canvas, carrying on its shoulders the whole harmony of light.

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