47. Show [early 2000s] [începutul anilor 2000]

Every artwork is based, in Ștefan Câlția's conception, on a very clear geometry. Even the figurative can be decomposed, methodical, in more distinct elements. The painter of silences, the artist particularly stakes on multi-character compositions, on spatiality and the distances that are installed between them. In the economy of his creation, the character is offered an essential role. But for Câlția, the character must not be interpreted only through the decoding of a human silhouette, but can represent a cloud, a tree, a bird or even the background of the work. His female models, often painted with a bouquet of flowers in their hands, are inspired by the village women whom the artist used to meet when leaving the church. The event was marked by the wearing of "Sunday" clothes, specially preserved for the occasion. In canvases dedicated to flying or travelling, Ștefan Câlția is portrayed as a visual narrator, while his works that represent the world as a theatre, the artist assigning himself a double role: set designer and playwright. Naturally, the grammar of his converge plastic signs to a specific state of being. Starting from the idea that "we are the actors of this world", Ștefan Câlția opens the cycle dedicated to the show of his works. The world of the show from his creation appears, initially, in carnival form. The artist adopts the moral meaning of the proposed characters, illustrates the fascinating world of circus and presents an upside-down world. He shapes his repertoire from the immediate reality and from his direct contact with divinity. He creates certain typologies which become his creation's leitmotiv, regardless the chosen theme: Women with flowers, the traveller, the bird - understood both through decor and through a connection mode with the celestial. He features presents the background as a perpetuum mobile and an infinite ancestral space. In the transition from backstage to the curtain, the artist demonstrates his mastery of illustrating magical realism, encapsulating symbols in a playful manner. The ambivalence of the semiotics proposed by the artist is revealed in simple motifs, which have become a leitmotiv.

References

GUȚĂ, Adrian; PAVEL, Amelia, "Ștefan Câlția", Possible Gallery, Bucharest, 2004.

Dimensions

width 41 cm, height 50 cm

Description

oil on canvas, signed upper right, in red, "Câlția"

Dating

începutul anilor 2000

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