Veron Urdarianu

Veron Urdarianu (born 1953 in Bucharest, Romania) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

Loneliness, silence, memory and history are the leitmotifs in his work. Urdarianu shows figures in surreal situations, combines objects that are neither perspectively nor narratively precise. A characteristic feature is the mostly pale, muted colouration, which gives the sitter an enraptured character. The viewer is left in the dark and finds room for his own associations.

Through the layering of paint and the use of adhesive tape, through the addition and overpainting or scratching off of pictorial elements, an enigmatic visual language emerges. In one work on paper, created in 2008/09, a woman looks out to sea, where boats float in the calm waters. But where is she standing? A shore is not discernible, only the shadowy outline of the horizon. An improbable calm and timelessness pervades the scenery.

Veron Urdarianu’s works are like allegories of existential moments. They do not tell stories, they evoke emotions. The focus is not on intellectual penetration or interpretation, but rather on the ability to open oneself to a world beyond the mind.