An abstract painting in which two colour fields are brought to within a centimetre of each other without touching — the gap between them is the subject. What happens in that gap, how the two fields charge each other across the separation, whether the eye experiences it as tension or rest — these are the questions the painting is conducting.
The gap was taped before painting and the tape removed while the paint was still wet, so the edges are clean but not mechanical — they retain the slight variation of wet-removed tape rather than the absolute precision of dry removal.
About the artist
Daniel Bucur has spent the last decade building a pictorial world of his own invention — a world governed by rules he has set but never written down, where physical laws apply selectively and objects carry an emotional weight that their literal description does not explain. The paintings are surrealist in the sense that they are faithful to a different kind of reality, one that is felt rather than seen.
He studied in Bucharest and Paris and is currently based in Bucharest, where he runs a small gallery alongside his studio practice. His gouache works on paper are faster and more playful than the oil paintings, made in bursts and kept as a different kind of thinking. He does not accept commissions but is available for studio visits by appointment.
