A square canvas in which a room exists at an hour that cannot be identified — the light implies neither day nor night but some third state between them, and the objects in the room respond to this ambiguity by casting shadows that do not correspond to any single light source. The room's geography is coherent; its temporal position is not.
Acrylic allowed the subtle colour transitions in the ambient light to be built up gradually. The painting required many sessions before the light quality settled into something that felt genuinely ambiguous rather than merely underlit or over-exposed.
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.
