Painted from a car park adjacent to a decommissioned chemical plant in Pitești, this realist landscape records the particular texture of industrial surfaces after decades of weathering — the staining, the efflorescence, the repairs that have themselves begun to fail. It is not a picturesque subject but it is a true one.
The scale required working from a distance that meant some detail had to be established from photographs, but the painting was largely completed on site over four sessions across one week, before the light conditions changed with the season.
About the artist
Laurentiu Marin's practice divides between two poles he considers complementary rather than contradictory: realist paintings of specific industrial and urban subjects, rendered with high fidelity to surface and material, and minimalist works that strip the pictorial field to a single compositional proposition. Both modes share the same underlying interest in how much information a painting needs.
He trained as an engineer before taking up painting, and that background is visible in the precision of his pictorial decisions — nothing is placed without a reason, and the reason is always structural rather than decorative. He is based in Pitești and takes commissions for industrial and architectural portraits.
