A male torso rendered in the cubist tradition — multiple planes of the body visible simultaneously, no single viewpoint sustained, the whole figure existing as a compressed spatial argument rather than an anatomical record. The painting was made from a combination of life drawing sessions and studio construction.
The palette is warm and restricted — raw sienna, titanium white, and black — so that colour never distracts from the structural problem the painting is working through. The background planes were the most difficult element to resolve.
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.
