ANA DUŢIA: Greetings from Paradise

The urban space can be present, under different ways, in artistic representations. From the actual support on which to draw, the walls and the buildings, up to the documentation character it has, offering the richness of its visual images as a source of inspiration.

The documentation character is the one exploited in the series of canvases “Greetings from Paradise”. The paintings are realized after the typical model of a postcard, a piece of paper, depicting a landscape, or a beautiful image of some carefully chosen spots, sent to our loved ones.

The images chosen for representation are selected from a material that belongs to Western Europe. The fact that the heavenly ground is present makes a connection to the Romanian pre-Revolutionary age, in which these countries, this part of the continent, was seen both as the salvation and the wonderful place that delights the eye, the soul, the ultimate happiness, impossible to reach. The choice of common images, taken in the street, without having any tourist site as o goal or center of attention, takes down both the myth of the postcard and the aura created around these countries that were representing more then a dream for Eastern Europe, they were inaccessible, limiting and restricting movements and communication of the inhabitants of the white continent.