May 25 – June 6

Opening Reception: May 28, 3-5pm

Gallery 2

Born in 1956 in Crevedia near Bucharest, Romania, Gheorghe studied painting and restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest from 1976 to 1980, art education in Bucharest from 1980 to 1988, graphic artist at the National Museum of History in Romania from 1988 to 1989, and art restorer at the National Museum of Art in Romania from 1989 to 1990. For many years, he has been engaged in scholarly research on the painting techniques of Old Masters and received his doctorate in this field from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2023. He lives and works in Vienna.

“My work always begins with trying to find answers to the questions that life asks me. In the end, you don’t get answers, but paintings that show the efforts to find these answers. My paintings are born from the observation of our society, are reflections, comments, visions, emerged from reality and are thought to have a retroactive effect on reality, how once was the magic. The pictures must don’t be too illustrative, although the forms appear realistic. I definitively don’t want that my paintings are based just on pretty colours and effects. Each picture must tell a story, very symbolically and generally, should don’t be associated with any place, era, or man or woman. The paintings are simply meant to represent the human soul.”