LONDON INTENATIONAL CREATIVE COMPETITION
2025 – CREATE (ART)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
LONDON, UK
OVERTURE
painting by Alexandru Crișan 2024
acrylic painting on paper, pentaptych
360 x 102cm / (102 x 72cm) x 5, 600 gsm paper, satin varnish
Entropy is not always a swan song. Looking at it (and its crude, corny cameo in one’s life) dead in the eye may set artists either to sink into sedentary sedation or to stride their own amok. Part of the B Sides series, this work is about a quantifiable sunrise.
(Appendix) In my mind – therefore in my hands I was absorbed by heartbeats, as Beethoven’s 9th was playing in the background… just try to tear it apart, break it down, rotate the pieces and you’ll have the 9th Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven instead of a sunset on the shore of a lake.
Artist Bio
Alexandru Crișan (b. Bucharest, Romania 1978) is a visual artist interested in the existential complementarity of objective and nonobjective forms of expression. As far as the latter is to be unpacked, his “counter-professional” career in photography began in 2008; his paintings stand, for almost three decades, as the most intimate, borderline atavistic, acts of divulgence. Assuming that taxonomy is of any consequence, he is partial to fine-art photography and Abstract Expressionism. The eclectic nature of his projects is, therefore, a given. Crișan’s works have been presented in over a dozen international exhibitions, have been published in over 50 peer-reviewed magazines, have received over 500 international awards and nominations, and are part of several privately owned collections and art galleries. More on: https://alexandru-crisan.com/
LICC (London) page: https://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=2-37178-25&OS=true
Overture artwork page: https://alexandru-crisan.com/projects/overture-s/
Entropy project page: https://alexandru-crisan.com/projects/entropy/