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Fragmenta Deorum I
by Alexandru Crisan

FRAGMENTA DEORUM proposes a contemporary archaeology of the mythic body. In this series, Alexandru Crișan – architect, artist, and image-maker – constructs a visual language that fractures and reconstitutes the divine. The works do not illustrate mythology; they excavate it. They treat the classical canon not as a stable heritage but as a malleable archive, one that can be decomposed, recomposed, multiplied, and dreamt anew. Classical sculpture is repeatedly dismantled into micro-fragments, then reorganized through symmetrical lattices, pareidolic structures, and architectural matrices. Crișan’s approach mirrors the analytical processes of architectural drawing, where form is disassembled into its operative parts and then reconstructed in pursuit of spatial revelation. Yet here the reconstruction resists completion. Instead of coherence, the viewer encounters a controlled destabilization: bodies that echo, multiply, dissolve, and re-emerge in new configurations. What remains constant is the sense of a divine presence that has been shattered but not destroyed—a pantheon redistributed across the image surface. At the core of FRAGMENTA DEORUM is a tension between recognition and uncertainty. The images are engineered to provoke pareidolia: the perceptual impulse to find faces, limbs, gestures, or symbolic forms within ambiguous or repetitive structures. This semiotic instability is intentional. Crișan invites the viewer to become the interpreter, the excavator, the dreamer. In these works, meaning is not given; it is activated through looking. The divine becomes a field of potential readings rather than a fixed iconographic reference. (…)

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Artist Bio/CV

Alexandru Crișan (b. Bucharest, Romania 1978) is a visual artist interested in the existential complementarity of objective and nonobjective forms of expression. To resolve the former, he is an architect. 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. His photography is a direct result of compulsive visual disquisitions on impromptu portraiture, architectural equivocations, parametric manipulations, “hybrid storytelling” and evocative conservationism. Crișan’s works have been presented in over 50 international exhibitions, have been published in over 100 peer-reviewed magazines, have received over 500 international awards and nominations, and are part of several privately owned collections and art galleries.