False Salvator Mundi
2022–2024 · Oil on linen · 206 × 257 cm
2022–2024 · Oil on linen · 206 × 257 cm
Hyperrealism is not the destination. It is the mechanism through which an image becomes convincing enough to be questioned.

A monumental portrait is constructed in full, physically erased at the face, materially preserved in glass and rewritten through painted pseudo-code. The project brings salvation, environmental anxiety and contemporary systems of identity into the same unstable image.

Romanian contemporary painter based in Cluj-Napoca, working across hyperrealism, figurative and conceptual oil painting.
About the artist ↗Realism is used as a critical method to test the authority of images, identity and perception.
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