On Thursday, July 3, 2025, the graphic art exhibition titled True Stories, belonging to the plastic artist Cristian Sima, will be opened in the Contemporary Art Hall of the Golești Museum. He was born on January 13, 1956, in the city of Craiova.
He has participated in dozens of personal and group exhibitions, creative camps and symposiums. He is a graduate of the National University of Arts- Bucharest and a member of the Union of Plastic Artists- Vâlcea Branch.
About the Golești exhibition, Cristian Sima says:
“I have always felt connected to history, fascinated by that idea that transcends time, that the past is what gave us the future. I also see history as an exhibition of paintings made up of paintings varied in theme and subject, like a book with “true stories”, one of my favorite subjects. On this model, the name of the Golești people ennobles the vast fresco of a brilliant era of Wallachia, and the fact that I was allowed to insert into it the modest images I created honors me and fills me with joy and pride.”
About the artist, art critic Iolanda Malamen states: “Cristian Sima is an author whose scriptural consistency has generated over the decades an imaginary triggering experiences and projections between the real and the unreal. Imprinted, stored in the subconscious, they were projected into a conscious that reconstructs them, making them functional, forming a strange morphology often crossed by an “anecdotal” pulse. This surrealism loaded and irrigated with symbols has something of the stillness and automatism of photography. Privileged by a professional hand, he found his release from the anguish of the subconscious through a kind of sometimes playful handling, other times crossed by the capricious persistence of memory. In Cristian Sima, the aura of dreams crossed the border of the dream and gave birth to intonations of a subtle lyricism in the human being, in a state of purification of matter. The artist forced himself, starting from various elements of memory its cultural values, its own humanity, projecting itself into it with sensitivity, without excess language and without feverish combustions.”
The exhibition can be visited until September 14, 2025.
We look forward to seeing you!
Curator: Museum Designer Nicoleta Popa Grigore.
