Doina Reghis Ionescu
Critical References
Radu Ciobanu, exhibition catalogue - 1996
The artist is in control of a universe that is defined by perpetual vitality expressed in the infinity of forms and facets of vegetation – rhythms, explosions, germination, flowers – which insinuate themselves even in the dreamlike or conceptual canvases. The common denominator of all these compositions created with laborious meticulousness and undisguised passion of plastic expression is that capacity to observe and interpret, which – as Rouault used to say, helps you “be able to store the forms and harmonies that you see every day, to get used to know them better, to end up playing with them”. With a virtuoso design which makes us think of that horror vacui of artists of other times, distributing her plastic elements in masterfully balanced rhythms, frequenting a range of colours balanced and calm, these works recommend an authentic artist whose original vision harmoniously coexists with the respect for the technical tradition.
Exhibition catalogue - 1998
Radu Ionescu: "the artist is a nostalgic soul. She is nostalgic for that nature which is pure, elegant in its sumptuousness, diverse and tonic. Perhaps this is why, in her paintings, we uncover the instinctive closeness to Art Nouveau, the exuberant times of dancing lines, half plants, half imagination, all drawn with elegance and a confident hand. Chromatic strictness and roughness acts as a reminder of her monumentalist background, and so does the generous and aerated composition, seemingly flowing unhindered through an indefinite space."
"FAMILIA" Magazine - Issue No. 5, Oradea, 1999
Aurel Chiriac: "the artist's latest works represent a good opportunity to bring into focus her particular interest towards vegetal forms as a priority, but also towards living forms belonging to the Lepidoptera order (butterflies), or to the Gasteropods' species (snails), to which she assigns symbolic meanings. Upon careful study, the artworks turned into savvily constructed plastic expressivities; they get placed on a canvas where the minutious graphics of the compositions contribute to emphasizing the feeling of order and existential stillness. The feeling of tranquillity is also boosted by the mostly calm and discreet composition of monochrome backgrounds, which help us clearly individualize the outlines".
Exhibition catalogue - 2003
Mircea Batca: "starting from natural structures, dominated by the regularly organized vegetal ones, the artist considers the motif as a secret she discovers and later recodifies, so that it loses its initial meaning, but gains the significance she wants to offer it instead. Consequently, without practising abstract painting, the artist abandons any responsibility whatsoever towards the initial motif, her works essentially suggesting a semantic issue of the chosen language, a mental reinterpretation of a "familiar landscape" data, as well as maintaining visual continuity, beyond the stylistic barrier. The composition of her works has been conceived broadly, generously, organically, following obvious or dissimulated lines of strength, which gives the painting a monumental aura, regardless of its size."
Publication „Concordii cu artiști si expoziții”, author Ioan Iovan, Timișoara, 2006, p. 245-246
Ioan Iovan: "...any of the works belonging to these cycles can be transposed into a monumental arts technique, such as mosaic or mural painting, stained glass or sgraffito, ironwork, or ceramics panel. Decorativism gives quality to colours and confidence to lines. Chromatics create environments, backgrounds of a rich functionality, somehow with a specifically fulfilled expectation for a particular type of line. Over these purposefully prepared chromatic spaces, lines draw their mellow trajectories and rhythmicity. The author initiates image digressions which are equally directed towards symmetry and asymmetry, the rhythm being the immediate compositional beneficiary. A sound knowledge of chromatic transparencies and an equally sound knowledge of linear expressiveness cause the avid esoterism of the signs to be tamed by a quiet sensitivity.
Enciclopedia artistilor romani contemporani (Romanian Artists' Encyclopaedia), Vol. 5, 2000, p. 171
Negoiță Lăptoiu: "being specialized in the secrets of monumental arts at the relevant Bucharest Academy will leave its mark on the vision and style structure, which is noticeable in the cult for formal discipline, in the refined and discreet chromatism, of precious fresco and medieval embroidery heritage, in the slender and suggestive rhythm of the motives which interfere with one another, affirming their presence in logically articulated compositions, animated by deep meanings on a universal echoes scale...the artist creates prompt and animated reliefs of a symbolic meaning and charge, so that the recent images materialize strong volumetrics in the spirit of a vision of a monumental and synthesizing vision."
Resume
Painter and artist, creator of monumental work
Date and place of birth: - Born on 9 September 1951 in Ineu, Arad County.
Education:
Fine arts high school, Timisoara, class teachers: Constantin Flondor, Stefan Bertalan, Szakacs Bella.
“Nicolae Grigorescu” Fine Arts Institute, Bucharest, Department of Monumental Painting, class professor Vasile Celmare.
Specialized studies:
1976 - 1977 – Specialization scholarship in monumental art
2004 – Expert of the Ministry of Culture and Cults in goods with artistic significance
2008 – Doctor in visual arts; doctorate thesis with the title: “INSIGNIAS” – Customising an architectural space by creating a work of art monumental
Member of the Visual Artists Union of Romania – department of painting.
Prizes and distinctions:
2005 – Nomination for the U.A.P. of Romania prizes– Painting
2000 - Artistic prize– Zalaegerszeg (Hungary)
2011 – “The FORM” prize for her entire body of work, awarded by U.A.P. of Romania - Deva branch
2014 – Civic distinction “Honorary Citizen” of the Deva municipality
Personal exhibitions
1998 – Bucharest - Slovakian Embassy
1998 – Deva - Forma Gallery
1999 – Oradea - Museum of the Cris Country
2002 – Cluj-Napoca - National Art Museum
2004 – Brasov - Art Museum
2005 – Timisoara – “Helios” art gallery
2007 – Deva – “Forma” art gallery
2007 – Timisoara – Administrative palace– “Sign, symbol, significance”
2009 – Deva – “Forma” art gallery
2009 – Hunedoara - Art gallery
2011 – Timisoara – Art Museum – “60”
2011 – Deva – “Forma” art gallery – “60”
2012 – Deva - Art Theatre – “Symbol of the soul”
2012 – Bucharest – “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum– “Chromatic harmonies”
2013 – Sibiu – Brukenthal National Museum– “Sign, symbol, significance”
2012 – Deva – Art Theatre – “Symbol of the soul”
2012 – Bucharest – “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum – “Chromatic harmonies”
2013 – Sibiu – Brukenthal National Museum –Brukenthal Palace, “Sign, symbol, significance”
National and international exhibitions
1984 – Bucharest –National Art Salon
1997 – Resita –International Art Salon
1998 – Resita – International Art Salon
1998 – Arras (France) – Exhibition of visual artists of Hunedoara
2000 – Zalaegerszeg (Hungary) –International Exhibition of Visual Arts
2001 – Budapesta – International Exhibition of Visual Arts
2001 – Bucharest – National Art Salon
2001 – Arad –International Drawing Biennale
2003 – Arad – International Drawing Biennale
2003 – Arras (France) – Spring salon
2005 – Arad – International Drawing Biennale
2006 – Bucharest – National Art Salon
2008 – Bucharest – Cotroceni National Museum– National Salon of Decorative Art
2009 – Bucharest – Cotroceni National Museum– National Salon of Decorative Art
2009 – Piatra Neamt – “Lascar Vorel” National Biennale of Visual Arts
2010 – Bucharest – Cotroceni National Museum– National Salon of Decorative Art
2011 – Bucharest – Cotroceni National Museum– National Salon of Decorative Art
2011 – Ramnicu Valcea – National Salon of Art Contemporary
2011 – Piatra Neamt - “Lascar Vorel” National Biennale of Visual Arts
2011 – Bucharest –National Salon of Romanian Graphics
2011 – Galati –Contemporary Art Museum - Annual National Salon of Drawing
2011 – Arad – International Biennale “Meeting Point 2011” – 3rd edition
2011 – Iasi – Art Gallery - “Romanian Graphics 2011”
2012 – Aiud - Intercontinental Biennale of Small Graphics
2012 – Bucharest – “Art House” - “Romanian Graphics 2012”
2012 – Bucharest – Cotroceni National Museum– National Salon of Decorative Art
2012 – Buzau – Art Gallery – “Ion Andreescu” National Biennale
2012 – Arad –International Biennale of Small Graphics
2012 – Targoviste – History Museum – “Gheorghe Petrascu” Fine Art Biennale
2013 – Chisinau –National Art Museum of Moldova – National Salon of Decorative Art
2013 – Deva – “Forma” Art Gallery– National Salon of Decorative Art
2013 – Bucharest – Art House –National Salon – “Romanian Graphics”
2013 – Bucharest – Cotroceni National Museum– National Salon of Decorative Art
2014 – Chisinau – National Art Museum of Moldova – National Salon of Decorative Art
2014 – Chisinau – National Art Museum of Moldova – National Salon “Romanian Graphics”
2014 – Sozopol – Archaeology Museum –Cotroceni Decorative Art Salon
2014 – Bucharest – Art House – National Salon “Romanian Graphics”
2014 – Bucharest – Cotroceni National Museum– National Salon of Decorative Art
2014 – Vienna – Five Plus Art Gallery - “Sommerfeeling” Exhibition
2015 – Chisinau – National Art Museum of Moldova – National Salon of Decorative Art
2015 – Arad –International Biennale of Small Graphics
2015 – Braila- “Carol I” Braila Museum - International Salon of Small Visual Arts
2015 – Vienna – Five Plus Art Gallery – Anniversary exhibition –“Present Continuous”
County and group exhibitions (selection)
1980 -1984 – within the branch of the U.A.P.- Sibiu – participant in fine art Salons in the county
1985 - 2009 – within the branch of the U.A.P.- Deva – participant in fine art Salons in the county
1982 – Cluj-Napoca – Fine arts exhibition
1986 – Valea Jiului – Fine arts exhibition
1986 - Baia Mare – Fine arts exhibition
1987 – Arad – Fine arts exhibition
2002 – Quimper, Briec, Ergue-Gaberic, Plomelin, Ploneis, Saint Evarzec (France) – “Romanian painters from Hunedoara” exhibition
2004 – Mainz (Germany) – Dome Square Hall – Exhibition of Romanian painting and sculpture
2006 – Timisoara – “Helios” Art Gallery – Summer salon of visual arts
2006 – Timisoara –Administrative Palace - “Maternity – source of life”- arts visual exhibition
2007 – Timisoara – “Helios” Art Gallery - Annual salon of visual arts
2007 – Timisoara – Administrative Palace – Exhibition “The way – route, movement, dynamism”
2007 – Deva – “Forma” Art Gallery - Annual salon of visual arts
2008 – Timisoara – Art Museum - Annual salon of visual arts
2008 – Deva – Annual salon of visual arts
2009 - Timisoara – “Helios” Art Gallery – “The absurd in the visual arts”
2009 – Timisoara – Administrative Palace - “The celestial bodies, the cosmos and visual arts”
2009 – Budapest – Romanian Cultural Institute - “The absurd in the visual arts”
2009 – Szeged – Romanian Cultural Institute - “The absurd in the visual arts”
2009 – Timisoara – “Helios” Art Gallery – “20 years since the Revolution Romanian commemorated by visual artists from Timisoara
2009 – Budapest – “20 years since the Revolution Romanian commemorated by visual artists from Timisoara”
2009 – Timisoara – Art Museum - Visual Arts Salon 2009
2009 – Deva – Annual salon of visual arts 2009
2010 – Targu-Jiu – Art Museum - “The neighbours”- Salon of visual arts of Hunedoara
2010 – Bucharest – Romanian Parliament–C. Brancusi Hall – Anniversary exhibition “Time”
2010 – Szeged – University – Exhibition “The celestial bodies, the cosmos and visual arts”
2010 – Satu Mare – County Museum - “Micul Print” happening exhibition
2010 – Timisoara – Administrative Palace– Jubilee exhibition “Water and turbine – Symbolic significance”
2010 – Brussels – European Parliament– “Europe in my heart” exhibition
2010 – Timisoara – Art Museum – Visual Arts Salon 2010
2010 – Hunedoara – Art Gallery – Winter salon 2010
2010 – Deva – “Forma” Art Gallery– Visual Arts Salon 2010
2011 – Deva – Art Theatre – Visual Arts Salon
2011 - Ramnicu Valcea – “Still life” exhibition
2011 – Satu Mare – County Museum – “Micul Print” happening exhibition
2011 – Timisoara – Administrative Palace – “Fruits of the Tree of Desire” Exhibition
2011- Timisoara – Administrative Palace – “The bee – Symbol of diligence and thrift” exhibition
2011 – Zrenjanin (Serbia) – National Museum – “Fruits of the Tree of Desire” Exhibition
2011 – Deva – “Forma” Gallery – Visual Arts Salon of Hunedoara 2011
2012 – Bucharest – National Museum of History of Romania – “Rewritten histories” exhibition
2012 – Satu Mare – Art Museum – “Micul Print” - happening exhibition
2012 – Deva – “Forma” Gallery – Visual Arts Salon - “Grey as form”
2012 – Deva – “Forma” Gallery – Visual Arts Salon - “Light”
2013 – Hunedoara – Art Gallery– Visual Arts Salon of Hunedoara
2013 – Bucharest – National Library – “M. Eminescu” commemorative exhibition - Book-Object
2013 – Deva –CDR Museum – “facets of femininity” exhibition
2013 – Deva – “Forma” Gallery - “Cherchez la femme”
2013 – Deva –CDR Museum - Magna Curia Palace – “Landscape incursions” Exhibition
2013 – Deva – “Forma” Gallery – “Glissando” Visual Arts Salon of Hunedoara
2014 – Ramnicu Valcea –Art Gallery – “Signs of spring” Exhibition
2014 – Vienna – Five Plus Art Gallery, “Sommerfeeling” Exhibition of painting and graphics
2014 – Bistrita Nasaud –Arcade Gallery - Group exhibition of artists from Hunedoara
2014 – Deva – Gallery “Forma” – “Emergent” Annual Visual Arts Salon of Hunedoara
Monumental art works
2010 – Deva – “Insignias”- Collection of parietal painting (dim: 900 X 250cm) – the work was done in mixed technique and decorates the central hall of the building that houses the Prefecture and the Hunedoara County Council.
Works in the custody of certain public institutions in the country
Bucharest - Slovakian Embassy
Sibiu – Brukenthal National Museum –Brukenthal Palace
Oradea – Art Collection - Museum of the Cris Country
Cluj-Napoca - National Art Museum
Brasov – Art Museum
Galati – Contemporary Visual Art Museum
Timisoara –U.A.P. branch, Timis County Council
Timisoara – Art Museum
Deva – Casa casatoriilor (Marriage Offices)
Deva – Art Collection of the Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilisation
Deva – County Directorate of Culture, Cults and National Cultural Heritage
Deva –Hunedoara County Council
Deva –Deva City Hall
Deva –Hunedoara County Prefecture
Aiud – Collection of the Foundation
Deva - Aqualand
Works in private collections in the country and abroad
Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj Napoca, Sibiu, Brasov, Oradea, Deva, Hunedoara.
Canada, Italy, Germany, France, Hungary, England, Slovakia, Austria.
Professional activity:
1979 – 1984 – curator – Art department, at the Brukenthal National Museum - Sibiu
1985 – 1990 – Deva – Clothing designer–U.J.C.M. creation workshop
1990 – 2005 – Deva - Curator, Head of Art Department – Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilisation of Deva.
During the period 2004 – 2006 –interim president of the Deva branch of U.A.P.
2005 – 2010 – Curator. During the period 1990 – 2010 I have organized a series of temporary exhibitions and I have participated in numerous scientific sessions; the communications presented have been subsequently published in specialty publications.
Studies published in the volume:
In 2005, the launch of an anniversary album “Art – 1955 – 2005”, Deva branch of the Visual Artists Union of Romania celebrating half a century of existence.
In 2009, the scientific endeavour undertaken in the Padureni Country has materialized in the publication of an art album entitled “Sacred and profane at Hunedoara’s Padureni”.
In 2011, the Brukenthal National Museum of Sibiu published my book “Monumental art, concept and becoming”; the volume presented the evolution and significance of monumental painting within the context of universal art.