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Maxim Liulca

Maxim Liulca

„Ich bin das Bild und das Wort …“ Maxim Liulca

The history of abstraction was made by individuals as well as movements. It would have been inconceivable without the fervent embrace of innovation in the early twentieth century. The first artists who experimented with abstract forms primarily strove to overcome the prevailing bourgeois conception of art. The abstract tendency that erupted in traditional art almost like a revolution has remained integral to art and is now widely accepted as a counterweight to figuration.

The works of Maxim Liulca (b. Tighina, Moldova, 1987; lives and works in Cluj, Romania) reflect his rigorous but recognizably affectionate critical thinking. At first glance, his paintings might be taken for old Romanian carpets. But the sources of his motifs range from folkloric Romanian fabrics to 1970s geometric wallpapers, from Dada to Russian Constructivism. Liulca combines pseudo-narrative, equivocal, demotic styles with pop culture or geometric patterns, as the case may be.

This book, which includes a conversation between Maxim Liulca and Sorin Neamtu and a poem by Joseph Brodsky, is the artist’s first monograph.