ROMEO IONESCU

Since his apparition ,“ The Human “ was worried and braked because of questions of existence and because of  his mission on Earth …..“ Where he comes from ? “..… “Who is he ? “ ...…”Where he goes ? “ ……” Why he was born and why he dies ? ”……’’ Why doesn’t he stay forever  young ? “

Questions about life and death , love and incident , all searched for the answer more or less explicit and proper, based on condition , time ,age and epoch ….. And when the answer didn’t come , letting  itself  waited so long then ”THE SIGN “ was born …...For “ someone “ , a passerby in his way , to search and find the answer ..…

Then “ the sign “ became “ A SYMBOL“ ……and so we can say that “ART” was born…...From that it was started by a long series of searches and kneadings ,testings and expression  transformations, reaching in the end an endless variety of style, conception and  expression, onset and interpretation.

Those beginnings were searched by all great artists , as “ a living essence “ for a message to eternity….. Those messages and those beginnings, here and to the life, I'm looking for them .....in a braked foraging ,pure and sincere of "image" . All these images  garment the quotidian , age and time, but they are the same for thousands of years ... We are others, we are changed and over us the future generations will try to interpret “the messages “ and the forms of expression.

For me, and for my art , love, luck and joy, warmth and light, is a creed no matter of the situation and I will never stop “harnessing” them .

If it would be necessary to speak about me from an artistic point of view  I would say :

“ Preoccupied by the problems of genesis and of the man’s purpose in the world , by the abyss but also by the ontological zenith ,the artist ( Romeo Ionescu )doesn’t evade the capital interrogations .He has a personal point of view on the world beginnings and doesn’t hesitate  to visualize the primordial horizon where ,  in  Plato’s version ,the androgynous myth was confined. From this to the Cucuteni plastic art with its anthropomorphous statuettes and the idols of a rudimentary cult , the way was direct and profitable .The Cucuteni quotation is integrated on its decorative side and used in the sense of valorizing the great refinement drawing .The totem ,the image of labyrinth and of meander give coherence to a direction that is intelligent through option and remarkable through performance.The old graphies have the chance of becoming cultural archetypes.”

 Romeo Ionescu, Romania