Beach culture in Bercsényi

HEAD Magazine issue 49 is now online

2007-09-18T12:48:00.001+02:00

My painting was selected for octomber issue of HEAD Magazine.

HEAD Magazine is an online publication designed to showcase the creative
talents of established and emerging visual artists from all over the world.
HEAD Magazine was founded in 2003 by Steve Kraitt and Nicolene Hannan, and
provides an editorial and advertising-free platform for exhibiting the work of
photographers, artists, illustrators and designers.

Upsidedown

2007-09-18T12:37:00.000+02:00

upsidedown oil on canvas, 90X120 cm, 2007

They put me on TrendsNow

2007-06-19T00:24:00.000+03:00

TrendsNow est un site d'actualité axé sur les tendances, le design, le graphisme, la mode et l'innovation conçu avec une plateforme Pro de Typepad. Thank you and bone chance!

Back view

2007-06-12T21:23:00.000+03:00

back view, acrylic on canvas, 90X120 cm, 2007

me in marc3art

2007-06-12T21:13:00.000+03:00

Wrong leaves

2007-06-12T20:02:00.000+03:00

wrong leaves, acrylic on canvas, 90X120 cm, 2006

Greenisgood

2007-06-12T19:39:00.000+03:00

green is good, acrylic on canvas, 90X120 cm, 2007

My paintings at Lost At E Minor

2007-06-10T22:09:00.000+03:00

Lost At E Minor is a website and weekly email newsletter that sources out and features music, illustration, art, photography and pop culture from around the world. It’s the product of a collaboration between brothers Zac and Zolton Zavos and Andy Howard. thankx! you guys are extraordinary!

My paintings at Art MoCo

2007-06-07T00:57:00.000+03:00

Art MoCo is a great place to find information in contemporary art. This week they spotlighted my paintings. You must enter to see all the collection.

Art MoCo is a shot of modern contemporary art designed to make your day a little more esthetically pleasing. Painting, photography, sculpture will be just a few of the media examined by Art MoCo, but look also for art happenings, events, and spaces. There'll be fashion, design and pop culture thrown into the mix and shaken up for a real MoCo cocktail of art. Your daily art fix will give you a little something to look at with your eyes, and maybe even your mind.

my blogs on Eclectic Cow

2007-05-26T17:56:00.000+03:00

Eclectic Cow >>> Daily selection of: Contemporary Art Graphic Design Illustration Photography Music & Sounds New media Crossovers Bucharest Happening. And a very good one. Must see entire site.

Thank you Eclectic Cow.

Wrong cab

2007-05-20T13:05:00.000+03:00

Wrong cab, acrylic on canvas, 90X120 cm, 2006

Car chase scene

2007-05-19T21:28:00.000+03:00

Car chase scene, acrylic on canvas, 90X120 cm, 2005

Perfect day for swimming

2007-05-15T10:32:00.000+03:00

Perfect day for swimming, acrylic on canvas, 110X120 cm, 2005

Spending your mid-life crisis on the beach

2007-05-15T10:25:00.000+03:00

Spending your mid-life crisis on the beach acrylic on canvas 100X250 cm 2006

Beach culture in Bercsényi

2007-05-12T14:48:00.000+03:00

Berceni is a district (quarter, cartier in Romanian) of Bucharest . Berceni este un cartier situat în sectorul 4 al Bucureştiului. The hussars of Bercsényi were first mentioned after the suppression of the Hungarian Kuruc War led by Francis II Rákóczi (at beginning of the 18th century). They settled in the neighborhood of Bucharest. The 4th district of Bucharest is located in the southern part of the capital city, at 26° 5'45'' eastern longitude, 44° 24'49" northern latitude. 25 km2 of its total 32 km2 is built-up area (capital's total is 228 km2), and it has a population of 335,000 out of the capital's 2,027,512.

If we take the density of the population, the 4th district exceeds some of the economically most important municipalities like Bacău (population: 209,689), Braşov (317,772), Brăila (234,648), Craiova (312,891), Oradea (223.288), Ploieşti (253.414), Râmnicu-Vâlcea (119.340), Târgu Mureş (165,534), and it is a little beyond Constanţa (344,876), Cluj-Napoca (332,792), Galaţi (331,360), Iaşi (348,399) and Timişoara (334,098). Primaria sectorului 4

In his paintings Nicolae Comanescu makes the switch from the flâneur to the beachcomber.

His hatted characters may look like the legendary gentlemen stroller of the streets, but his demeanor is more accustomed to the heat waves, crime waves and the usual surf of daily life in Berceni. Berceni is a neighborhood in the Southern city of Bucharest. The pedestrian environment is not appropriate anymore. In the summer the streets become more and more beach like. The dust of the plains becomes the sand of the Bucharest concrete jungle.

Drifting is still an option, better still you can start to gather all the driftwood that comes your way. Driftwood in the form of colors, heat, car lights and car mirror reflecting each other in a frenzy.

Nicolae Comanescu is deeply immersed in a Bucharest cityscape drenched in giant billboards, beauty product ads, giant blockbuster posters and luxury cars transformed into furnaces by the 12' o’clock sun and traffic jams. Historical cross-overs push the Great Age of Geographic Discoveries into the present age of the Las Vegas-style maritime extravaganza. Eastern Europeans are the last wave of tourist exploring island paradises. They where the last wave hit by cheap flights, a rise in corporate salaries, and agencies with special offers to Thailand, Greece and Spain. The modern “reconquista” of Spain entails that a lot of the best European beaches are slowly being conquered by tourists (or emigrants) from Poland or Romania.

The Romanian Black Sea resorts are always too full, too expensive and galore with bad service and bad vibes. That is why you must choose between going en masse to Bulgaria or staying in Bucharest, sun-bathing in the chocked traffic and the melting asphalt. A lot the recent paintings by Nicolae Comanescu act as heat maps. The cars and characters suffer under severe sunburns, sensitive to the tropical set up of a city grounded in the bed of an ancient Sea.

Waiting for the rains to come. And when they come, the whole city gets submerged. People knee-deep in water and sewers spilling over like fountains are here to stay. A Water World scenario were you have to change your skate board for a surf board. Berceni becomes then a lagoon. A lagoon where beachcombers like Nicolae Comanescu start wearing their Hawaiian shirt and Panama hats.

Spending your mid-life crisis on the beach

2007-05-10T22:59:00.000+03:00

Spending your mid-life crisis on the beach oil on canvas 90X120 cm 2006

Spending your mid-life crisis on the beach

2007-05-09T03:51:00.000+03:00

Spending your mid-life crisis on the beach acrylic on canvas 100X250 cm 2007

Spending your mid-life crisis on the beach

2007-05-09T03:35:00.000+03:00

Spending your mid-life crisis on the beach

acrylic on canvas 100X250 cm 2007

Tzutzimutzi

2007-05-09T02:51:00.000+03:00

Tzutzimutzi acrylic on canvas 110X120 cm 2004

Cora

2007-05-09T02:37:00.000+03:00

Cora acrylic on canvas 55X60 cm 2007

Leaning on the car

2007-05-09T02:32:00.000+03:00

Leaning on the car acrylic on canvas 110X120 cm 2005

A drive

2007-05-09T02:20:00.000+03:00

A drive acrylic on canvas 50X100 cm 2007

Wrong zebra

2007-05-09T00:33:00.000+03:00

Wrong zebra

acrylic on canvas 55X60 cm 2007

On road

2007-05-08T23:52:00.000+03:00

On road acrylic on canvas 90X120 cm 2007

Wrong city

2007-05-08T23:30:00.000+03:00

Wrong city

acrylic on canvas 90X120 cm 2007