Cristina Movileanu - first exhibition, show culture today

Cristina Movileanu is at her first personal exposition, was born on the 29th of May 1987, in Kishinev. In 1998 she graduated the “Alexei Stîrcea” school of arts; In 2006 the “Igor Vieru” Republican High school of Plastic Arts; and in 2010 she graduated the Plastic Arts College, the graphic department, the Music Theatre and Plastic Arts Academy from the Republic of Moldova. She is a probationer member of the Plastic Artists Union of the Republic of Moldova. This is my first personal exhibition and I am very happy that cherished people came here to support me, it is exactly what I have wished for. I have been planning this for a long time and I hope I have managed to do what I have wanted to. I think graphics is a unique specialty, it is very refined, it is delicate and it has always attracted me. Actually, I am also attracted to painting, but I enjoy watercolor and engraving very much and here at the exhibition I have watercolor paintings and engravings in the main hall. Professionally, she is a very well prepared young woman, she has graduated a good school and she has a very thoughtful attitude towards everything she does. She is not flirting with fashion like some do, especially at the beginning, but to their own disservice, of course. Graphics and watercolor paintings are exposed at this exhibition. She is also trying to do printed graphics, I see plastic hand carving and aquatint and other techniques too at this exhibition. We also find watercolor paintings in this hall. I want to mention that watercolor is a very pretentious technique, very delicate and at the same time not easy to work with. And here she presents us beautiful works and very transparent, luminous works. This gladdens us because she is an illustrator who is going to do easel graphics and book illustration too, as after this exhibition we realize that this towards what she is going to. And I hope that she is going to step further away just the way she started, especially that her father was also a very good aquarellist and probably she has some guidance from there too, this can be felt. I am very close to my father because we were very close in spirit and in our hearts. He was everything to me, he was like a stronghold, like a model. After he had passed away and had gone into the nothingness, I walked into his workshop and I saw so many papers, so many watercolors, so many brushes… and I basically took the paper and a pencil and I started painting without even realizing it. I have reckoned that someone must indeed carry on what my father had started. Because he had had so many ideas and so many beautiful dreams that he had not managed to accomplish. I believe that for an artist a lifetime is a very short time to accomplish all the ideas that he or she has. Taking into account that for 4 years I had been next to her as a mentor (as a specialty teacher) I can say with my whole certitude that this generation, the young people of 20 to 25 years old, are, with some small exceptions of course, extraordinary and they orientate themselves very well in all the aspects of life regarding the situation we are in. They create themselves those role models that are not at all like the models we got used to. And maybe you, our beloved visitors and viewers, have noticed that with this mind frame her paintings include as subject a very well balanced interior peace, still life, landscapes, subjects that give the viewer a harmonious attitude towards what surrounds us. And another side of this generation that I would like to mention is this: the solidity of their education, the solidity of the study. Cristina has gone through the entire schooling cycle from pre-school to academic and she has shown a serious attitude towards the study, towards the occupation she has chosen. And I hope and I am convinced that the lessons she took during high school and college are certainly going to help her to accomplish herself as an artist and as a citizen of our beloved country, the Republic of Moldova. I was coming here with emotion, I was coming as if I had to tell something about his daughter to the regretted Vasile Movileanu. I am telling you that before I arrived here I could not pronounce even one word and the reason behind it was that this young woman had surprised me with her diversity and her way of seeing things. She has her own philosophy, a philosophy in research. She knows how to beautifully unify this bridge that leads from tradition towards the new, the undiscovered, towards the modernism. All I want to say is that I wish you to remain just as clean in the face of art as you are now. Beyond the creation you will do and give to the world, keep persevering in personal masterpieces too. Because they are the ones that carry on just as you are the continuer of your father who loved the world very much, loved nature very much and this city. As I have once said, he had known how to make musical sounds, as I have never seen anyone before who could make the colors dance. I like contemporary painters very much, especially Chinese aquarelle, which is excellent. I get my inspiration from everywhere and I try to see the beauty in everything. When I am walking down the street I am trying to notice what others maybe do not notice and I am trying to reproduce that in my paintings. The first personal exposition will always remain the first one. The artist will always keep in her memory these unrepeatable moments from which she starts her own path and her own destiny in the land of art. May it be with good luck.