SOLO EXHIBITION
SOLO EXHIBITION
SOLO EXHIBITION
The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
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The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Elena
Aldea
ROMANIA
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“Sometimes beauty is not always my ultimate goal. Bizarre art and strange ideas are often treated in my works.”
Elena Aldea was born and raised in Transylvania, a beautiful region of Romania. She thinks there are few who have not heard of it. She lives in Brasov, a town first historically attested in 1235. Elena learned art on her own. But she didn't feel the weight of this process even though she didn't have anyone in her family or close friends with such a passion, because she simply liked working with images.
The beauty of flowers has always been comparable to the beauty of women. So I created a woman who is a flower, both equally beautiful, both equally delicate.
Slowly she set out on the road. At first, she used to copy others, then taking inspiration from others and finally getting to the stage where she started to create, her mind becoming the most powerful tool in everything she does. She wouldn't say she has worked on demand very much. Often these demands are conditioned by various factors. So, she preferred to work for herself.
Women can be as beautiful as dolls, but they can also be broken. And sometimes the brokenness of the soul shows on the skin. The bigger the break, the greater the pain. The greater the pain, the harder the pain heals.
The oldest documented forms of art are visual arts. That includes images or objects in fields like painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media. For Elena, artistic photography is the way she can express herself artistically. She prefers fine art, portraits, surrealism and black and white art. Her artworks are treated various artistic or minimalist subjects, with human or animal subjects.
“I want my works to identify and portray feelings and feelings that we all go through sooner or later.”
Combining a variety of photographic and digital techniques she can take her audience into a magical journey into the depths of her nature and creativity. She can take people into the depths of her mind where creativity transcends the conventional and surrealism creates stories, people would like to live in. A colorless flower, a lonely flamingo in a pink sunset, a faceless naked woman, an eyeless lady, represent one state of her mind at a time.
“This state of mind and sometimes of soul represents each of us at one time or another. We may not be aware of it but in our intimacy, we can recognize it and identify with what I create.”
Buying art can be difficult, but in the end most people will buy what they feel is right for them and the space in which the artwork will be displayed. Despite the seemingly indefinable nature of art, there have always existed certain formal guidelines for its aesthetic judgment and analysis.
Tea time is an enchanted composition. In a timeless space the balance is very fragile. All creatures must find their way to harmony. The perfection of time is hard to achieve, easy to lose and especially fleeting. But if it can, it must surely be immortalized.
“My limits have no limits because a good composition is created with the ability to see the possibility of an outstanding image, and use all the tools to create a final piece of artwork.”
Austerity and sobriety are typical of times long gone. The severity of the faces as well as the rigour of those times fascinates us. And although we would not like to relive them, it is a pleasure to take a look where we are not now, but ....... may once have been.
A Baroque painting will not necessarily share much with a contemporary performance piece. Even so they are both considered art. But Baroque works are valuable, so this kind of art has been reissued and reinterpreted by many artists including Elena. That's why she created the Royal Pet series, where she treats the Sphinx cats as characters that lived hundreds of years ago.
Maybe once we were birds. Unreal birds with unimagined shapes and colours, mystical birds of undefined consistency. But we didn't know what to keep the magic in us ......... and no longer know why we are or what we are.
In the end people will choose what represents them, maybe a surrealism in which they would like to live, maybe a solitary world, maybe a world without colour so that we can see the essence, maybe the universe of their soul is so alive and full of life that they prefer simple works without distracting elements like the Flamingo series, or on the contrary they want a world full of colour, flowers and butterflies.
Our faces become neutral and compact. They lose their features because we lose our authenticity and that something that is uniquely ours. In the end we become a sea of people - all the same. Of course we want more but our lack of personality and courage forces us to live without ourselves.
Over the years she has tested several photographic styles, eventually settling on conceptual photography. Often concept photography involves digital manipulation, which is why - even though she is not a big fan of the technique - she learned to work with dedicated image processing software.
The essence of life is the egg.
“I didn't study arts - after a long communist period, being the first young free generation - arts of any kind were not a priority in the educational system, where the emphasis was on exact sciences.”
Someone used to say that we die our deaths living. Most of us don't want to die and some of us even manage to find ways to live on after death. Even through a painting :). But let's not forget that a dead man is a dead man.
She started to enter her work in various competitions, mainly international. Here are some of the results: 35 Awards - Studio Portrait Top 5% best photo in the contest "Flamingo Girl,” 35 Awards - Black and white nudes Top 1% best photo in the contest "Ballerina,” Art Show International Gallery - Solo exhibition, Modellenland2 Magazine – Interview, Fine Art Photography Awards - Fine Art Professional nominee - Royal Cats, Monochrome Photography Awards - Honorable Mention "Hercules,” Monochrome Photography Awards - Honorable Mention "Vestal.”
Portrait of a woman who embraced death but kept the sparkle of life.
She has also won Monovision Awards - Honorable Mention "Wreckage" series, Blank Wall Gallery Greece, Portraits exhibition (physical exhibition), and Monovision Awards -Honorable Mention "Life after death." Blank Wall Gallery Greece - Portraits exhibition (physical exhibition), Blank Wall Gallery Greece - Monochrome exhibition (physical exhibition), Blank Wall Gallery Greece - Black and White exhibition (physical exhibition), and Cip Festival Greece - Conceptual section (physical exhibition).
What would it be like to not know who we are? We think of ourselves as being in a certain way, but there are situations where the other self dominates us and holds us captive in a dimension where we often lose our minds.