Bogdan Mihai Radu

Lugar: Sibiu

Nascido: 1979

Biografia:

Bogdan Mihai Radu is a Romanian-born, London-based painter. He is known for his dramatic, light-filled landscapes, seascapes, floral still-life and vivid, abstract paintings. Radu infuses the passion of Transylvania with the artistic pulse of London. He is one of the most sought after Romanian artists of the moment, who now resides in London. Radu spent his childhood in the iris-filled fields of Transylvania. He discovered early on the pleasures of art, the particular pleasure afforded by the material operations of painting and how, in terms of his own existence, the work of looking at the world, thinking and translating experiences and ideas into images would be his life’s work. He is an artist who, in favouring impasto, makes thematically and physically complex works which, in drawing upon such varied visual and material histories as 19th-century British romanticism and mid-20th-century Atlantic American abstraction (as well as revealing an awareness of other post-war European developments) has fashioned an original, distinct and often personal painterly language that considers place, memory and experience. Radu is deeply influenced by nature and the interplay of light. His art reflects the beauty and complexity of the world around us.