Florica Prevenda

Born 1959 Dor Marunt, Romania.
Lives and works in Bucharest, Romania and New York (NY), United States.

«Originating in abstract expressionism and art informel, Florica Prevenda's painting operates on two surprisingly disjunctive levels: one lyrical-figurative, the other moderate-abstract. Both center round a sole motif: the silhouette, the outline of the humanoid face - "The Face without a Face" (to name it this way, since having no name): the mask of the the self, of the inner endlessly multiplicable ego. "The Face without a Face" might be the shadow, the double, the interior with facets and variants; indefinite, cryptic, archetypal, physiognomically un-individualized but pictorially individualized alter ego reverberating emotions. The rich, contradictory expérience intérieure revolves around this exclusive, redundant, obsessive motif. "The Face without a Face" are imprints, emotional grafts, "improvisations" in a musical and Kandinskyan way, sensors of intense feelings: serene, somber, funereal, distressed, subtle, evanescent, febrile, optimistic, tonic (rarely), playful, pathetic, sad, calm, moody.... The ego's reflection remains obscured (subliminal). The obstruction of communication, non-communication, the reclusion (the gazelles, opaque eyes, the sole central motif - the ovoid as a close from equivalent to the geomantic carcer, symbol of reclusion, captivity, dead-end) are altogether painfully suggested. The overwhelming solitude - either constraining, distressing or beneficial, creative, frenzied-bespeaks of the profundity and uniqueness of feelings. The blind mask with the blankness of its gaze acts as a formal matrix of emotions, as pattern of the innerself.» Ruxandra Balaci