About the Artist
Cella Negoiescu
Artist Statement
The author is and considers herself a draughtswoman, while color comes to warm her confident strokes. Despite appearances, she is a nonconformist, for in an era when stylization reaches abstraction, she refuses the diffuse, insisting on drawing, respecting the classical lines of portraiture or compositions in which movement or expression conveys various experiences. Her nonconformism manifests subtly in the numerous depictions of horses – majestic animals – some peaceful, gentle, but most often impetuous, portrayed in true cavalcades. Shy at heart, the author reveals – through this preference – her volcanic temperament, the desire to escape from a world of constraints, the restlessness of her horses, their bold gaze "from the hilltop", appearing as scattered thoughts, as dreams, perhaps, yet unrealized…
The World, from the Horses' Side…
…Cella Negoiescu's painting is dominated by people and horses, a splendid division according to nature's gift since the beginning of time. The horses, rather drawn, in the sense of approaching the temptation of the real imaginary, are the ones that externalize the artist's first pictorial myth: without coming from chthonic depths or those of the sea, the horses in Cella Negoiescu's paintings surge impetuously toward marine shores, mixing clouds and waves with their own colors: white, blue, brown, violet, thus forging an inspired database for the other aspects of horses…
— Constantin Dram