Presecan's Soul Touch

   “Vis de august” reprezinta un moment de cotitura in viata mea, un punct din care totul renaste si capata o alta dimensiune. Reflexia lui este surprinsa de aceasta serie noua de lucrari, care ilustreaza intr-un mod simplu natura surprinsa prin filtrul sufletului meu. Rezonanta linistii si a frumosului natural din peregrinarile mele pe rauri si ape de munte a creat un peisaj ale carui curgeri de apa ma duc cu gandul inspre armonie si atemporalitate. Visul de august va ramane in sufletul meu ca un izvor nesecat de   lumina, caldura si dragoste. Claudiu, noiembrie 2012 Umbre de vara | ulei pe panza | 80 x 60 cm | 2012

Promenade des Anglais, Nice / oil on canvas / 100 x 100 cm / 2009 There are times which “catch” you, there are landscapes which „enchant” you and atmospheres which “embrace” you in a way which reveals long forgotten memories… such times are summer, the Mediterranean landscape and the atmosphere of the French Riviera. They all meet at this beginning of autumn in Cluj, in my simple “new paintings” or Mediterranean impressions. I can say, without emphasis, that the encounter of these three marks has made me incline towards colour beatitude and the rediscovery of emotions felt long ago. The postimpressionist landscape through the Cezannian example, the fauvism with its lyrical Dufy and tenor Matisse, the joy of life from Renoir and Bonnard’s coloured palette, together with the felt and seen blue , which veils you from everywhere, all these constitute the base of my new paintings. Three elements of the landscape become central through their repetition: the blue of the sea, the red-pin...