Presecan's Soul Touch

My doctorate thesis is the result of a long creation period where nature, the landscape had influenced my personal creation style. It also represents the corollary of a programmatically developed activity, ever since finishing the academic studies and until today. The matter of the landscape as a state of mind is a very vast domain in essence. This work represents a synthesis of my artistic and expression research of the last years. The theme of the doctorate thesis is a development and a continuation of the licentiate’s degree work, implicitly of the postgraduate studies, with a subject which fascinates me and communicates new ways of plastic expression. The essential motivation of choosing this analysis theme comes from my belief on the force of expression of the landscape, the simple message of nature and its echo in our souls, the state of mind conveyed by the landscape (whether on a macro or micro level), as well as from the necessity of recognizing the decisive role of the impres...

noroc bun, 2009!! I want to share with you some thoughts which were in fact the foreward to my catalogue entitled "Traces on Water" . The catalogue was printed in the summer of '08 , with the generous support of my good friend, Radu Taica... The artist himself is nature, as Paul Klee said, a statement equally simple and true. Everything is expressed and derives from the observation of nature, of certain ideas or impressions, experiences or revelations absorbed from nature. My motivation is strictly pictorial; it is the art of transforming a landscape into a wonderful state of mind. The landscape and nature have surrounded me ever since I was a child, they provided me the joy of a deep and true experience and I have always felt connected to the clear atmosphere of the marks of my own memory, rooted in my own space. Abstraction, expression or impression, they all represent the same motif: nature displayed through landscape. Nature is, in my opinion, a foundation...