Prezentare Demers Artistic

Nostalgia for paradise
…Liliana Dumitriu is carrying on an artistic research about the idea of medieval garden. She makes use of the tools of the modern man, amongst which stylistic props. She becomes credible through creativity, she expresses herself through sensibility. Her artistic experiences in Europe generate affiliations with the mythology of the field and motivates her fully so that her artistic expression is continuously relaunching an always actual discussion…
The medieval gardens of Liliana Dumitriu have the refinement of an idea and the substance of a dream… The pillars of heaven support with their ineffable columns the pure construction of belief. These kind of images, connected to the angelic physiognomy, generate a magnificent state of communication and communion… The generous paper base which she manually modulates following strictly personal receipts becomes the optimum field where ideas meet the artistic emotions arisen from the abundance of a fertile imagination. These way her paintings become sacred writing, pertinent poems about the magic of the unspoken word…
Through painting, Liliana Dumitriu reveals in fact her inner being whose ideal projection resembles a sensitive self portrait. In her contour lines we identify the substance of an artist who, while synchronizing her steps with others, has the wisdom to remain different. A difference originating in originality, a free spirit which she ceaseless examines. Her always subjective answers guarantee her an unambiguous professional statute, based on a creator conscience whose authenticity honors her.

Valentin Ciucă, “Ateneu” no. 44, Iulie 2007