Dan Maciuca

Biography

Dan Maciuca is a contemporary painter living and working in Cluj, Romania. One could describe Maciuca as a contemporary neo-expressionist painter, balancing figuration and abstraction with expressive strokes of paint and strong impastos.

Born in 1979 in Craiova, Romania, the starting point of Maciuca’s paintings are geometric or figurative elements as backdrops. Doing so, the Romanian painter creates a space which is then filled with his characteristic and confident impasto strokes. The architectural space and its geometrical forms become the setting for his expressive painterly work. Doing so, Maciuca explores utopian urban landscapes as the organic textures of the paint to create a dialogue with the geometric backdrop and the figuration of the initial spaces which is juxtaposed with the abstract qualities of contemporary painting.

Dan Maciuca achieved his MA in Painting at the University of Art and Design in Cluj, Romania, followed by a PhD research in cultural interferences at the same university. Maciuca is one of the main representatives of the contemporary art scene in Cluj, Romania.

Maciuca has been represented by Zorzini Gallery in Bucharest, Romania and Patrick Heide Contemporary Art in London, the United Kingdom. He has participated in exhibitions at institutions such as the Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca, Romania; the Modern Museum in Debrecen, Hungary; the Espace Christiane Peugeot in Paris, France; the Arken Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Art Encounters Foundation in Timisoara, Romania.

Artworks

Last Updated on May 3, 2023