TRAIAN STEFAN BOICESCU graduated The Arts Academy fo Bucharest in 1989, the tapestry section and had Maria Mihaela Blendea as a teacher at his class. He is one of the members of the Plastic Artists Union.
The artist has a rich activity having taken part in important national and international exhibitions where his works were appreciated.
Having a natural inclination towards the little world of animals and plants, towards the primary organism which are almost invisible, the artist studies passionately the microscopic structures, turning them into monumental ones. We could truly believe him to be a well-prepared naturalist if his efforts result weren`t so elegantly decorated and if he didn`t impress us with his chromatic refinement.
The mysterious and fascinating underwater life is a constant theme for Traian Boicescu`s tapestry. By the way they were made and colours that were used, Cephalopod, Gasteropod and Talassa evoke the fragility of those apparently ordinary beings that are still so full of resources for an analyst who is interested in their decorative values. Transparent jelly surfaces, rich rays vibrant arms which are tempting and hypnotic moving constantly at each underwater current, contrastive tones emphasize the artist`s graceful inspiration theme in all its beauty.
When the water withdrew, what was alive petrified but the obvious forms of shells which protected the perishing organic mass remained. The works Fossils and Mineral Structure highlight the ornamental motives, motives full of suggestions that can be offered by the dry depth of the sea to an artist-decorator.
The combination between light yellow, beige, white-grey and black represents the earth, while the underwater micro-organisms are represented by dark and light blue, green and red (by bluish, greenish and reddish).
Traian Stefan Boicescu creates highly evocative tapestry by putting together his scientific and plastic interest.
Adrian Silvan Ionescu
Art Critic
"Cultural Observer" – 2003
Traian Stefan Boicescu proves to be exceptionally receptive to the new experiments and tendencies in art. His works, which often have a delightful violent chromatic, reveal a lyrism that combines the emotional feelings with the rational making-up of the image. The artist is a great painter. The strong and pure colours, spread in a multitude of tones, give a real impression of naturalism. Traian Stefan Boicescu feels at his ease on vast spaces. His complicated geometry of his works tends to a spirituality of scarcely – made forms, their scarcity suggesting the absolute. The subject, the anecdotic tone are subdued to the concise and fascinating game of forms. The drawing is exceptionally important for obtaining the aesthetic effect. The impression of vast spaces that especially his large tapestries give is to be noticed.
Constantin Mateescu
Author
The symbolic meaning of Traian Stefan Boicescu’s tapestries is enhanced by their lyrism, by their compositional clarity, by the elegance of the graphics and by the warm and profound harmony of the colour”.
Dan Grigorescu
Art Critic
"The Art Magazine" – 1989
A constant presence at the exhibitions of both personal and group tapestry lately, Traian Stefan Boicescu due to the attentive balance between background message, form and vocabulary and also due to the classical vibration given by the successive purifications that he uses and that paradoxically improve the forms. The transformation from analytical to synthetic can be seen in the drawing of some shell’s delicate turnings or in some vegetal structure’s expressive forms of spread traces which preserve the initial identity of the motive, the artist being able to give a familiar universe new expressive values. The decoration of his tapestries is enhanced by the refined chromatic which includes either only a reduced number of colours or harmonious combinations.
The pedantry of his works – that can be observed in each element of his textile creations and which doesn’t spoil the plastic pleasure is to be seen again in the artist’s oil paintings. Being especially panoramic landscapes from the Mediterranean area (the artist obviously and unwillingly continuing the good tradition of some Romanian artists from the period of time between the two world wars which he met there), the paintings put together and reveal the visual impressions of a well-trained lyrical spirit. Due to the nervous and angular graphic sketches that he uses to depict the docks and the buildings rising between the sky and the water (compact surfaces of discretely vibrated colour), his oil-painting seem stronger and more consistent.
Aurelia Mocanu
Art Critic
"The Journal of Galleries" – Cultural Radio 2000
A quick glimpse of what is beyond Traian Stefan Boicescu’s creation reveals something that’s constant: Nature as a source of inspiration. Without contemplating it passively, Traian Stefan Boicescu knows how to push the perception of the nature to its minimum point, where the most intimate structures are seeding to be later seen in the plenitude. Like a careful surgeon, the artist takes samples from the organic and anorganic’s intimacy, samples that he later archives into images. In this way, his tapestries highlight a vegetal or mineral microscopic world in which the plausible, real structures are turned into imaginary ones. The artist invents forms, composes them freely, yet with the exactitude of a scientist whose science does not reveal him any secret at all. The titles of his works do not offer only names, but also arguments: Vegetal Structure, Mineral Structure, Cephalopod, Fossils, etc.
Even though it is largely projected, the micro-universe preserves its colours very well-matched, chosen from the primary ones (plus beige and brown), the colours seem to be fake sketches which fill the whole background of the tapestry, in a real depicting exercise.
Nature has been for Traian Stefan Boicescu a prior reference since his studying years. Carefully depicted, nature appears in his paintings as well: a landscapist approach at its limit between figurative and non-figurative, in which the plentiful usage of colour (paste) and the canvas knife enhances the concise and exact depiction.
Horea Avram
Art Critic
The author of remarkable artifacts, the painter and the decorator artist Traian Stefan Boicescu has a profoundly original vision defined by austere symbols, monumentality and by a rational articulation when arranging the compositional elements. His Mediterranean sceneries evoke not only the picturesque feature of his visualizations but particularly a special reading-in of the urban structures metamorphosed in geologic like organisms, which are integrated in an almost celestial harmony. These painterly descriptions are pasted like some monumental concentrations on the colored background where stands the Sea.
Regarding Traian Boicescu’s tapestry work, this is focused on the same points as in his paintings (connected to an aquatic environment). However, his tapestry is special because of its morphological richness and its organic texture. All these features are stylistically refined and they bear the purposed of stressing the cardinal points of the comp.
Gheorghe Vida Art Critic |
