„Painting-specific techniques have been interacted with new visual media - photography, video and more recently with images generated through computer programs or phone applications. Most of the time, artists were attracted to new technologies to develop technically and conceptually on the visual arts scene. Together with the teachers and students of the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design - Iași, we generated and developed experimental / interactive projects using the new painting and conceptual techniques specific to the virtual environment. Thus, three projects, coordinated by the undersigned, were completed, through exhibitions / presentations in the online environment: "Sketch Phone" - project made exclusively from the phone - February - May 2020, "Virtual Plein Air" - painting camp online March 23 - April 4, 2020 and "Virtual Landscapes - Live" October 2020 - January 202. Therefore, the project "Virtual Landscapes - Live" took place over four months, during which students visited / watched, weekly, on the YouTube website, places from different corners of the world such as: Venice - Italy, Tokyo - Japan, Plan City - Florida - USA, Brașov - Romania, Olifants River - South Africa. Therefore, after watching and selecting aspects of the Live landscapes on youtube, the students sketched and painted, in a virtual plein air, numerous works in different painting techniques: pencil, watercolor, charcoal, marker, acrylic, oil, mixed media and digital painting”, he adds.

Alexandra Macarie - "Landscape from Brasov", digital painting

“The works of the exhibiting students "connect" two different areas of study, present in the courses of scenography and experimental drawing. The idea of ​​scenography is particularized - in a sense much closer to the specific (and interest) of the painting section - as a science of signage that can be studied during a virtual journey through museums. In this context, Mr. Crîșmaru proposes, as an area of ​​artistic investigation for experimental drawing, the work according to models offered by the online space. The artistic expression of such an approach to the practice of drawing is one with an important conceptual stake that brings to attention the cultural changes implicit in the presence of virtual space in the life of the contemporary individual. (…) If the traditional practice of drawing generally assumes the logic of a direct visual relationship between the designer and his natural model, the works exhibited in Virtual Simes are made in a different logic. The reality to be represented is, in this case, one already culturally mediated, through video editing practices, through the representational limit of some technologies or through the framing limits of a screen”, concludes Mihail TARAȘI on the project.

Ana Moldovan - "Africa", mixed media

 
The artists involved in this project are Cristiana-Ioana ANIȚĂ, Gabriela- Elena BEJINARU, Simona - Mihaela BÎCLEA, Andreea-Geanina BUDAȘ, Valeria BRAȘOVSCHI, Laura - Ștefana CANDET, Victorița-Alina CUCORANU, Elena-Karina COJOCARU, Roxana - Gabriela FUSA, Valeriu GORGAN, Larisa Elena ILICĂ, Alina MANOLE, Ana-Maria MOLDOVAN, Alexandra MACARIE, Ștefan PAVLIUC, Ana STOICA, Smaranda VÎRNĂ. Project coordinated by Zamfira BÎRZU and Adrian CRÎȘMARU.