Aida Tomescu - extended interview (Talking with Painters podcast)

Описание: This is a longer version of episode 33 of the Talking with Painters podcast (talkingwithpainters.com) where Aida Tomescu talks with Maria Stoljar about her life and art.
1:27 Childhood in Romania
7:45 Art classes and school
12:35 Teacher and Cezanne’s ‘Card Players’
14:33 First solo show in Romania/measuring success
16:10 Life under the Romanian regime/leaving Romania
20:25 Coming to Australia - 1980
22:00 Settling into Sydney
22:40 Seeing abstract art in Gallery A
25:09 Starting new work
26:25 Realisations – content, working in rotation, painting isn’t arbitrary
33:10 Early work, achieving ‘conviction’ in painting
37:00 Art awards – Sulman, Wynne, Dobell
38:30 Meaning in painting/ambivalence towards commercial success
39:40 Dobell prize diptych ‘Negru III and IV (a candle in a dark room)’
40:00 The ground is the most crucial part of the work/ content
42:10 Colin McCahon’s painting ‘A Candle in a Dark Room’
43:00 Drawing Negru III (A candle in a dark room)/ unity in a work/ when to finish
45:10 Colour – ‘found’ colour – excavating back into the ground
47:10 Sources - step by step process – working with the thread of the painting
50:45 Painting can generate light
51:35 Texture – upcoming show at Jensen Gallery
51:55 ‘Angels and Bed I – IV’
54:15 Nothing mixed with the paint, constructing the painting
54:50 The painting of ‘Bribie’, finalist in 2015 Wynne prize
1:00:45 Energy in painting
1:02:30 Starting a body of work
1:06:00 Rhythm, movement when paint is activated or charged
1:07:24 Working on a number of paintings, cycles of works
1:08:30 Generating energy
1:09:20 Taking a serious decision about a painting
1:10:20 Relationship between accords
1:11:00 Working on larger vis-a-vis smaller paintings
1:11:45 Quintet – white paintings – paintings have an inner life
1:14:00 Drying the painting in time for the show
1:15:05 Brushes and scrapers
1:16:50 Link for the paintings for a show
1:18:20 Studio routine/ size of studio
1:23:00 Teaching and advice to students

🎥 See more videos of Aida Tomescu on this channel:
▶︎Aida Tomescu talks with Maria Stoljar (uncut)    • Aida Tomescu talks with Maria Stoljar (uncut)  
▶︎Aida Tomescu's 2019 show 'The Open Wounds of White Clouds'    • Aida Tomescu's 2019 show 'The Open Wounds ...  
▶︎Aida Tomescu talks with Maria Stoljar in her studio    • Aida Tomescu talks with Maria Stoljar in h...  

🎤 Hear podcast interviews on the Talking with Painters podcast:
▶︎Episode 33 - https://talkingwithpainters.com/2017/...
▶︎Episode 116 - https://talkingwithpainters.com/2021/...
▶︎Episode 63 - https://talkingwithpainters.com/2019/...

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