THE UNPRODUCTIVE PEACE OF MIND

[ILINCA BERNEA | Curator]

The series of works gathered under the title Daily Routine to Avoid Inner Balance, signed by Dan Voinea, outlines an allusion to an anti-gravitational force, in a psychological sense. The paintings talk about a way of walking on wire in a manner that could defy inertia, about living in a vital tension. This type of dynamic can be conceived as a voluntary process of disturbing the static and unproductive peace of mind, as a ritual of avoiding everything that precedes or permits the crush into habit, automatism, sensory and mental asthenia. The contemporary environments in which one lives are artificial-vital-spaces, surrogate-nature. They condition the experience, make an artefact out of it, colonize it. Dan Voinea's works speak of a type of resistance to this process, of a modus vivendi that could overthrown the pressure of automatic - living. They represent, in fact, a suggestion to a possible attempt to preserve the authenticity of the experience, under the pressure of the daily mixer. Comfort is a germ that undermines the vital resources. Dan Voinea proposes a movement in the opposite direction, a psychological game that undermines, on the contrary, the comfort-zone. The color / shape ratio outlines this tension between what is visible and produces peace and satisfaction and the image that contains a disturbing element, a type of commotion. The restlessness and lack of clarity of form obscure the calm and serenity suggested by colour and this visual paradox keeps alive the perception connected to Heraclitus' revelation that "No man ever steps in the same river twice".