As you jump into the ocean of creation, you dive and then swim, knowing that you have no other option but to fully immerse in it. You cannot ignore the fact that you are connected to something much bigger than you.You need to dive deep inside yourself, and discover ideas and emotions that you recognize, sometimes without ever having experienced them before.
This is the moment when you flash light on the germs of creation that has always been inside you, in the most surprising and hidden areas of your own self, waiting to be discovered and expressed. In solitude and deep introspection, the only way of thinking is with your own mind, by digging deep into yourself and leaving behind anything that does not fuel what yearns to pass through you. And after clearing the waters of thought, you start seeing the colours, the thoughts turn into shapes that your hand translates onto the canvas. You recognize your thought there and witness the way it teaches you how to paint it.
Alone with your work, you then walk barefoot on the floor of your studio, knowing that you can always wash your feet and start again.

Mosaics between art and design

A mixture of  natural stones (marble and travertine), smoky quartz crystals, amethyst, malachite, jade, Murano glass, pearls, brass, copper, 23 karate gold leafe, ruby root…

PAINTING

“Along the creative path I have adopted numerous styles and techniques. The present one defines me to the utmost. It is a style of painting that is initiatic, pure and spiritual. Each element transposed on canvas bears a meaning, nothing is aleatory.”

DESIGN

His art creates an eternal appeal to an imaginary future, a hyper-reality, oneiric, and very cutting- through seduction, in which the mystical allusion does not conflict with the pleasure of the senses.
The topos created by the artist is a reflection of a utopic country, of a space in which the chromatic narrative of a pure existence deserves to be contemplated and ‘”read” just like a Chinese writing, from above down, from the right to the left…

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EVENTS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

SPECIAL PROJECT

Being officially proclaimed, by government order, the “Cultural Year of Dimitrie Cantemir and Ciprian Porumbescu”, 2023 is also the year when the Romanian renowned painter, Ciprian Istrate,

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IS’TOPIA AT WEST GATE

Finally, Is’topia arrives in Bucharest from a provincial town, Piatra Neamț. One of the paintings from the collection travelled to Venice, being exhibited at dedicated

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PRESS

The personal philosophy of the artist is clear: art remains art, regardless of how the others perceive it.

Painter and free man

A’TOPIA

Ciprian Istrate, painter of looks

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