About
Renata Neculoiu grew up in Romania and moved to Germany in 2016, where she still lives and works. She studied medicine and practiced for a long time before daring to fully commit to an artist career. She always has experienced a deep interest in painting even during her studies, where she used to paint human bodies and bone structures with gestural abstraction. Her work shifts constantly between figurative and abstraction purely because of the need to process everyday thoughts about the human mind. The balance between ultimate control and freedom guided her towards oil paint, a medium through which she can express a big range of emotions. While relatively dark, her paintings take you out of the constant overstimulation of life and lead the viewer to a place where feelings can come to the surface. Pierre Soulage, Hans Hartung, Joan Mitchell represent a big part of her influence as an artist, using bold strokes, scraping and layering .
