About Valentin Gorunescu
Hello World, and thank you for being there!
As a son of Your Magnificence, I would also like to contribute to Your artistic existence right here, on this site, under the eyes of many of your online Children. A few words about me will help, maybe, to explain my artistic choice.
My name is Valentin Gorunescu and I passed through all the stages of schooling up to the Faculty of Automatics and Computers in my native town Craiova, Romania. After the lead years of my country melted down and the gates opened, I decided to follow the sun and, from 1990, I chose to live in faraway lands with ocean and palms, my childhood dream. So, I spent 30 years under the beneficent sun of Morocco, in Tangier mainly, where I was accepted, appreciated, and respected in the midst of a people that is surprisingly similar to us, the Romanian Oltenians.
About 11 years ago I was impressed by the special fine art pieces of a Facebook friend from Réunion Island, and she was kind enough to explain to me what it was all about. It was a special class of digital art that resulted from fractal exploration. I enthusiastically embraced this artistic adventure, feeling like Alice in the Wonderland among plastic expressions of the graphs of some very dry and very cold and complex mathematical functions. It was my own “Open, sesame!” to a cave full of unexpected treasures ready to be picked up.
Even if an engineer in training, I have always felt the need to find a manner capable to express my anxieties of a, let’s say, metaphysical order. I flirted for a long time with poetry, only to establish myself later in a lyricism, perhaps more complete and much more elusive than one of the verses, the lyricism of the images. The fractals experience allowed me to put an idea on an image, to visualize a feeling through colors. I like them because in a soup of infinite possibilities of fractal arrangements one manages to show to the world images that have meaning, for me at least, without however representing describable objects. They remain at the level of pure ideas, of Forms in a platonic sense, that I like to feel touching the skin of my thoughts without the obligation to define them, to tell their next genus and specific difference, even if I can name them in a strictly subjective manner. I am sure that everyone should have the freedom of a different manner to perceive my artworks.
Much of my work, even if it is part of a "realistic" abstract and of such a personal world, where Existence is as I created it, reflects the joy of living in Morocco: sun, light, shadows, light, sand, light, sea, light, light everywhere.
I participated in group exhibitions in several cities in Morocco like Rabat, Casablanca, Fez, Tetouan, but in Bucharest and Madrid also. I took part too in Bologna, Italy, at the launching of a collective novel and of a painting album by the international cultural group Lo Specchio di Alice (Alice's Mirror), of which I am also a part, where my works have aroused interest. This group publishes several times a year an art magazine, Quaderni, a collection of its members’ latest works of literature and graphic art.
This site has the ambition to exemplify all the above.
Our first concern lies in the quality we provide. For art prints this means combining the colors’ accuracy and their time resistance without fading with the quality of the support, acid-free 100% cotton textured canvas in our case, all of them of archival grade. "Archival" means that the product is realized to last for a very long time when stored or displayed in such a way as to preserve its quality.
Our giclée Canvas prints are made in a 12 archival colors inkjet printing process for achieving stunning color accuracy, amazing gradient transitions, perfect depth, and richness, all of which help to create vibrant artworks. As light is the main enemy of print longevity, your artwork will be protected with invisible UV varnish against fading or yellowing so that your printed artwork lasts for more than 70 years!
In order to minimize the delivery costs, we propose to send your chosen canvases unstretched, rolled, protected with acid-free paper and bubble wrap, and fitted inside a very protective PVC tube, closed with two PVC caps and sealed with adhesive tape. Because the stretched canvases are mirror wrapped, meaning that the lateral edges of the framed artwork are the mirrored adjacent edges of the main image, the rolled canvases are the prints of the main images, surrounded by 5" bands corresponding to the reflected zones. The stretcher expert of your artworks will have to take them into account when wrapping the canvas on the wooden frame.
Upon request, your printed artwork will be hand stretched by professionals on a 1" × 2" quality pine wood stretcher frame, paying attention to all the details needed to ensure that every canvas is tightly stretched and that the canvas is wrapping the support frames evenly on each side. The sides of the final artwork give a reflection-like appearance of the edges of the main image, in the so-called mirror wrap. In this case, your canvas comes ready to hang, with sawtooth brackets and wall protection pads on the back, professionally packed in a 3mm hardboard on wood structure case. Not the cheapest solution, but surely the sturdier and the most convenient if you want to have a ready to hang piece of wall art.
